Hardcover. London, The Fine Arts Society, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages, hardcover. Decorated boards with gilted top text block. Illustrated by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Homes and memorials of the founders of Virginia, the New England states, and Pennsylvania. Also includes the universities of Harvard and Yale, the first president of the United States and other illustrious Americans. Fading and edgewear to spine. Light bumping to corners with mild fraying. Moderate spotting to text block edges. Weak spine at front endpapers. Unmarked. A clean copy.

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.

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; top spine worn, 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. Baltimore MD, Penguin Books, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 234 pages, 192 b/w plates, glossary, bibliography. Describes the architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to the post-Waterloo Greek and Gothic Revivals. Among the great names of those centuries were Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, and John Nash. During the same period were built Hampton Court, Hatfield, the new St Paul's, the City Churches, the graceful London Squares, and the crescents and terraces of Bath. In addition to the main text there are two long appendices, one on Scottish architecture and the other on the architecture c f the Thirteen Colonies. Numerous plans, the majority of which have been especially drawn for this book, and over three hundred half-tone illustrations form an integral part of the author's account. Clean 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. London, Cassell & Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards stamped in black, 82 pages with dozens of gorgeous b&w pen line drawings by Moreland. "The face of London is changing so rapidly that the time cannot be far distant when much that is recording these pages will have disappeared". As this was written in 1931, the anticipated changes came of course much sooner and much more dramatically than had been anticipated. The author has depicted Dickens' storied locations as they appeared when written. Previous owner's inscription, name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt-stamped light gray cloth with Dickens' escutcheon in red & gold on cover, top edge gilt, frontispiece photographic profile of Dickens & 18 B&W photographic illustrations. Nice retrospective of London in reference to Charles Dickens life, book provides a brief look at Dickens' literary life, manner and customs, history of the area and more. 300 pages including index,

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 , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Dust jacket with light wear, chipping.on dust jacket. 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, Blackie & Son Limited, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon leather stamped with an ornate gilt design. Two titles from the publisher's "Beautiful England" series, here rebound in a single volume. Each 64 pages with 12 color plates by E.W. Haslehurst. Decorative endpapers. ribbon marker. Bookplate on a blank prelim page, spine leather faded to brown, but gilt decorations and lettering are bright. Two related photographic cards laid in.

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. Norfolk UK, Black Dog Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Author signed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "These essays, written over a 30-year period and published to celebrate the Benson Medal for Literature awarded to Ronald Blythe in 2006, offer Blythe's lingering comment on his life as a writer."

Hardcover. London, England, Adam & Charles Black, 1st Larger Size Edition, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Previous owner's book plate and pen marks on front endpapers. Front hinge cracked, binding still good. Red decorated cover boards, gilt title on spine (faded). Pages have some foxing and tanning from age. Illustrations still very vivid and in excellent condition. Artist memoir and beautiful look at her life in England, painted by her own hand. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.

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. London, John Murray, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with white lettering, decoration. Delightfully illustrated history of interior design and furniture. 48 pages, 2-color art throughout by the authors. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped in frontis by Leon Underwood. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover label, spine label mostly gone, stamp on front fly leaf. 150 pages. At the age of 12, Woodward (1896-1961) had begun working in a London factory, and just one year later she had left home to take up another factory job making collars for men's shirts. Later she took positions as a receptionist and a freelance journalist, and allied herself with various socialist, suffrage, and free-thought groups. Jipping Street is "a graphic and absorbing account of growing-up in a London slum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... [it is] a psychic reconstruction of childhood rather than a chronological narrative".

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. B&w and color plates throughout. Brown/maroon boards with gilt lettering. Gilt edges. Ribbon bookmark. 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. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 144 pages. B&w drawings throughout by Paul Hogarth. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Omnibus Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 176 pages. While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life emerged in October 1965 and, over the next fifteen months, would document the capital's action at its absolute zenith. With imagery from the likes of David Bailey, Duffy and Terence Donovan, designs from Peter Blake, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe and fledgling artist Ian Dury plus words and opinions from those riding high on the city`s cutting-edge, London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with a white label on front cover, blue cloth spine, 92 pages, b&w illustrations by Ernest Shepard. . The verses and pictures in this book first appeared in 'Punch' magazine. Edge wear, rubbing, light soiling to boards. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf and bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

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, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale red cloth stamped with black lettering, 112 pages. Color frontis, 119 b&w plates, endpapers map. Lacks dust jacket. clean copy.

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 & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children

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.

Hardcover. Meadville PA, The Chautauqua-Century Press, reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white decorations on front cover, beveled edges, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other b&w drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. 211 pages, clean copy.

Oxford UK, Penrose and Palmer, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light tan stapled wrappers, 64 pages with 100 b&w photos. Center spread map. Bright, unmarked copy with bookseller's small sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, 246 pages. With Illustrations in color and black and white by Charles Simpson. Small ownership signature on front fly otherwise clean, bright copy.

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.