Browse by Date—1950–
Twopence to Cross the Mersey
1974, Helen Forrester's account of growing up in 1930s Liverpool
Helen Forrester, dustwrapper by Pauline Martin
Jonathan Cape, London, 1974
£17.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Hungarian Tragedy
Peter Fryer's account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Peter Fryer
Dennis Dobson, London, 1956
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Room with a View (Signed copy)
A rare example signed by E M Forster directly to the title page
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1952
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
The First World War in Africa (Signed copy)
Signed by Hew Strachan to historian Anne Powell
Hew Strachan
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Outbreak of the First World War (Signed copy)
Signed by Hew Strachan to historian Anne Powell
Hew Strachan
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Distaff Dimension
Anne Bulley's biography of the women from one family
Anne Bulley
Cockatrice, London, 2001
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Refiner's Fire; The Enigma of Alchemy in East and West (Signed copy)
Initialled by Joseph Needham, the Second J D Bernal Lecture
Joseph Needham
Birkbeck College, London, 1971
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Science, Mathematics & Technology | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Afropean, Notes from Black Europe (Signed copy)
Signed by Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts
Allen Lane, London, 2019
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Foster in View
A 2009 study of the work of architect Norman Foster
Ben Johnson, with Norman Foster, Charles Jencks, and Mel Gooding. Edited by David Jenkins.
Prestel, London, 2005
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
Plankton in Ton (Signed copy)
Signed by the botanical artist Amedeo Baumgartner
Amedeo Baumgartner
Ed. Howeg, Zurich, 2005
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£20.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Letters of Lewis Carroll
A very good set from Morton Cohen's own collection, with letter to MNC from C FitzSimons Allison
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Oxford University Press, New York, 1979
£50.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First Editions | Slipcase
Lewis Carroll, A Biography
The first Japanese edition, in two volumes, and from Morton Cohen's own collection.
Morton N Cohen
Kawaru Shobo Shinsha, Tokyo, 1995
£30.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Men of Gallipoli (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Liddle to Thomas Spurgeon who served on the Ark Royal in the Gallipoli campaign
Peter Liddle
Allen Lane, London, 1976
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
James Herbert's Dark Places: Locations and Legends
The first printing, 1993
James Herbert, photographs by Paul Barkshire
HarperCollins, London, 1993
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Eyewitness: Australian Ghosts (Signed copy)
Signed by Miriam Howard-Wright to British radio producer Piers Plowright
Miriam Howard-Wright
Artlook, Western Australia, 1980
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Painted Fans of Japan, 15 Noh Drama Masterpieces
Bound in silk and shaped like a fan
Reiko Chiba
Charles E Tuttle, Vermont & Tokyo, 1974
£12.00
Art | Hard Cover
Cinema Dadiste et Surrealiste
with the bookplate of English Surrealist and bibliophile John Lyle
Alain Sayag, and Claire Blanchon
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1978
£20.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Black Book
Lawrence Durrell's third novel, the 2nd edition of 1959, Olympia Press
Lawrence Durrell
The Olympia Press, Paris, 1959
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Dustwrapper
Something And Nothing—Tales From The Wedding Present: Vol Two
Signed by David Lewis Gedge, Terry de Castro and Lee Thacker
David Lewis Gedge, with Terry de Castro and Jessica McMillan, adapted and illustrated by Lee Thacker, additional editing by Karl Kathuria
Scopitones, Brighton, 2022
£50.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
About Britain, complete in 13 volumes
Geoffrey Grogson's series, published for the Festival of Britain in 1951
Geoffrey Grigson, editor and author (of two)
Collins, London, 1951
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Two books on Rex Whistler
Rex Whistler's War, and Rex Whistler—The Triumph of Fancy
Jeremy Spencer-Smith, and Stephen Calloway
Various, London & Brighton, 1994
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Dr No
1958, the first printing of the sixth James Bond novel
Ian Fleming
Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Diary of Frida Kahlo, An Intimate Self-Portrait
1995, the first printing of this edition
Frida Kahlo, introduction by Carlos Fuentes, essay and commentaries by Sarah M Lowe
Abrams, New York, 1995
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Two Screenplays & Three Screenplays
Visconti's La Terra Trema, Senso, White Knights, Rocco and his Brothers, and The Job
Luchino Visconti, translated from the Italian by Judith Green
The Orion Press, New York, 1970
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions