Browse by Date—1950–
Top of the World
First UK edition of Hans Ruesch's novel of the polar Inuits
Hans Ruesch
Victor Gollancz, London, 1950
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Love and Salt-Water
First UK edition of Ethel Wilson's last novel
Ethel Wilson
Macmillan, London, 1956
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A World of Folk Tales
Five volumes of illustrated folk stories from around the world
James Riordan, with various illustrators
Paul Hamlyn, London, 1981
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
RAF Yatesbury, The History
including the First and Second World Wars, illustrated
Phil Tomaselli
Phil Tomaselli, Bristol, 2004
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
D H Lawrence's Nightmare
The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War
Paul Delany
The Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Imagism, A Chapter for the History of Modern Poetry
A first edition of Stanley K Coffman's classic study
Stanley K Coffman
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951
£35.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Worst Journey in the World
1951, single volume edition with a Postscript
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Chatto & Windus, London, 1951
Sold
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First thus
Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations 1941–1945
The history of the two countries relations during the Second World War
Slobodan Nesovic, translated by Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic
Macedonian Review Editions, Skopje, 1979
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Come all ye bold miners
Ballads and Songs from the Coalfields (1952), this copy with gift inscription from R Page Arnot
A L Lloyd, compiler
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1952
Sold
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Art and the Built Environment
1982, first edition of this handbook for teachers
Eileen Adams, and Colin Ward
Longman, London, 1982
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Pick a Pair!
A wonderful 1979 games book with 30 board games for 2 players
Frank Tapson, and Alan Parr
A & C Black, London, 1979
£20.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions
South Battersea: The Formative Years 1851–1900
A South London history
Roger Logan
Wandsworth Historical Society, London, 1977
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
The History of Architecture in India
This copy signed by British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Christopher Tadgell
Phaidon, London, 1994
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
Gaudier-Brzeska, Life & Art, with Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture
This copy signed by British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Evelyn Silber, with photographs by David Finn
Thames and Hudson, London, 1996
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
School Construction 1951
A reprint of the articles which appeared in the school construction section of "Education" (Official Organ of the Association of Education Committees)
Not stated
Councils & Education Press, London, 1951
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Visitation (Signed copy)
Signed by Michele Roberts, the author's second novel
Michele Roberts
The Women's Press, London, 1983
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Irregular Verses of Rupert Brooke (Signed copy)
Signed by the editor Peter Miller to historian Anne Powell, with two handwritten letters
Peter MIller
Green Branch, Lechlade, 1997
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Letters of William Morris
To his Family and Friend, 1950 first edition
William Morris, edited by Philip Henderson
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1950
£30.00
William Morris | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Memories of Maria Callas (1923–1977) Athens Concert Hall
including her first performance in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
Various
Athens Music Hall, Athens, 1993
£40.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | First Editions
William Wordsworth, Selected Poems
with an Illustrated Biography, published by the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
William Wordsworth, edited by Stephen Hebron
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2008
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Central African Journal of Archibald Campbell Scott
Facsimile, limited edition, Scott's journal from Malawi in the 1890s
Archibald Campbell Scott
Society of Malawi, Blantyre, 1986
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
Foyles Fifty Years 1904–1954
A brief history of the famous London bookshop
W & G Foyle
W & G Foyle, London, 1954
£35.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Story of Music
with colour collages by Ceri Richards
Benjamin Britten
Rathbone Books, London, 1958
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, Transformations of an Art
A Greek illustrated study of the great Diva (Oi Metmorfoseis Mias Technis)
Vasilis Nikolaidis
Ekdoseis Bastas Plessas, Athens, 1995
£40.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The World of the Ranters
First edition of A L Morton's account of religious radicalism in the English Revolution
A L Morton
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1970
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper