History And Biography from Duck Cottage Books

Franklin, PA: Major General Charles Miller, 1908. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 380 8vo. Half leather on brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif and title to front board, decorative end papers, 207 pages. "Done into English by Mary Louise Hendee". Condition notes: Leather scuffed, otherwise clean and sound.

Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 768 4to. Octavo/quarto borderline in size. Pictorial dust jacket, red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 205 pages; illustrated from photographs, graphs, drawings etc- "it represents in maps, charts and statistics a thoughtful reinterpretation of the Nazi State" (from front flap). Condition notes: A previous seller… Read more about this item

London: HMSO, 1970. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1946 8vo. Co-editors Douglas Dakin and M E Lambert. From a private collection. Dust jacket with protective wrapper, usual buff-coloured, unclipped, black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 948 pages. Condition notes: Dust speckling to external edges of text block, otherwise excellent condition.

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 400 8vo. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 286 pages, previous owner's name dates 1938 to front free end paper. Condition notes: A clean, sound copy.

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 393 8vo. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 299 pages, ex-library with Boots ending Library remnants to front board and occasional stamp of West Suffolk Education Committee to margins. Condition notes: Boards rubbed and bumped, binding pulling at rear hinge, note on… Read more about this item

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1933. 2nd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 402 8vo. Co-author Stephen Gaselee. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 335 pages, black and gold label of The Times Book Club to rear paste down. Previous owner's name dated 1938 to front free end paper. Condition notes: A clean,… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1963. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1011 8vo. Co-editor Charles H Bennett; edited from the original manuscript; published in collaboration with Yale University. Pictorial dust jacket, grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, map across end papers, 520 pages, illustrations. First thus, with a new Preface, new illustrations and maps. Large octavo in size. Condition… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 2169 8vo. Three volumes, complete. Blue cloth-covered boards, paper labels to spine. Volume One 1710-1727, Volume Two Walpole and the First Parliament of George the Second, Volume Three (no sub-title). Condition notes: Boards variously soiled and/or showing differential fading, some spotting/tanning to prelims, soiling to fore edges, main… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1967. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 516 8vo. Co-author Heinrich Fraenkel. Sub-title: Mass extermination in the twentieth century: the legacy of guilt. Red-brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 283 pages plus Notes (to p 309) and Appendices (to 321), Selected Book-List (to 332) and Index (to 339). Several illustrations, including… Read more about this item

London: William S Orr and Co, 1881. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1846 4to. Title continues: "From the restoration of King Charles the Second to the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne. A New Edition, with Historical and Biographical Notes" . Complete in one volume. Publisher's brown (?) cloth-covered boards, gilt titles… Read more about this item

London: Elek Books, 1956. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 541 8vo. Yellow dust jacket, black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 338 pages including Appendix and Index, illustrations from photographs. An account of the attempt to exterminate all the Jews of Europe told from the Nazi's own surviving documents. Condition notes: Stamped "showroom copy" to front free… Read more about this item

London: Frank Cass, 1962. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 423 8vo. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 202 pages including index. An historical account- chapter headings include International Co-operation in the Nineteenth Century ("Slave Trade, Opium Trade, Arms and Liquor" etc), Customs Unions in the Nineteenth Century, International Co-operation after Two World Wars. Condition… Read more about this item

Manchester: William Alcock, 1860. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 759 8vo. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, blind-stamped decoration to boards with gilt motif to front board, frontis portrait of a young Queen Victoria, 428 pages. Ownership label of a Diocesan library, with donor's name, to front paste down; no other library traces. Condition notes: Boards knocked and rubbed, some… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Kelly, 1826. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1551 4to. Full leather, gilt decoration. The title page for the 1817 edition has been added during binding. Condition notes: Leather worn and rubbed, loss of spine for bottom one or two inches. Front board loose- end papers worn through but board held by cords. Plates and battle… Read more about this item

London: Allen & Unwin, 1966. Hardback. Good/Good. 965 8vo. The 1948 revised and enlarged edition. Cream-coloured dust jacket (unclipped), covered in transparent film which has been stuck down to the boards, 500 pages including index. Condition notes: Light spotting to external page edges and end papers.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1945. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 244 8vo. First English edition. The Author's Preface describes this as "the first detailed eye-witness report on the extermination of approximately five million Polish and other European Jews in th German Gouvernement-General". Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Green cloth-covered boards, 280 pages. Condition notes: Boards bumped at corners, a… Read more about this item

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 605 8vo. The book sets out to "describe the inception, organisation, and administration of the Nazi foreign labor program and the relationship of the program to the Nazi war economy and government". It uses captured documents as well as material published during the war. Grey… Read more about this item

Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1946. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 377 4to. Speeches made in the University of Birmingham over the years 1934-1946 by the Public Orator, Graeme Richie, in praise of those being awarded honorary degrees. Grey paper-covered boards decorated with the University arms, black spine strip, portrait of Richie tipped in as Frontispiece, 101… Read more about this item

London: Oxford, 1940. 3rd. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 511 8vo. Ex-library: bookplate of Adams Grammar School, with 'Withdrawn' stamp, and shelf mark to spine. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 360 pages. Condition notes: Some wear and scuffing to boards, pages unevenly trimmed, unmarked apart from library markings.

London: Blackwell, 1988. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1356 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket, green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, paginated i-xiv then 480 pages, related newspaper cuttings left laid in. Condition notes: Pencil price to front free end paper, otherwise almost as new.