English History from Berthoff Books

Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price… Read more about this item

McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to… Read more about this item

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 192 pages, with index, bibliography, list of dramatis personae, diagram of the Souls circle. Covers the influence of this group as "an elite in English society, 1885-1930", which included influentials such as Lord Curzon and PM Arthur Balfour. Wide trade paperback (7-3/8" x 9-5/8"), practically no visible wear. Errata slip… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 455 pages, with index. First printing of American first edition. Political, social, cultural history of the 20th century interwar period in the UK. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"), dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to crown/heel, cocked, light soil to boards, edges/end papers… Read more about this item

Random House, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with index and chronological table. Illustrated with b&w photos on 16 double-sided plates. Biography first published in the UK one year after Mountbatten's assassination in 1979; this is American first edition. 8vo, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine, sunned about extremities, faint… Read more about this item

André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned.… Read more about this item

Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 330 pages, with index. Written by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. Illustrated throughout with color photos and diagrams. Sets forth a vision of Earth's future, humankind's relationship with Nature. Portrait-book size (7-3/4" x 10"), green cloth with gilt lettering… Read more about this item

J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 339 pages, with index, bibliography, reference notes. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2"), green paper over boards with blue quarter, rubbed gilt lettering on spine, green end papers, one spot of heavy wear along fore-edge of front board, text block chipped… Read more about this item

Ballantine Books, 1976. Soft cover. Good. 624 pages, with index, genealogical table, source references. Second printing (1980) of Ballantine edition; book first published 1975. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Biography of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Prince of Wales/King Edward VIII, who abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, reading… Read more about this item

Wideview Books, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 470 pages, with index. Illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos. First Wideview edition of book originally published 1976. A cultural history of the influence of Harold Acton, Brian Howard and their circle on British life between the wars. Trade paperback, light wear, faint foxing to top edge. Names of former… Read more about this item

Penguin Classics, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. 364 pages, with Index, Genealogies of English Kings, Translator's Introduction which includes life of the Venerable Bede. Translation by Leo Sherley-Price first issued 1955, revised in 1968 by R.E. Latham; this is 10th printing of 1968 edition. Mass-market paperback, scant wear, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked. … Read more about this item

Claymont Communications, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 383 pages. New American edition of autobiography of the British intelligence operative and associate of Gurdjieff, first published 1961. Trade paperback, minor edgewear, edges have splotchy brown stains as from liquid (but pages not wavy). Name of former owner written on inside front cover, old price in pencil on half-title, interior pages… Read more about this item

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages, with index. First printing. Seven b&w illustrations (art reproductions), also maps. History of 18th-century insurgency of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica. 8vo, brown cloth with orange lettering on spine, dark green end papers; the book is cocked, but has minimal shelf… Read more about this item

Lear Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 90 unnumbered pages, with note from the publishers. Each engraving has Hogarth's commentaries, taken from an early edition of his complete works. Imperial 8vo (8-1/2" x 11"), tan paper over boards with rust-colored quarter, black lettering, wear at crown and heel, light foxing to end papers and the first couple of… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 263 pages, with index, bibliography, list of mentioned flora and fauna, chronological and genealogical tables of people who owned Barton's End since 1556. 33 illustrations - line drawings of flora and fauna, some garden-layout diagrams. 8vo, dove gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, boards… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 388 pages, with glossary of common elements in English place-names, select bibliography; plus 33 pages of front matter including an introduction explaining the etymology of place-names, list of abbreviations, maps of the counties of England before and after 1974. From the DJ: "Each entry includes the modern county… Read more about this item

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / George Braziller, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 184 pages, with Introduction, Biographical Summary, Further Reading list. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello, then-director of the MMA. Reynolds was a British art historian and museum curator, expert on Constable's work.This book was published in conjunction with an MMA exhibition of the… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books (Random House), 1976. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with Subject Index, Index of Persons and Places. Seventeen b&w illustrations (reproductions of artworks, maps, etc.) in an eight-page section. Looking at a time under Hanoverian rule and Whig political dominance, when crimes like deer-stalking incurred the death penalty, the book "radiates into high politics and low, challenging… Read more about this item