Recent Additions
A History of the Crusades
The Folio Society's three volume slipcased edition
Steven Runciman
The Folio Society, London, 1994
£20.00
History | Hard Cover
World Review, August 1950
including the first UK printing of J D Salinger's For Esme—With Love and Squalor
J D Salinger. A E Coppard, Bertrand Russell etc
Edward Hulton, London, 1950
£20.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
NOW 6
Including the first publishing of George Orwell's How the Poor Die
George Orwell, and others
Freedom Press, London, 1946
£30.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Civil War, A Narrative
Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox. Shelby Foote's immense history of the American Civil War
Shelby Foote
Random House, New York, 2010
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Poetry London Volume 2, Number 9 (1943)
with superb lithographs by Graham Sutherland
Tambimuttu, (editor)
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£150.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Ordinary Families
First edition, family novel of Pin Mill, Suffolk
E Arnot Robertson
Jonathan Cape, London, 1933
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Born in Captivity
The first US edition
John Wain, dustwrapper design by Susan Foster
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1954
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Life with Picasso
US Book-of-the-Month club, but a decent copy
Francoise Gilot, and Carlton Lake
McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1964
£12.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Writer's Dilemma
With essays by Saul Bellow, William Golding, Richard Wollheim etc
Stephen Spender, editor.
Oxford University Press, London, 1961
£12.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Tale for the Time Being (Signed copy)
Signed by Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki
Canongate, Edinburgh, 2013
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
In the Footsteps of the Whitechapel Murders (Signed copy)
Signed by John F Plimmer, modern Police methods on the Jack the Ripper murders
John F Plimmer
The Book Guild, Lewes, 1998
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Best Short Stories 1937
includes Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Edward J O'Brien, (editor), including Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter & William Saroyan
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1937
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Light That Failed
Kipling's first novel, in a half vellum binding by Alfonso Dori of Florence
Rudyard Kipling
Heinemann & Balestier, Leipzig, 1891
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
The Stone Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Carol Shields, a fine copy
Carol Shields
Viking, New York, 1994
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Devil's Larder (Signed copy)
Signed by Jim Crace
Jim Crace
Viking, London, 2001
£8.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Search of Light
The Broadcasts of Ed Murrow, 1938–1961
Ed Murrow, introduction by Edward Bliss Jr. and a Foreword by Harold Macmillan
Macmillan, London, 1968
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Village Homes of England
Charming period leather binding, and lovely colour plates
Charles Holme, illustrated by Sydney R Jones, Wilfred Ball, and John Fullwood
Studio Publications, London, 1912
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Sense and Sensibility
A nice pocket edition
Jane Austen
Thomas Nelson, London, 1950
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Love and Freindship
Jane Austen's early works
Jane Austen, with a preface by G K Chesterton
Chatto & Windus, London, 1930
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
A Passage to India
Third impression
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1924
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover
A Note in Music
Rosamond Lehmann's second novel, semi-autobiographical
Rosamond Lehmann
Chatto & Windus, London, 1930
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Echoing Grove (Signed copy)
Signed by Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann, dustwrapper design by Gerald Wilkinson
Collins & The Book Society, London, 1953
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Imitation of Christ
Fine vellum binding, with the bookplate of Gwendolen McBryde (nee Grotrian)
Thomas a Kempis
Lawrence & Bullen, London, 1898
£80.00
Religions | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Service of All the Dead
The fourth Inspector Morse novel, first US edition.
Colin Dexter
St Martin's Press, New York, 1979
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Morale (Signed copy)
Signed by George Berrie, a story of the Australian Light Horsemen in the Great War
George Berrie, with a foreword by Lt.-Colonel M F Bruxner
Holland & Stephenson, Sydney, 1949
£80.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
