Search Results: Great Britain from Trench Books

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Faint stains to cover, name on flyleaf, othewise a sound copy. Only 29 pages, but was a bestseller, this being the twelfth printing. Published anonymously, this letter was written by a flyer with the RAF to be sent to his family in the event he did not return from a mission.

New York: Chilmark Press, 1967. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Slight bumps to lower corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light shelfwear, not price clipped. A collection of twenty essays the author read over the radio to the British during WWII. Introduction by Eric Sevareid.

London: John Murray / Pilot Press, 1942. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Poor. Inscription on flyleaf, light wear. Jacket complete but quite ragged. "The Story of American Volunteers in Britain 1939-1941". A slim volume (64 pgs) with lots of B&W photos. Even though the US was not yet in the war, many Americans wanted to help. This tells what they did.

New York: Random House, 1979. First American Edition . Purple Cloth. Good+/Fair. Moderate wear, reading creases to spine, inscription inside front cover, otherwise sound and unmarked. Price-clipped jacket has wear and chips to edges, folds on spine. Detailed history of the 1899 war in South Africa. Many B&W photos, 700pgs. Extra postage outside the US.

London: Heinemann, 1963. First Edition . Red Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minimal wear. "Has Britain a future as a great nation?

London: Park Lane Press, 1978. Decorative Cloth. Good+/Good+. Wear/soiling to edges; sound unmarked copy. Jacket shows edgewear, light soiling. 240 pages, many photos. "The many delights of traditional Bristih cooking". Oversized, extra postage outside the US.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Red cloth, gilt titles. Boards show light wear and are unfaded, minor bumps to spine ends and corners, light soiling to very edges, bump to bottom back edge. Prev owner's bookplate inside front cover. Numerous B&W photos throughout, foldouts intact and in VG shape, light foxing to fore-edge. A somewhat scarce title. Due to size, extra postage for overseas.

Garden City, 1934. Reprint . Green Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Rockwell Kent. Small smudge to fore-edge, otherwise a real nice copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows a bit of edgewear, 1/2" surface tear on front. "A gorgeous rendering of the lusty stories of England's Rabelais". 1960's reprint of the Covici-Friede original. 600+ pgs. Extra postage required outside the US.

New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Slight bump to one corner, faint pencil erasure on flyleaf, otherwise a nice clean copy. Jacket shows light wear, minor soiling to spine, not price clipped. The way of life for children in WW2 Britain. Many B&W photos. Review copy, slip included. Extra postage outside the US.

London: Methuen, 1949. Fourth Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear, sound and unmarked. The story of Worcestershire County (England). Numerous B&W photos, map endpapers.

London: Associated Newspapers, 1950. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. Light wear, soiling to covers, unmarked. Jacket soiled, faint stains, edgewear. Large volume of everything that should be in a modern British home of the 1950s. Many articles, photos, and ads. 264 pages. Oversized, extra postage required outside the US.

Clifton, NJ: Augustus M. Kelley, 1974. Red Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Minimal shelfwear. clean and unmarked. Jackets show only light soiling, minor edgewear. Two volumes, a great resource. Covers the period "of modern industrialism, from the later decades of the eighteenth century to the present" (1974). "Living persons are excluded". Extra postage will be necessary outside the US.

London: S.W. Partridge, 1904. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor wear at corners, foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean and bright. Illus with B&W photos. Interesting look at treatment of orphans in England - 100 years ago.

Philadelphia: LIPPINCOTT, 1943. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear to covers, orig. dealer sticker on flyleaf (Book Shop, Salem), otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, quite presentable. The story of corvettes (boats) on patrol off the English coast during WWII.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1953. Revised Edition . Brown Cloth. Good+/Good+. Light wear to edges; a few pages have pencil notations and check marks. Jacket shows edgewear, light rubbing. "A pungent history of his land and people written with characteristic vigor and wise irony by the celebrated former Dean of St. Paul's". "Nations of the Modern World".

New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Minimal shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minor wear. A memoir about a young boy's return to England following WWII, after four years in the safety of the US. Sequel to "America, Lost & Found".

London: Longmans Green, 1929. Green Cloth. Very Good+/Good. Minor wear at corners, yellowing to endpapers, 2" closed tear to page 161, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minor edgewear, spine quite yellowed, chip at top of spine (affecting a portion of the title), not price clipped (3/6net). English Heritage Series. This would make a good handbook in US high schools!

New York: St. Martins, 1983. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Small hardcover, nice collection of snack recipes.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Second Impression . Blue Cloth. Good+/Good+. Light wear to bottom edges, address stamped on top edge, some underlining and check marks to text, corner of flyleaf clipped. Jacket shows edgewear, light soiling.

New York: Columbia Univ, 1922. First Edition . Original Wraps. Good+/No Jacket. Wear to covers, sound and unmarked. "Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of English Poetry". Trade sized paperback, 400 pgs. "Studies in English and Comparative Literature".