My name is Geoffrey Miller, and I am the author of three books on British diplomatic and naval policy in the period 1900 to 1915 -- Superior Force, Straits and The Millstone. In 20 years spent researching these subjects, I acquired a large library with many duplicates, which I initially began to sell to finance the research for the planned fourth volume of the “Straits” series. With the rampant consolidation in the publishing industry during the past decade, it proved impossible to interest a publisher in the fourth volume, so writing was abandoned in favour of book-selling.

 

After four years of regular week-day sales of books on eBay, I transferred to evening sales late in December 2008 to try to ease the constant self-imposed listing deadlines but have now decided to list the same number of books, but bi-weekly, with auctions scheduled to end on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

Book dimensions are given in inches, to the nearest quarter-inch, in the format width x height.

Please note that, to differentiate them from soft-covers and paperbacks, modern hardbacks are still invariably described as being ‘cloth’ when they are, in fact, predominantly bound in paper-covered boards pressed to resemble cloth.