British History from VFOL UsedBooks

The Special Operations Executive was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germany. Dust jacket in quite good condition. Burgundy cloth covers in very good condition; includes 4 maps in back pocket. No marks.

Preface By The Marquess Of Salisbury And Ava. Blue cloth with gilt on front cover and spine; shelf-worn on edges. Front hinge exposed slightly; pages still quite tightly bound. Previous owner's notes & underlines in text are witty additions. A few minor marks in the text.

Green cloth boards with paste-on pictorial on front. Cover shelf worn, especially top spine. Missing last page. Penciled-in note on front endpaper. Includes 2 fold-out maps at end of book, 11 black & white photographs.

Collector's Edition. EASTON PRESS books are among the highest quality leather bound books ever produced. Bound in full genuine leather with hubbed spine, accented with 22kt gold lettering and designs, printed on archival paper (acid neutral) with gilded edges, smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Lustrous silk moire endpapers. A silk page marker is sewn into the binding. This book,… Read more about this item

Easton Press Collector's Edition. Nine of ten in set, V.10 missing. Bound in genuine leather, hubbed spine with gold accents and monarch's coat of arms on front board. Tightly bound thread sewn pages, gilded page ends. Watered silk end sheets. Permanent satin ribbon page marker. Color image of monarch on frontispiece. Easton Press nameplates enclosed and unattached (x nine).

Multicoloured, mottled boards with brown leather corners and spine. Spine in compartments, title in gilt on red and date in gilt on black plus gilt rules and decorations. Tightly bound: cracked front and back where boards meet binding but still solid. Front fixed end paper has stamp: Burden, The Hill, Clevedon, Som and original owner's crest and name: Sir William… Read more about this item

Decorative blue boards with black lettering. Blue cloth boards a bit rubbed. Previous owner's name on 1st page. Binding intact with some cracking. Foreword by John Galsworthy. "In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for soldier and sailors who have lost their limbs in the war". King & Queen portraits and 10 color plates are loose but all are… Read more about this item

Green cloth covers with black lettering, stained on spine and front. Binding is secure and text block foxed. Handwritten note on page 42 -- "A good story". Stories contributed by authors as J.M. Barrie, A. Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling. 12 tipped-in color plates, reproductions of paintings by various well-known British artists. Numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text,… Read more about this item

Blue cloth boards with black lettering are a bit rubbed. Binding solid.Text block is age-toned. Foreword by John Galsworthy. "In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for soldier and sailors who has lost their limbs in the war." Stories contributed by authors such as J.M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ernest Thompson Seton. 12 tipped-in color plates,… Read more about this item

Original tricolor stiff-card wrappers. Tightly bound with square corners. 69 pages of plates: illustrations, plans, portraits. Introduction by Christopher Hussey. Life and work of celebrated eighteenth century English landscape architect Capability Brown. 262 pages. Signed by author.

With Foreward by G.M. Trevelyan, O.M. Bright teal cloth boards with gilt Latin stamps on the cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped in protective mylar has some chips on the edges. Top edge of the text block has blue stain. The binding is secure. The text is age toned, clean, clear and unmarked. 400 pp

Dark navy/black boards with gilt print on the spine. The bindings are like new except for a loose top end (1'-2") of the spine on Vol. 1A The text blocks are clear and unmarked except for some dark smudges on the top edges from storage on a dusty shelf. Exlibris marked with small tag "from the library of.." 1A Roman… Read more about this item

Not dated presumed first edition Everyman's Library - Five volume set - Reign of Elizabeth. Red cloth boards with imprint on the cover show wear of time. Gilt illustration on the spine is faded. No D/J as issued. Illustrated end papers. The binding is detaching from the spine. Volume II has some small cracks in the gutter. Volume III has… Read more about this item

The black cover boards with sliver text on the spine are in like new condition except for slight bumping on the top of the spine. The intact dust cover shows some mild fading and wear. The binding is tight and secure. The text block is clean and unmarked with very light foxing of the pages. 37 black & white… Read more about this item

Very Collectible British edition, 2nd reprint October 1934 Royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering showing very slight bumping on the ends of the spine. Tiny label from Bookseller, Hull, UK on bottom of back end paper. The binding is intact and secure. The dust jacket is protected with a Brodart cover. The D/J is illustrated by Bip Pares. There… Read more about this item

An extremely rare copy in very good condition after 143 years. The gilt lettering and black illustration on the green cloth cover board and spine are in very good condition although there is some bumping and wear on the corners and edges. The text block is age toned and the binding is intact. There is no dust jacket. This inscribed… Read more about this item

The Birth of Britain, Vol 1 (1958) 6th printing 521pp. The New World, Vol 2 (1959) 1st printing 433pp. The Age of Revolution, Vol 3 (1957) floating "W" 402pp. The Great Democracies, Vol 4 (1958) 1st Printing 403pp. The books are clean, sound and unmarked except for one line of text on p167 (vol 3) underlined in pencil. There is… Read more about this item