Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.
Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co, Reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by H. Alken throughout. Binding cracked between rear end paper and front fly leaf. Foxing to top edge and rear paste down and end paper. Some edge wear to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Basil Blackwell, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Thirty-one indexed unpaginated plates, including frontispiece. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "Sir Muirhead Bone, the illustrator of Came To Oxford, was Britain's first officially appointed war artist, serving in both the First and Second World Wars. He is recognized as well for his portraits of Joseph Conrad, his watercolours and drawings of Old Spain, and his works recording the damage and reconstruction in his beloved England following the wars." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Chipping, wear, tanning, and staining on dust jacket. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. A few pages with tiny tears along bottom edge. Light foxing on all edges. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Reprint, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All edges gilt. Mustard cloth covers with beveled edges. Elaborate gilt pictorial design. Gravure plates, b&w line drawings and text illustrations by Edmund Garrett and Chas Copeland. Patterned end papers. Front hinge starting. Shelf worn cover. Spine ends worn. Blank prelim page missing. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, British Library Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w drawings by Paul Hogarth throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Z. Walck, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Jane Paton. Bright dust jacket with light wear.
Hardcover. London, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1st, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated gray cloth with three-color design. 191 pages illustrated in color and b&w by George Morrow. No date but appears to be 1920s. Nice visual reference for costumes of the period. Light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.
Hardcover. London, George Newnes Ltd., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, black, white and gilt decoration with Speaker of the house in profile on cover, 378 pages. Illustrated with text cartoons throughout and a color frontis by Gould. Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (1842 -1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. Owner's signature on blank prelim page, cloth is worn at spine edges with some fraying, title on spine faded. Binding is sound, tight.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design. Color frontispiece portrait of the famous English architect. Illustrated with 12 color plates, 91 b&w plates (some fold-outs). Top edge gilt, clean copy with the scarce light blue dust jacket that has light edgewear with coat-of-arms on front panel, title on spine.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Blue cloth covers with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. Etching frontispiece by Francis Walker and 119 b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on blank page opposite preface, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Lund Humphries, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w and some color illustrations. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, British Heritage Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages, 64 color plates by Helen Allingham. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1909 in the UK. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Softcover. With 393 plates, 366 in color. Wrapper very good, has previous bookstore label on back cover (see image). Pages clean. Binding tight. The plates from William Blake Trust's Collected Edition are brought together in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the Blake scholar David Bindman.
Hardcover. Great Britain, The Observer, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorative endpapers. In excellent shape. Binding tight, clean inside and out.
