Recent Additions
Numbers and Joshua & Judges
Two Old Testament volumes from The Temple Bible
G Buchanan Gray, and A R S Kennedy (editors)
J M Dent, London, 1902
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Man who Lost his Shadow
First UK edition of a modern Egyptian classic
Fathy Ghanem, translated by Desmond Stewart. Dustwrapper by Julian Willett.
Chapman & Hall, London, 1966
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Forgotten Master (Signed copy)
Signed by Dorothy Moulton Mayer, a biography of violinist Louis Spohr
Dorothy Moulton Mayer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1959
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Scenes et Comedies
from the library of Richard Cobden's daughters, and signed by Jane Cobden, an early campaigner for women's rights
Octave Feuillet
Michel Levy Freres, Paris, 1855
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Leather Bound
Jadis et Naguère (Signed copy)
Verlaine's poetry, this copy signed by Frederick York Powell and Rachel Annand Taylor
Paul Verlaine
Leon Vanier, Paris, 1891
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Leather Bound | Association Copy
My Grimmest Nightmare
An anthology of gruesome stories
Lady Cynthia Asquith, and others including Marjorie Bowen, Noel Streatfeild, Algernon Blackwood...
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1935
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Emil and the Detectives
Second edition of Emil's hunt for missing money in 1920s Berlin
Erich Kastner, with an introduction by Walter de la Mare
Jonathan Cape, London, 1933
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
On the Trail of the Unknown
In the Wilds of Ecuador and the Amazon, illustrated with photographs
G M Dyott
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1926
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Nine books on film & cinema
Jean-Luc Godard, Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Allan Dwan, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Bogdanovich etc
Various, including Peter Bogdanovich, Raymond Durgnat etc
Studio Vista, London & Edinburgh, 1967
£40.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions
Thumb Tripping (Signed copy)
Signed by Don Mitchell, the first US edition
Don Mitchell
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1970
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fifth Column
A rare 1940 work from John Langdon-Davies warning against the enemy at home.
John Langdon-Davies
John Murray, London, 1940
£25.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Peep at the Pixies
1854, six fairy tales illustrated by Hablot K Browne (Phiz)
Anna Eliza Bray, illustrated by Hablot K Browne
Grant & Griffith, London, 1854
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Royal Natural History
Vols 1, 2, 5 & 6, with 48 full page colour plates
Richard Lydekker, (editor), preface by P L Sclater
Frederick Warne, London, 1893
£45.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
To the Edge of the Sky (Signed copy)
Signed & dedicated by Anhua Gao
Anhua Gao
Penguin Books, London, 2001
£16.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
313 Days to Christmas (Signed copy)
Signed by Alan Mackay, the story of the POW Stalag Luft III paper The Daily Recco
Alan Mackay
Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, 1998
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Missal Romain
French prayer book, c1907, bound in ivorine with inlaid metal design
Not stated
Marc Barbou, Limoges, 1907
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
All Trivia (Signed copy)
Signed by Logan Pearsall Smith to Hugh Trevor Roper
Logan Pearsall Smith
Constable, London, 1945
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Paradise Regain'd
1707, the fifth edition, lacking covers but bound with Samson Agonistes and Poems on Several Occasions (4th ed.)
John Milton
Jacob Tonson, London, 1707
£47.00
Poetry | Soft Cover
The First Five Lives of Annie Besant
A biographer of the feminist, Theosophist, occultist, Socialist, campaigner...
Arthur H Nethercot
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1961
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Selected Poems
A good selection of Thomas Hardy's verse
Thomas Hardy, edited and with an introduction by G M Young
Macmillan, London, 1940
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Greek Gulliver
Stories from Lucian, including the Moon-Folk
Alfred J Church , illustrated by C O Murray
Seeley & Co, London, 1891
£12.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
What I Believe (My Religion)
Tolstoy's personal interpretation of Christian theology.
Leo Tolstoy
The Free Age Press, Christchurch, 1902
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First thus
Caracole (Signed copy)
Signed by Edmund White
Edmund White
E P Dutton, New York, 1985
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kino
A History of the Russian and Soviet Film
Jay Leyda
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1960
£15.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
I am a Memory Come Alive
Autobiographical Writings by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, edited by Nahum N Glatzer
Schocken Books, New York, 1974
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
