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From The Library of Harold & Mary Wilson. Inscribed by the editor in the year of publication, "For Harold may you always have the best of everything With warmest regards William Davis.The categories are each written by an expert in the field. Contains 36 line drawings.William Davis (1933-2019) was born Gunther Keese in Germany, a notable journalist and an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. The book is tightly bound, and in very good condition. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, fading along the edges and spine; unclipped. Internally clean, free of markings and foxing.Contains a letter to Mary Wilson sent with a video of Barbara Castle's life.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. From The Library of Harold & Mary Wilson. Inscribed by the editor in the year of publication, “For Harold may you always have the best of everything With warmest regards William Davis. The categories are each written by an expert in the field. Contains 36 line drawings. William Davis (1933-2019) was born Gunther Keese in Germany, a notable journalist and an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. The book is tightly bound and in very good condition. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, fading along the edges and spine; unclipped. Internally clean, free of markings and foxing. Contains a letter to Mary Wilson sent with a video of Barbara Castle’s life. ; Line drawings .

London: The Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. The book Is tightly bound; The dust jacket is complete, unclipped £6.95. Internally clean and free of foxing; Lodge has written notes on the rear endpaper. ; From the library of David Lodge. David Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Signed by Lodge on the endpapers. ; 255 pages .

London: Royal Academy of Arts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Illustrated throughout with full page colour artworks by David Hockney. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the fine original dust wrapper that remains without loss or tears. Published in conjunction with the Royal Academy exhibition of the same name, exploring Hockney's long standing fascination with landscape. ; 290 x 310; 302 pages .

London: Hazell Watson & Viney. Very Good. c1935. Hardcover. The books are bound in faux burgundy leather bindings with gilt text on the spine . The boards are generally clean with occasional small marks . Internally the books are generally clean, free of markings and foxing . Slightly dusty . ; 16 books Including the following titles. A Tale of Two Cities , A Christmas Carol , Sketches by Boz, Hard Times , Little Dorrit , The Pickwick Papers , Christmas Stories , Pictures from Italy , Oliver Twist , Great Expectations , Nicholas Nickelby , The Old Curiosity Shop , A Child's History of England , Barnaby Rudge , The Uncommercial Traveller Dombey and Son , Bleak House , Martin Chuzzlewit, A Mutual Friend, David Copperfield , Miscellaneous Papers, Edwin Drood , American notes , Mr Humphrey's Clock, and Life of Dickens . .

New York: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, the boards are clean ; top edge greyed page edges browned. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, the back is grubby and marked. The boards of the hardback are grey. The condition of the Penguin paperback Is commensurate with Its age. ; From the library of David Lodge. David John Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Lodge's thesis for his MA was on Roman Catholic writers and the "two stars" of that thesis were Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; both… Read More

New York: MacMillan. Very Good. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is reasonably firmly bound, the spine is cocked and faded; corners and spine ends are bumped. The edges are greyed/browned. The endpapers are foxed with previous owner’s inscriptions. Some foxing in the text block but mainly clean. The patterned boards are grubby. .

The book is reasonably firmly bound, the spine is cocked and faded; corners and spine ends are bumped. The edges are greyed/browned. The endpapers are foxed with previous owner's inscriptions. Some foxing in the text block but mainly clean. The patterned boards are grubby.First edition.