England

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. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w & 20 color plates of which 4 are folding. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy with 280 works illustrated and described, chronology, bibliography, exhibition record.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 130 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cloth cover boards, gold gilt title on spine. Some tanning to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. "Humor, drama and beauty woven out of memories of a fantastic boyhood by Hugh Falkus..."

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charls Black, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Victor Ambrus throughout. Decorated cover boards, cover boards slightly warped, but no moisture damage present. Back endpaper has an horizontal air-bubble. pages clean and unmarked with exception of half title page with has a small brown smudge. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned from age. Light tanning to edges. Binding tight. Spine straight. Here is the story of the British people, written by an author renowned as 'the young reader's historian' and illustrated by an artist who is amongst the most talented book illustrators of our time.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. 345 pages + 31 pages publisher's ads. Frontispiece and title page starting to separate from binding. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover.

Hardcover. New York , G. G Putnam's Sons , 1st , 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages hardcover. Blue cloth bindings. Black and white illustrations at chapter headings. Illustrated flyleaves and end pages. Top edge decorative stain. Gilt decoration on spine and cover. Some shelf wear and soiling on front and back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st thus, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Material previously published in The Village Book, and The Labouring Life, reworked in the light of the author's later experience. Chapters include: The badger dig; The darkening of the doorway; The well; The mystery of a damp cottage; An old-world courting; A village David and Goliath; The old cob cottage; The Ackymals; Billy Goldsworthy's barn; P.C. Bullcornworthy; Cemetery or burial ground?; Billy Goldsworthy's cow; The Zeale brothers; The linhay on the downs; The fox in the moonlight.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 449 pages. Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century, revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in seventeenth-century England. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Tate Gallery, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Wonderfully written and illustrated account of the work of the Bloomsbury artists, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. Contains detailed chronologies of their lives. Catalogue entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movement's wider social, economic, and political. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears, 191 pages with index. Dr. Worcester presents a theory of satire, surveying the whole field since Dryden's Discourse of the Origin of Satire and drawing illustrations not only from English but from classical, French, German, and American literature. At the same time he makes a penetrating study of irony and its uses. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. 26 illustrations in color, and 420 in black and white. Originally published in 1979. John Harris was one of England's leading Architectural Historians at the time this book was written. He was curator of the Drawing Collection for RIBA. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Each section introduces a period such as: the Age of Estate Cartographers and the Garden Converstations, The Country House and Sporting Art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and Others, Caneletto and the Architectural Topographers, Gainsborough and the Picturesque, The Art of Turner and Constable. Harris comments on the artists , their style and pictures.

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12mo. 193 pages, beige pictorial paper covered boards, maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, Folding plate in front. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket, 111 pages. Wonderful b&w illustrations by Ronald Searle. The first collaboration between these Atkinson and Searle, a look at the 'new poor' in the London of the 1950's. Taking Henry Mayhew's 19th century work 'London Labour and London Poor' as their guide, the writer and artist take a perceptive, compassionate and subtly humorous, look at how the burden of poverty has shifted into some surprising quarters - including a look at a literary exile, an aging actress, enclyopedia salesman, ice cream seller and more. Shelfworn copy, but sound with a light ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London , Rupert Hart=Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, 365 pages. An informal military history of the North American continent. The two major campaigns covered being the war with France for the possession of Canada & the American War of Independence. Service discipline in the British Army meant a bloody back, hence the nickname for the soldiers of the time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Osprey Military Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 160 pages. The Boer War devastated the South African economy and left a legacy of bitterness. It saw the invention of the concentration camp and a new style of guerilla warfare. This history of the campaign includes artwork of maps, weapons and uniforms, with contemporary photography from the period. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 292 pages, b&w plates. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 233 pages. The worship of hearth and home that culminates in the nineteenth century, and which survives in our own lives, is not fully explicable without the pressures that the modern city has brought to bear upon it. Alexander Welsh treats 'The City of Dickens' both as a historical reality and as a metaphor that provides a context for values and purposes expressed by the English novel. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 477 pages. Original edition of this major study of British policies toward its North American colonies by a premiere early 20th century historian of Colonial America, Charles M. Andrews. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Color and b&w plates throughout. This groundbreaking architectural history examines what people actually wanted in their institutional and private patronage over the last two centuries as opposed to what architects and theorists thought they should want - as seen through the prism of Oxford's principal building contractor and craft practitioner, Symm & Company. Clean, bright copy.