Recent Additions
Coloured Glasses
W A Weyl's classic work on the constitution of coloured glasses
W A Weyl
Society of Glass Technology, Sheffield, 1981
£30.00
Science & Technology | Soft Cover
Soils of Romney Marsh
Illustrated with maps and charts
R D Green
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, 1968
£30.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions
Free Love and other stories (Signed copy)
Signed by Ali Smith, her first book
Ali Smith
Virago, London, 1995
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Alps and Sanctuaries of the Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
1881, Samuel Butler's writings of Italy and his life there
Samuel Butler, illustrated by Charles Gogin and others
A C Fifield, London, 1881
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Electra of Euripides
Gilbert Murray's translation, rebound in green cloth
Euripides, translated by Gilbert Murray
George Allen, London, 1913
£10.00
Classics | Hard Cover
Song of the Earth (Signed copy)
Signed by Alexander Cordell, the third in his Mortymer trilogy
Alexander Cordell
Victor Gollancz, London, 1969
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Venezia (Venice)
An attractively bound travel book on Venice
Henry Perl, adapted from the German of Mrs Arthur Bell. With an introduction by H D Traill, and illustrated by Ettore Tito et al
Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1894
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Films Deliver
Teaching Creatively with Film
Anthony Schillaci, and John M Culkin (editors)
Citation Press, New York, 1970
£20.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
c1895, a very poor copy...
Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Paget
George Newnes, London, 1895
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Fiction | Hard Cover
Tortilla Flat
French language limited edition in Picasso binding
John Steinbeck, illustrated by Fontanarosa. Binding design by Picasso
L'Academie Suedoise, 1965
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
A History of the Bubonic Plague in the British Isles
Second printing of bacteriologist J F D Shrewsbury's study
J F D Shrewsbury
University Press, Cambridge, 1971
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Freud, The Making of an Illusion
First printing of this monumental biographical study
Frederick Crews
Profile Books, London, 2017
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ring Resounding (Signed copy)
Signed by John Culshaw, his account of the recording in stereo of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
John Culshaw
Secker & Warburg, London, 1967
£35.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
@Earth (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Kennard
Peter Kennard, assisted by Tarek Salhany
Tate Gallery , London, 2011
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Soyer's Standard Cookery
A Complete Guide to the Art of Cooking Dainty, Varied and Economical Dishes for the Household
Nicolas Soyer
Andrew Melrose, London, 1912
£10.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Second Book of Hundreds of Things a Girl Can Make
from painted feathers to a pipe-cleaner fairy
Not stated
W Foulsham & Co Ltd, London, 1949
£10.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Ignoble End
Nigerian fiction
A Osi-Momoh
Central Printing Press, Sapele, Nigeria, 1978
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Sixth Trumpeter
The Story of Jezreel and his Tower
P G Rogers
Oxford University Press, London, 1963
£10.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Elements of Style
The first expanded edition of Strunk and E B White's classic style book
William Strunk Jr, and E B White
Macmillan, New York, 1959
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Law of Atomic Energy and Radioactive Substances
A hardback offprint from Halsbury's Laws of England
D F Sim
Butterworths, London, 1976
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First thus
The Poetical Works of John Milton
Half-vellum binding & patterned silk boards
John Milton, edited by Rev H C Beeching
Humphrey Milford, London, 1916
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Chislehurst Golf Club (Signed copy)
Signed by the author and club captain, '100 Years at Camden Place'
W M Mitchell
Grant Books, Worcestershire, 1994
£50.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
Hopes and Fears for Art
William Morris' Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London and Nottingham 1878–1881
William Morris
Ellis & White, London, 1882
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover
Sailing Barge Master
The Story of a Victorian Bargeman
Captain George Winn
Chaffcutter, Ware, 2009
£10.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
History of British Trotskyism
Ted Grant's seminal history
Ted Grant, with an introduction and postscript by Rob Sewell
Wellred Publications, London, 2002
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
