Browse by Date—1950–
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
£40.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Wombles at Work
1973, the first edition
Elisabeth Beresford, illustrated by Margaret Gordon
Ernest Benn, London, 1973
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Jazz, An Introduction to its Musical Basis (Signed copy)
Signed by Avril Dankworth
Avril Dankworth
Oxford University Press, London, 1975
£15.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Empire of Min
1954, first edition, Edward Shafer's study of Chinese history AD907–960
Edward H Schafer
Charles E Tuttle, Rutland, VT, 1954
£32.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
1961, first edition, a complete translation of the cycle of 32 plays
Martial Rose, editor
Evans Brothers, London, 1961
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Sam Pig Storybook
1965, first edition, with 35 Sam Pig stories
Alison Uttley, illustrated by Cecil Leslie
Faber & Faber, London, 1965
£18.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House
A sumptuous history of the Derbyshire house
John-Paul Stonard, foreword by The Duke of Devonshire & The Duchess of Devonshire photography by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Art Direction by Huw Morgan
Particular Books, London, 2021
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
One by One
1965, Penelope Gilliatt's first novel
Penelope Gilliatt
Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pillion Riders
A first printing of Elisabeth Russell Taylor's novel of the conflicting demands of passion and morality
Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Peter Owen, London, 1993
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wizard from Vienna
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism
Vincent Buranelli
Peter Owen, London, 1976
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Unfree in Palestine (Signed copy)
Signed by Adah Kay, 'Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction'
Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Adah Kay
Pluto Press, London, 2013
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Journal of a London Playgoer
1974 edition of Morley's account of theatre trips 1851–1866
Henry Morley, with an introduction by Michael R Booth
Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1974
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Lambretta Serviceman's Book
2nd edition, c1960, a decent copy
D B Palmer, photography by K G Palmer
Lambretta Concessionaires Ltd, Croydon, 1960
£25.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Sophie Ryder (Signed copy)
A study of the sculptor's work, signed by Sophie Ryder
Jonathan Benington
Lund Humphries, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Aeschylus and Athens
George Thomson's study of Athenian drama and democracy
George Thomson
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
A Mirror to My Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Perle Hessing
Perle Hessing
Henry Holt, New York, 1988
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chagall du Coq a l'Ane
A superbly illustrated French exhibition catalogue from 2018
Jean-Jacques Faucher, and Jean-Louis Prat
La Doyenne, Brioude, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Nineteenth-Century Lives, Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley (Signed copy)
From the library of Morton N Cohen (contributor), with a handwritten letter to him from Jerome Buckley
Laurence S Lockridge, with John Maynard, & Donald D Stone (editors), bibliography compiled by David M Staines
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Where Did It All Go Right? (Signed copy)
Signed by Al Alvarez, an uncorrected proof copy
A. Alvarez
Richard Cohen Books / Metro, London, 1999
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Uncorrected proof
Irish Folk Music and Song
A brief study by Donal O'Sullivan
Donal O'Sullivan, illustrated by Muriel Brandt
Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin, 1956
£10.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
Art and Illusion
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
E H Gombrich
Phaidon, London, 1962
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Poems (1971) & Out Loud (1976)
Two early collections of verse from Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell
Jonathan Cape, London, 1971
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover
Lime and Lime Mortars
A 1998 facsimile of the 1927 first edition
A D Cowper
Donhead Publishing, Shaftesbury, 1998
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover
This Other Eden
Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History
Andrea Wulf, and Emma Gieben-Gamal
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£25.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
