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GEORGE III LORD NORTH AND THE PEOPLE 1779-80
Written by H. Butterfield.
Stock no. 1330872
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 407 pages (including index). Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock.

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THE LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Ernest Newman.
Stock no. 1831001
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition.

Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in the whole history of western music. Four volumes, complete. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spines. ISBN: 0304297631. Spines are lightly darkened. Some light scuffing to boards. Text blocks are a little dusty/grubby. Contents clean. A nice set.

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CHARLES JAMES FOX: A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE
Written by Loren Reid.
Stock no. 1831000
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful, complex and controversial figures of eighteenth-century England. The book grows out of a professional interest in Fox's talents as a parliamentary speaker. The scope, therefore, is that of a biography, with Fox's attainments as a speaker coming to the foreground at frequent intervals. Light brown cloth boards, dark brown title block with silver title to spine. xiv and 475 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to flaps. Musty odour present.

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THE SECOND TORY PARTY 1714-1832
Written by Keith Grahame Feiling.
Stock no. 1830999
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. vii and 451 pages including index. Boards are faintly mottled by damps. Text block browned and has minor foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents clean.

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LLOYD GEORGE: FROM PEACE TO WAR 1912-1916
Written by John Grigg.
Stock no. 1830998
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The third volume of John Grigg's highly acclaimed biography of Lloyd George. Covering the period 1912-16, From Peace to War begins when Lloyd George is at the pinnacle of success and achievement. Yet in the following two years he is plunged into turmoil in both his personal and political life. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 527 pages including index. ISBN: 0413466604. Boards clean. Slight lean to spine. Text block a little grubby and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is foxed to flaps, lightly browned and lightly scuffed, slightly faded to spine.

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ERNEST BEVIN: FOREIGN SECRETARY 1945-1951
Written by Alan Bullock.
Stock no. 1830997
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1983. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Third volume of The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin. The events of Bevin's term as Foreign Secretary include the first phase of the Cold War, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Alliance, the division of Germany, the Schuman Plan, the creation of Israel, the independence of India and Pakistan, and the Korean War. Light blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and 896 pages including index. ISBN: 0434094528. Pale mottling to boards. Text block grubby and fairly heavily foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and a few pages internally else clean. Price-cut, dustwrapper is foxed to flaps, lightly faded to spine and a little scuffed.

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ANTHONY EDEN
Written by Robert Rhodes James.
Stock no. 1830996
Published by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A portrait of Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain's foreign secretary in the 1930s, who held the same position under Churchill during World War II and succeeded the latter as prime minister in 1955. A sympathetic but not uncritical historiography. Purple cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xiv and 665 pages including index. ISBN: 0297789899. Boards clean, light rubbing to base of spine. Text block a little grubby with a few small foxspots. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, minor foxing to flaps.

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MACMILLAN 1957-1986: VOLUME II OF THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Written by Alistair Horne.
Stock no. 1830995
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1989. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A masterly account of Harold Macmillan's Prime Ministership (1957 - 63) and emergence as one of the most influential international statesmen of the 20th century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 741 pages including index. ISBN: 0333496213. Boards are clean. Text block a little grubby to lower edge and a little foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and last few pages. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily foxed to flaps and a little scuffed.

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BILL CLINTON: MASTERING THE PRESIDENCY
Written by Nigel Hamilton.
Stock no. 1830994
Published by Century. 1st 2007. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An insightful, prodigiously researched, and wonderfully readable account of Bill Clintons first term in office. It shows how a well-meaning but naive new president failed to assert true leadership in his first two years, and then illustrates how, in an astonishing act of self-reinvention, the president turned defeat into victory. A gripping tale of hubris and redemption-and a chronicle of one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern American politics. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. XV and 766 pages including index. ISBN: 9781844132096. Light crease to top & tail of spine. Minor white spots to boards. Text block browned. A few minor foxspots present. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased and scuffed.

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ANGLICAN ATTITUDES: A STUDY OF VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES
Written by A.O.J. Cockshut.
Stock no. 1830993
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In the second half of the 19th century the Church of England suddenly found that its official religious monopoly was being seriously threatened. At a time of growing challenge from the Roman Church on the one hand and Agnosticism on the other, Anglicans were thrown into confusion by three celebrated controversies - the Gorham case, Essays & Reviews, and the Colenso case. A most readable account of the events which ended in the body of Anglican Bishops openly defying the Privy Council. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 128 pages including index. Boards clean, top corners bumped. Text block browned with minor foxing. Neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots to prelims and endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed and a little grubby, worn at corners, lightly faded to spine.

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JOHN STUART MILL: VICTORIAN FIREBRAND
Written by Richard Reeves.
Stock no. 1830992
Published by Atlantic Books. 1st thus 2008. Very good condition.

A biography of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. Richard Reeves covers Mill's political and social activism in detail. Mill identified problems with Victorian London, and he wanted to fix them. He was driven to make Victorian London a better place with less poverty, less overcrowding, and more prosperity. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. 616 pages including index. ISBN: 9781843546443. Light reading creases (vertical) to spine. Corners a little creased and lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Some foxing to contents else clean.

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PERSONALITIES AND POWERS
Written by Lewis Namier.
Stock no. 1830991
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition.

The author examines the various factions and interest groups that existed within the British political system, and how they interacted with each other to shape policy and decision-making. Burgundy cloth boards, silver title to spine. vii and 157 pages. Spine very lightly faded, a few minor marks to boards. Foxing to text block and page margins. Lengthy inscription in ink to front endpaper (neat). A few foxspots to prelims and a tiny closed tear to lower edge of prelims.

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