UK Interest Books

The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...

Palestine Unveiled, by Douglas V. Duff. Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow. 1938 first edition. Printed in Glasgow. A very ...

Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941; Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office. Edited by Raymond James Sontage and James Stuart Beddie....

Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; From the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Da...

A good copy of Durrell's acclaimed autobiographical account of life during turbulent times. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Cla...

"From the award-winning author of Cruel Britannia, a revelatory new book which exposes the culture of concealment at the heart of the British state...

A volume of reminiscenses of.Lord Frederic Hamilton (1856-1928), Conservative Party Politician and Member of Parliament. He also served in the Dipl...

A volume of reminiscenses of.Lord Frederic Hamilton (1856-1928), Conservative Party Politician and Member of Parliament. He also served in the Dipl...

Biography of Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), British statesman, Conservative politician, and UK Prime Minister from 1922-1923. The Unknown Prime Mini...

A complete 3 volume first edition biography of Henry Lord Brougham (1778-1868). Born in Edinburgh, he qualified as a barrister in 1808, before bein...

A 2 volume biography of Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Liberal statesman, lawyer and journalist. The Life of Si...

The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice; A Record. Edited by Stephen Gwynn.  Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918), was a British Diplomat...

A complete 2 volume set from the Library of former British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) & his son, Randolph S. Churchill (...

Previously owned by Arthur James Balfour; First Earl of Balfour, former Conservative, British Prime Minister from 1902-1905. He also held various s...

Biography of the British historian and Liberal politician, Reginald Baliol Brett (1852-1930). Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher. Firs...

A Short History of the English People. By J.R. Green, M.A. (John Richard Green). Illustrated Edition. Edited by Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss Kate Norg...

The first of the Shakspere Quarto Facsimiles produced on behalf of F.J. Furnivall, Founder and Director the New Shakspere Society by Mr. W. Griggs....

Biography of Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928), First Baron Carnock, British Diplomat (Ambassador to Spain and Russia), and Politician. Sir Arthur Nicols...

A handsome set of the diaries of Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a German diarist, born to Jewish parents, who describes the harsh existence of day-t...

Biography of George Hamilton-Gordon, 1784-1860. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852-1855. He was a British Statesman, Diplomat an...

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), held the office of Clerk of the Council in Ordinary and served under the three monarchs of King Georg...

Annie S. Swan is said to be one of the most commercially successful novelists of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was Scottish and lived f...

Annie S. Swan is said to be one of the most commercially successful novelists of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was Scottish and lived f...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performance of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work ca...

Biography of John Morley, First Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), British Liberal Statesman, Writer and Newspaper Editor (Pall Mall Gazette...

Biography of John Russell and his wife, Kate Stanley - Lord and Lady Amberley. Both were born in 1842. John Russell was a British writer and politi...

The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency. Translated from the French by Bayle St. John. In Three Volumes, ...

A substantial work detailing the life and letters of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), English writer, art historian, antiquarian and politician.  SOLD T...

Autobiography of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), Liberal politician and statesman, and key figure behind Britain's foreign ...

Comprehensive biography of former British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, who held the position for twelve years in four non-consecutive periods...

2 Volume biography of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who became Lord Chancellor of G...

Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons (1817-1887), served as British Ambassador to the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and France (as well as other dip...

The memoirs of popular society Dandy, Captain Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865), who served as a Welsh Grenadier and an unsuccessful politician, who a...

Founded in 1817, and initially called Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, it was more successfully relaunched as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Also known...

The Penny Pictorial Magazine, 3 bound volumes of issues, 1899-1900. The Penny Pictorial Magazine was sold weekly and its one penny price tag was de...

The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...