AFTERMATH
Written by Harold Owen.
Stock no. 1831079
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

William Harold Owen was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen. Harold Owen's notable trilogy Journey from Obscurity closed with the death of his elder brother Wilfred in France in November 1918. This volume continues the story and is a self-portrait, having a high degree of truth and sensitivity that characterized the earlier works; as a picture, in vivid painter's prose, of aspects of English life in the twenties, it stays in the mind. Brown cloth boards, black title label with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 199 pages. ISBN: 0192111957. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Also includes an addressed postcard from Harold Owen (blank). Base of cloth boards has a thin line of fading, light damp mark to base of front board at spine edge. Text block lightly browned with a few small marks. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper has a corresponding damp stain to verso (not visible to front), is edge-rubbed and scuffed.

BEN JONSON A LIFE
Written by Ian Donaldson.
Stock no. 1330912
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2011. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A vivid biography drawing out on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson, revealing him as a writer whose work strikingly forsees modern age. Black boards, metallic blue title to spine. Pink endpapers. 533 pages. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780198129769. A fine copy.

THE ORIGINS OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1880-1900
Written by Henry Pelling.
Stock no. 1330829
Published by Oxford University Press. 2nd 1965. Very good condition.

Second edition (first published by Macmillan). Blue cloth, git title to spine. 256 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light and neat pencil annotations to page margins. Light foxing to textblock.

KING GEORGE III AND THE POLITICIANS: THE FORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 1951-2
Written by Richard Pares.
Stock no. 1830945
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1954. Very good condition.

This study of British politics from 1760 to 1832 deals with the reasons why people went into politics, the functions of party and patronage and the balance of power between King, Lords and Commons. George III is the central figure of the work and the author discusses the King's conception of his mission and his struggles with "that hydra faction". Reprinted lithoghraphically from corrected sheets of the first edition of 1953. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 214 pages including index. A few tiny air bubbles between cloth and boards. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Top rear edge of board knocked. Text block browned with a few minor foxspots. Endpapers browned. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots mainly to prelims.

OXFORD ART JOURNAL: EARLY MODERN HORROR SPECIAL ISSUE VOLUME 34 NUMBER 3
Written by Maria H. Loh; David Young Kim; Bronwen Wilson; et al.
Stock no. 1830924
Published by Oxford University Press. 2011. Nearly fine condition.

A series of essays on the relationship between early horror and art. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. A few minor marks to rear cover else very nice copy, little read.

BIGGLES FLIES EAST
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330777
Published by Oxford University Press. 1952. Fair condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. 256 pages. Covers are marked, grubby and edge rubbed. Endpapers are browned. Heavy foxing to textblock, also affecting page margins.

BIGGLES FLIES EAST
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330772
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Almost very good condition.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. 256 pages. Covers edge worn, tiny knock to front fore-edge. Split to base of spine has been glued. Inscription in ink and a small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. Textblock is very slightly grubby else contents clean.

BIGGLES HITS THE TRAIL
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1330771
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Fair condition.

Green boards, gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. A reading copy only sold W.A.F.

THE RESCUE FLIGHT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1330716
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1953. Almost very good condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 248 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Top edge of textblock is slightly grubby, fore-edge has a few small spots. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Contents clean.

SYLLOGE OF COINS OF THE BRITISH ISLES FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE PART I: ANCIENT BRITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON COINS
Written by Philip Grierson.
Stock no. 1830882
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

The first fascicule of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles contains the Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, numbering 216-777 respectively. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. xix and 70 pages inlcuding index. Boards lightly scuffed, very light fading to spine. Text block and endpapers browned. Contents clean.

MODEL AIRCRAFT FOR BOYS
Written by W.E. Johns; W. Rigby. Illustrated by W. Rigby.
Stock no. 1330552
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1935. Good condition.

Foreword by Captain W.E. Johns (editor of Popular Flying and author of Biggles). Pictorial boards. 96 pages. B/w illustrations. Covers are grubby and worn. Backstrip is browned and has possibly been re-glued. Some light foxing but contents generally very good.

CASTLES AND CANNON: A STUDY OF EARLY ARTILLERY FORTIFICATIONS IN ENGLAND
Written by B.H. St. J. O'Neil.
Stock no. 1830769
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This study, published posthumously, describes the introduction of gunpowder, the earliest guns and their development, and the ways in which the castle designers sought to meet the new threat to their foritifcations which resulted from the introduction of battering ordnance. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xix and 121 pages including index. A few minor marks and scuffs to boards. Foxing to endpapers and text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has some foxing, is edge-rubbed, faded to spine and grubby.