THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. by CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S - 1932

Odhams press London (2nd imp), 1948. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with a printed black label and decorated spine, page edges coloured red, 7 in-text illustrations and 2 small maps, 246pp Good

Mandarin, 1990. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions.

UK: Odhams , 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bookplate o/w very good condition hardcover, no inscr., good professionally prptected dustwrapper

London: Macmillan & Co. Fair. 22 x 14cm. Hardcover. 1943. 272 pages. Ex-library. Card pocket ripped out of rear endcover. S quare cut out of half title page. .

Mandarin. J206 1990, paperback, goed exemplaar, naam voorin

Macmillan, 1942-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. BOOKPLATE INSIDE FRONT BOARD, NAME ON FEP, NO JACKET, PAGES GOOD - NO FOXING

London: Macmillan and co, 1942. Reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 320pp. Text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Slight tanning of the contents, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good condition (some rubbing, some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1934 Copy in green cloth on boards with title blind stamped on cover and gilt title on spine. Spine is sunned. Spine is rubbed at head/foot. Small white mark on upper cover and a few small marks on lower cover. Free of inscriptions. Very light foxing to front and rear end papers. Foxing to folio fore-edges. Clean text.

Leo Cooper, London, 1990. Good. 1990. Paperback. 0749302003 . – Book is in good overall condition. No writing. Average wear. Spill stain to edge of pages. .

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1943. Macmillan issue, third and final printing. Hardcover. This is a wartime reprint of Winston Churchill’s collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Thoughts and Adventures has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. Thoughts and Adventures was first published in 1932 by Thornton Butterworth Limited. This was at the beginning of a decade the author spent out of power and out of favor, frequently at odds with both his Government and prevailing public sentiment. But in 1940 Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. And also in 1940, Thornton Butterworth went under and a different publisher, Macmillan, acquired the rights to several of Churchill’s books. Hence this wartime reprint by Macmillan using modified first edition plates. This Macmillan issue was a simple but… Read More

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

Doubleday & Co., 1949. Used-very good. Hard Bound

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 500. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Wrap-around pictorial dust jacket, deep blue cloth covered boards with the college insignia stamped in gilt on the top board. Includes pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, and a foreword by The Honourable Michael J. Beloff, President of Trinity College. The book is a history of the venerable college from its inception. There are black and white photographs throughout. The appendices contain; drawings of the college grounds, list ofTwentieth-century Fellows, list of member of the college in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and index. This is a near fine copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.

Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Reader's Edition. Fine copy.

The 1857 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Richard the First of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eighteen B&W engravings (nine plates) are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with obvious water damage that shows through the endpapers. Fraying on top spine and front jacket. Small writing on front endpaper. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.

Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Alfred of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All nine B&W engravings are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with wear on heel and top. Small markings on FFEP. A few pages have deckled bottom edges. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).