Life and Reign of King George the Sixth. Daily Telegraph; Memorial Supplement; February 7, 1952
London: Daily Telegraph, 1952. 8 Pages of biographical articles and photos; page 8 was devoted to the new Queen Elizabeth.
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The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
“Britons never will be slaves.”
London: Daily Telegraph, 1952. 8 Pages of biographical articles and photos; page 8 was devoted to the new Queen Elizabeth.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A delightful collection of farming anecdotes from Essex. Smith recounts his octogenarian father's reminiscences from their farm at Hill Farm.
Great Britain: Leagrave Press Limited, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A delightful collection of Punch articles and travel cartoons by Basil Boothroyd, Alan Coren, Folkes, George Mikes, E. S. Turner, Alan Whicker, Vincent Mulchrone, Robert Robinson, Lord Mancroft, Alan Brien, Frank Muir, Arnold Roth.
Dublin: Belfast Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A full version of the erotically-charged 1911 Diary over which London threatened an obscenity prosecution.The volume provides both a comprehensive text of the diaries, with explanations for their cast of characters, famous, infamous, and fleeting.....
Akron, Ohio: St. Dustan Society, Published by M. Walter Dunne, 1901. Editors Autograph Edition. Hardcover.
New York: Random House / Modern Library, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. An anthology which aims to reveal the soul of Scotland through a depiction of the nation's history and character. Nature, places, lore, people and literature are represented, and work is included by writers as.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2005. As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some.....
London: Nicholas Tindal, c1745. This Map is From: "The Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England: From the Revolution to the Present Times" by Nicholas Tindal (a translation of Rapin-Thoyras's "Histoire d'Angleterre"), an atlas presenting a history of the military engagements and campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession.....
London: Robinson, and Longman and Rees, 1803. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Edmund John Eyre was an English dramatist who left university to join a theater troupe. He became first a comedian, then an actor who appeared at Drury Lane. Full Title: Observations Made At Paris During.....
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Feist, an eminent British historian and novelist has distilled the spirit of Venice, the intangible essence marked as much by the lust for blood, power and gold and the quest for beauty.....
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition, Thus. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Box. Connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England Ireland and Scotland. Containing narratives, descriptions, and many views some done from old prints. Additionally.....
New York: St Martins Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Between 1870 and 1914, 100 American women married into British nobility, usually offering wealth in exchange for social status. In this lively and gossipy biography, Fowler (Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Third Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:Charles II, byname The Merry Monarch, (1630—1685), king of Great Britain and Ireland who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. The years of his reign.....
New York: Knopf, 1996. Third Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover as the wife of King George IV from 29 January 1820 until her death in.....
London: W. Mate & Sons, 1907. The magic of the Lake District is displayed with 48 historical and professional black and white full-page photographs, each a visual masterpiece. Several additional pages feature two photos on each page, creating a feast for the eyes. To enhance your journey, accompanying text eloquently.....
London: Bemrose & Sons, 1891. 4th Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. A charming book of stories and rhymes in the Cumberland folk dialect. Cumberland is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. From the days of the Celts and the Roman Conquest to the present, offering authoritative coverage of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as the rise and decline of the overseas empire. A series of fascinating new maps explore Britain.....
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & CO., 1869. A Good Hardcover. Henry Giles after moving to the United Sates in 1840 wrote, lectured and was well-received. He was a Unitarian minister born in County Wexford to a Roman Catholic family, Giles changed his religious belief several times, becoming a......
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In a period of intensely personal kingship, the royal court and household formed the political hub of the kingdom.Using a wide range of primary sources, many of which have never been analyzed in detail.....
New YorK: Coward-McCann, 1928. Illustrations: A. B. Read. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A history of England focusing on Social Mores.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Gopod Dust Jacket. A concise yet remarkably insightful narrative of Wellington's campaigns in Portugal, Spain, and France during the period 1809 to 1814, with special emphasis on the key battles of Busaco, Salamanca, Victoria, and the Nivelle. Bindings.....
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books Inc., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Written in the form of a novel, this enchanting biography of one of the great men of history -- Sir Thomas Gresham. Financial advisor to four Tudor monarchs, he was indispensable to the.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. [A] finely drawn portrait that emerges from FitzRoy is of a very British hero in the mold of Nelson, who sacrificed his health and personal fortune in the service of his.....
London and Glasgow: Collins, 186. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.