Browse by Date—1950–
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Playe
1966, first edition, 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Irving Chernev
Faber & Faber, London, 1966
Sold
Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962
Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Golden Lotus
Clement Egerton's four volume translation of Chin P'ing Mei
Clement Egerton, his translation after Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (attrib)
Graham Brash, Singapore, 1980
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Slipcase
The Moving Waters
1956, John Stewart Collis's study of water in all its forms
John Stewart Collis, illustrated by Nicholas Egon
The Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1956
£12.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Guide to the Stars
Patrick Moore's 1960 title, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Patrick Moore, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Scientific Book Club, London, 1960
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Another Country
James Baldwin's 1963 classic, with superb dustwrapper art by Noelle Sandwith
James Baldwin, dustwrapper by Noelle Ora Sandwith
The Book Club, London, 1963
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1964, The Reprint Society's edition
John Le Carre
The Reprint Society, London, 1964
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Two A J P Taylor first editions
Englishmen and Others (1956) and From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1966)
A J P Taylor
Various, London, 1956
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends
A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Red Square at Noon
1973, the first Penguin edition
Natalia Gorbanevskaya, translated by Alexander Lieven
Penguin Books, London, 1973
£10.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£15.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)
A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Barbara Ninde Byfield, illustrated by the author
Macmillan, New York, 1967
£60.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The War Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45
with postcard signed by the publisher, Nicola Beauman
Vere Hodgson, with a new preface by Jenny Hartley
Persephone Books, London, 1999
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Aristide Maillol (Signed copy)
From the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Bertrand Lorquin
Thames and Hudson, London, 1995
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Igor Mitoraj (Signed copy)
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Donald Kuspit, and Giovanni Testori (text), introduction by John Russell Taylor. Photographs by Liberto Perugi
Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1992
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Naval Mutinies of 1797, Unity and Perseverance
A comprehensive study
Ann Veronica Coats, and Philip MacDougall, editors
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2011
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938, On the Edge of the Abyss of Time
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Norbert Wolf
Taschen, Koln, 2003
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
War Requiem & Aftermath
2013, Maggi Hambling's art featuring paintings of battlefields and war victims.
Maggi Hambling, with James Cahill
Unicorn Press, London, 2015
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Serbia: The History of an Idea
First edition of this comprehensive study
Stevan K Pavlowitch
New York University Press, New York, 2002
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dear Philip
A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942–1945
Freddy Bloom
The Bodley Head, London, 1980
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz
and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz, with Amanda Sebestyen, and Anne Marreco
Virago, London, 1987
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2
Mary Thomas
Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover
General Ludd (Signed copy)
Signed by John Metcalf, the author's second novel
John Metcalf
ECW Press, Downsview, Ontario, 1980
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Quest for Arthur's Britain
1968, first edition of Geoffrey Ashe's study of King Arthur's Britain
Geoffrey Ashe
The 'Pall Mall' Press, London, 1968
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers
A facsimile edition of Walter Crane's 1889 classic
Walter Crane
Windward, Leicester, 1980
£15.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
