Browse by Date—1950–
A War-torn Chester Parish
St Werburgh's before, during and after the Great War
Ann Marie Curtis, et al
Scotforth Books, 2017
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Art in the Light of Conscience (Signed copy)
Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated & edited by Angela Livingstone
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997
A series of essays
Carol Margaret Davison, editor
Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1997
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
"Holmes, This is Amazing", Essays in Unorthodox Research (Signed copy)
Signed by Roger Lancelyn Green to Morton N Cohen
Roger Lancelyn Green
Privately printed, London, 1975
£120.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
London After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard
Robert Fabian
The Naldrett Press, London, 1954
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Death at the Chateau (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Moore
Ian Moore
Farrago, London, 2023
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Second Stage Lensmen
1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Grey Lensman
1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Stapme, The Biography of Squadron Leader Basil Gerald Stapleton (Signed copy)
Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)
David Ross. Dustwrapper art by Nicolas Trudgian
Grub Street, London, 2002
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reproduction in Antelopes
Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)
F I B Kayanja
East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dictionary of the Hausa Language
1968, owned and rebound by British artist David Heathcote
R C Abraham
University of London Press, London, 1968
£20.00
Language | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Tale of Li Wa
Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century
Glen Dudbridge
Ithaca Press, London, 1983
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
More Than a Brother (Signed copy)
Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967
Carol Z Rothkopf, and Barry Webb
Sexton Press, London, 1996
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Poems, Letters, Life (4 vols)
All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, and Hilda D Spear
Cecil Woolf, London, 1985
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Arnander
Christopher Arnander, editor
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Bim
A Tribute to the Honourable Edward Wyndham Tennant, Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1897–1916
Anne Powell
Anne Powell, Salisbury, 1990
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems by Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway") (Signed copy)
1997, limited edition, no 9 of 300, signed by Edward Thomas' daughter Myfanwy Thomas
Edward Thomas, with an introduction by Myfanwy Thomas, and a preface by Alan A Martin.
Imperial War Museum, London, 1997
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Holocaust, The Jewish Tragedy (Signed copy)
With a handwritten postcard from Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert
HarperCollins, London, 1987
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Out of Battle, The Poetry of the Great War (Signed copy)
Signed by Jon Silkin to Myfanwy Thomas, Edward Thomas's youngest daughter
Jon Silkin
Ark, London, 1987
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
The four Sammy books
Ron & Atie van der Meer's My Brother Sammy, Sammy and Mara, Naughty Sammy, and Sammy and the Cat Party
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
