History from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1944. 8vo. [16 pp.], illustrated paper boards. Boards slightly marked and slight creasing to front. A publication sold to support the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund, featuring a fictional incident recounted by a Fire Service Officer, accompanied by colour illustrations on every page of a burning London. Also includes a poem entitled 'Firewomen'. 'Paper provided… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1943. 12mo. Paper boards, 94 pp. The story of the bombing of London by the Group Co-ordinating Officer of Civil Defence for the East End. With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison; 12 half-tone illustrations and drawings by Blesbok; and several plates of contemporary b/w photographs. Wear to spine, with a patch of… Read more about this item

London: T. Cadell 1821. 8vo. 10 volumes. Full light brown calf; gilt border to boards; gilt decoration and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. Slight loss to surface leather of a few volumes and to the labels of volumes 4 and 5. Gift inscription to a Sarah Baker in 1826, otherwise quite clean internally. Fold-out maps of South America, Central America,… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall 1910. Large 8vo. First edition, publisher's gilt decorated cloth in 2 volumes with top-edges gilt, xii, 418; xi, 484 pp. Sunning to spines and slight bumping to spine ends, clean boards. Slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise fresh and clean internally. Numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1896. Small 8vo. li, 504 pp. Full brown morocco prize binding with blind borders and gilt stamp to front board and spine. Raised bands, title label and gilt lettering; marbled endpapers and edges; blind dentelle turn-ins. Minor rubbing to bands, spine ends and some small patches of wear to rear board. Internally fresh and clean with… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1896. 8vo. vi, 251 pp. Bickers binding of half calf with green boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine; t.e.g; marbled endpapers. fading to green calf. Internally clean. Morley was a distinguished biographer, particularly of his political hero, Gladstone. Part of the Twelve English Statesmen series. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1896.

Halifax: G. T. Whitehead 1917. Tall 8vo. 152 pp. Original blue and purple cloth with gilt emblem and lettering to front board. Orange floral endpapers with ink ownership inscription to FFEP dated 1918. Original blue paper wrappers also bound in. Frontispiece of Colonel 33rd of 1st Yorkshire West Riding Regiment. Includes b/w photographs of officers in the battalions and contemporary… Read more about this item

Milan: Lodouico Monza 1666. Small 4to. Italian language. First Edition. [xvi], 233, [9] pp. Later rebind with vellum spine, raised bands and gilt lettering and devices over patterned boards. Minor split at top of front joint and slight abrasion at base of spine. Very slight foxing to edges of some leaves, though otherwise clean internally. Luigi de Guzman Ponze di… Read more about this item

Roma: Per Luigi Vescovi e Filippo Neri 1786. Small 4to. xxxii, 392 pp. Full vellum with handwritten ink title to spine and bright red patterned edges. Boards slightly warped and marked, binding firm. Occasional light foxing and damage to the edges of the last few pagesbut generally clean. Small closed tear to FFEP. Italian text. Scarce work on the Ottoman… Read more about this item

London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1919. Small 8vo.Prize Binding. viii, 271 pp. Half red leather with gilt crest of Saugeen School Bournemouth, a prep school, to board; t.e.g. and gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Slight rubbing and warping to binding. Internally clean. Black and white illustrated title page. 18cms tall. . Very Good. Half Leather.… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1901. 8vo. First edition from 1901, half dark red morocco over cloth boards. Top edge gilt; raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; decorative endpapers. A book considering Mary, Queen of Scots, in light of the Lennox manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library. Lang later also writes a monograph on 'The Portraits and Jewels of… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan 1942. 8vo. xi, 653; vii, 586 pp., Green gilt lettered cloth in unclipped dustjackets. Bumping to extremities and wear to jackets. Previous owner's name in pencil to half title, otherwise internally clean. Black and white photographic plates and endpapers featuring maps of the region. . Very Good. Cloth. 2nd Impression. 1942.

London: George Bell and Sons 1901. Small 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth; gilt lettering to spine; blind stamped publisher's device and borders to front board. vi, 614, 29, 2 pp. Herodotus is known for having written the 'Histories', an account of the Greco-Persian wars, and considered to be the founding work of history for its thorough investigation of historic events; the… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1929. 8vo. 543 pp. Half red morocco over cloth boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine; top-edge gilt and marbled endpapers. Minimal rubbing to board edges and spine, binding firm and internally clean. B/W frontispiece portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein in the Royal Collection at Windsor. This is a fine binding and attractive volume in near… Read more about this item

Milano: Casa di Gio. Battista Bidelli 1645. 4to. [20], 132 pp. Full vellum with raised bands, morocco title-label, gilt lettering and gilt accents to spine. A wonderfully well-preserved copy of this 1645 illustrated biographical history of the twelve viscounts of Renaissance Milan by Paolo Giovio in the original Italian. Clean boards with a blind border and minimal scratching to title-label.… Read more about this item

London: Seeley, Service & Co. 1913. Small 8vo. xvl, 336 pp. Full red calf prize binding; gilt border and decoration to boards and spine, black title label and gilt device to front board. Marbled edges and endpapers; prize bookplate to front paste-down. Light foxing to title-page and first few leaves, slight rubbing to joints and extremities. Sir John Seeley was… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1956. 8vo. xvi, 707 pp. Crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf binding; gilt lettering and ruling and raised bands to spine; a.e.g.; gilt-decorated turn-ins and patterned endpapers. Very light scattered foxing. Ludwig asserts in the preface that his studies of historical figures 'are designed to be nothing more than friezes or Gobelin tapestries, in which the moods… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1970. 8vo. First UK edition. 256 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial unclipped jacket. Some warping to the binding, due to the amount of cuttings included. Clean internally. The cuttings concern this work, as well as Rubin's life and the Yippies more broadly. This work sets out Rubin's anti-establishment views. With an introduction by… Read more about this item

London: Leslie Frewin 1966. 8vo.Review Copy. Review copy. 240 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial unclipped jacket. Two very short tears at head of spine and slight rubbing to rear panel, otherwise clean. Peter Griffiths was a Conservative MP, who beat the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, in the election for the seat of Smethwick at… Read more about this item

London: George Phillip & Son [1956]. Folding Map. 4' x 3' colour folding map in pictorial card slipcase that shows the routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad. Wear to slipcase, particularly at spine. Map has very slight creasing around folds, though it is clean and bright. Previous price and document reference in pencil to rear of map. . Near Fine.… Read more about this item