Recent Additions
The Riddle of the Sands
A 1927 reading copy.
Erskine Childers
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1927
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Violins of Saint-Jacques
A bright copy of the third printing (1958)
Patrick Leigh Fermor, decorated by Robin Ironside
John Murray & Andre Deutsch, London, 1958
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Loss of the Titanic
Survivor Laurence Beesley's first-hand account
Laurence Beesley
Philip Allan, London, 1929
£18.00
History | Hard Cover
Sturford Mead Visitor Book (Signed copy)
Signed by Kingsley Amis & Elizabeth Jane Howard, Craigie Aitchison, Diana Cooper, Adrian Daintrey and many more
Not stated
Not Published, 1975
£150.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Leather Bound | Association Copy
Abelard-Schuman 1973 Book Fair Flyer
With 8 drawings by Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman
Abelard-Schuman, 1973
£30.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Golden Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion
Communist spy Percy Glading's copy, in deluxe full leather by Studley
James George Frazer
Macmillan, London, 1950
£200.00
Religions | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Association Copy
The Burden of Isis (Edward Thomas interest)
Signed by Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley
James Teackle Dennis, translator
John Murray, London, 1910
£600.00
Edward Thomas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
George Herbert and the Liturgy of the Church of England
Signed by Rosemary M Van Wengen-Shute
R M Van Wengen-Shute
Drukkerij de Kempenaer, Oegstgeest, 1981
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Earthworks (Signed copy)
Signed by Tony Harrison on the occasion of his eightieth birthday
Tony Harrison, as T W Harrison
School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, 1964
£80.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Out of the Blue (Signed copy)
Signed by Laddie Lucas and Gus Halliday; The Role of Luck in Air Warfare 1917–1966
Laddie Lucas, (editor), illustrated by Michael Trim
Hutchinson, London, 1985
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Wreck of the Titanic
1912, parlour music by Haydon Augarde, with dramatic cover
Haydon Augarde, pseud. Charles Arthur Rawlings
The Lawrence Wright Music Co, London, 1912
£50.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Last Barricade
Mervyn Jones' third novel in a super Pat Marriott wrapper
Mervyn Jones
Jonathan Cape, London, 1953
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
With a Camera in Majorca
1907, illustrated with photographs by Mrs R M King
Margaret D'Este
G P Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1907
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
African Game Trails
Roosevelt's Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1910
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Adversary of Men (Signed copy)
Signed by Ferenc Kormendi, a drama about Hitler and Satan
Ferenc Kormendi, dustwrapper design by Feliks Topolski
Secker & Warburg, London, 1941
£50.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1993
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Coleridge, Early Visions (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Holmes.
Richard Holmes
Hodder and Stoughton, London , 1989
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Coleridge, Darker Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Holmes.
Richard Holmes
HarperCollins, London, 1998
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sidetracks (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Holmes, explorations of a romantic biographer...
Richard Holmes
HarperCollins, London, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Le Chambre du Crime
An early locked room mystery, and from the library of A J Balfour at Whittinghame
Eugene Chavette
E Dentu, Paris, 1875
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Les Chats
Champfleury's wonderful book on cats (1869, third ed)
Champfleury, illustrated by Delacriox, Manet, Mind, Merimee etc etc
J Rothschild, Paris, 1869
£150.00
Animals & Pets | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Last Years of the Protectorate 1656–1658
Two volumes, complete
Charles Harding Firth
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1909
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Beirut Drawings 1944–1947 (Signed copy)
Signed by Stanislaw Frenkiel to potter William Newland
Stanislaw Frenkiel, foreword by Anthony Dyson
Bushra Fakhoury, London, 1986
Sold
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Devils of Loudon
Huxley's retelling of the trial of Urbain Grandier in 1634
Aldous Huxley, dustwrapper by Biro
Chatto & Windus, London, 1952
£30.00
Paranormal & Supernatural | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Overloaded Ark
Gerald Durrell's first book
Gerald Durrell, illustrated by Sabine Baur
Faber & Faber, London, 1953
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
