English Politics

Single sheet, toned, slight soiling, short split to upper margin.

First edition, colonial issue; 8vo, (23 x 16 cm); frontispiece, letter from Government House (Australia) tipped in, leaves a little toned but otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark topstain, watermark to top edge, earliest state pale blue dust jacket, UK price clipped from jacket, Australian label applied to spine, some spotting to jacket, spine toned, overall a very good copy; 466pp.

Three individual leaflets. Single leaves printed on one side. A little dusty but in excellent condition.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; frontispieces, 16 plates, one folding; publisher's rich red cloth, blocked in gilt & blind, spines very very slightly sunned, minor bumping to lower fore-corners but overall a near fine set.

First edition, signed on the half-title 'From Winston Churchill 1943'; Small 8vo (185 x 125 mm); a couple of spots to half-title, ink of signature has faded a little with age but still distinct, else very clean; publisher's printed wrappers with yapp edges, these a bit creased and chipped, general light surface soling but given ephemeral nature of war-time paper and production, generally very good; 72pp.

Centenary Edition; 4 vols, 8vo (233 x 144 mm); publisher's half blue rexine gilt, including the emblem of The Order of the Garter on each front cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, each with the limitation bookplate loosely inserted, numbered 118; a fine set.

1p., US letter, horizontal crease where previously folded, very good; unframed.

Folio, as described, with blank notepaper clipped inside the notebook, with green velvet cushion, the whole housed in a black morocco, velvet-lined box with gilt Seal.

A characteristic Steadman sketch of the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with autograph dedication from the author, reproduced together on an A4 sheet, with original autograph signature & date by the artist below, light horizontal fold; with postcard depicting a Steadman illustration, inscribed by Steadman on the reverse.

First and only edition, 8vo, 47, (1) pp., text browned, very short, closed tear to edge of half title, publisher's printed wrappers, advert on rear panel for the author's 'Soviet Russia, As I Saw It', light browning to spine, closed split to base of spine otherwise very good.