Published by Eyre Methuen Publishers, London, 1979
ISBN 10: 0413459500 ISBN 13: 9780413459503
Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A very nice, tight and clean copy. A fascinating, well-written work.
Published by Eyre Methuen Publishers, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0413295400 ISBN 13: 9780413295408
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This copy is in fine unmarked condition bound in terracotta cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted.John Churchill, the future 1st Duke of Marlborough, started life with very little. His father was a Royalist during the Protectorate and had to pay ruinous fines, so John was on his own. Dazzlingly handsome when he arrived at court--indeed, dazzling in so many ways for his entire life--he became the lover of Barbara Villiers, sharing her with Charles II, during the same time his sister was the mistress of James, Duke of York. 'Scandalmongers of the period and priggish and prurient historians since have suggested, their breath indrawn with disapproval, that Marlborough owed his commission to the fact that his elder sister Arabella was the Duke of York's mistress; if true, it was fortunate for England and Europe that the Duke found her person so agreeable. It was indeed. John Churchill fought for, and then against, both the Duke of Monmouth and James of York--at that time, James II. Churchill rode out on James' side, then rode off to join Dutch William. And the list of his others battles rings through history: Blenheim. Ramilles. Oudenarde. Malplaquet. Corelli Barnett brings out both the private and the public man in Marlborough with style and grace and depth. The private man is clear in his deep and abiding love and passion for his wife; Marlborough wrote to Sarah from the continent, saying ''I doe assure you that your letters are soe welcome to mee that if thay shou'd come in the time I were expecting the enemy to charge mee, I cou'd not forbear reading them.' The public man was just as obvious; some time before it was even suspected that the Hanovers might come over to take the place of the Stuarts, the Electress Sophia said about Marlborough: 'He is skilled as a courtier as he is brave as a general.' A dazzling and brilliant man deserves a dazzling and brilliant book about his life. Corelli Barnett has provided us one. Ref HHH4.
Published by Eyre Methuen, publishers, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0413283402 ISBN 13: 9780413283405
Seller: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australia
hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket 210 pages Spike Mays is a natural raconteur, telling his remarkable life's story with humanity and humour. In his forty-seventh year, Spike Mays left Edinburgh University hoping for a permanent post as a welfare officer with the GPO. His eventual destination proved to be the fast developing Heathrow Airport, and it is his varied adventures there which occupy the main part of this amusing book (shepherding VIPs and coping with reporters, cameramen and the BBC). VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket.
Published by Methuen & Co Ltd/ Eyre & Spottiswoode (publishers) Ltd 1970, [ London ], 1970
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Watkins-Pitchford, D. J. (illustrator). 200 pp., Hardcover with pictorial boards and dustjacket. Jacket is torn and edgeworn with 2cm loss to the spine and some pencil marks to rear interior flap. Slight spotting to the fore edge, other wise clean and bright. Illustrated in both black and white and colour. Signed by the author and artist, D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. The companion novel, The Little Grey Men, won the Carnegie Medal for the year's best children's book in 1942 8vo. Illustrated.