Recent Additions

Signed by Robert Temple, "Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World"

Century, London, 2000

1898, first edition of S O Addy's history of domestic architecture

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898

A collection of African folk tales (1963)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963

1973, a collection of folk tales from Finland

Frederick Muller, London, 1973

A collection of Armenian folk and fairy tales

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1969

1912, first edition of Andrew and Leonora Lang's telling of the saints' stories

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1912

and Veronica at the Wells. both 1953 hardbacks in wrappers

Evans Brothers, London, 1953

with a Treatise on Scottish Hand Firearms. 1923, limited edition, rebound in half-leather

Philip Lee Warner, London, 1923

A Social History of the Drum Kit

Oxford University Press, New York, 2020

1901, a rare first edition of Charles Aubert's book on mime

E Meuriot, Paris, 1901

Signed by Barbara Ker Wilson

Secker & Warburg, London, 1984

1906, a rare first printing of Reginald St Johnston's history

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London, 1906

A comprehensive history taking in Theosophy, Aleister Crowley, the Order of the Golden Dawn and P.D. Ouspensky

Duckworth & Co, London, 2002

Volume one of Keith Windschuttle's series: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847

Macleay Press, Sydney, 2002

1951, J D Bernal's 1947 lecture to the Physics Society

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1951

Second edition of Christopher Caudwell's analysis

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1949

1942, J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942

W H Hoskin's Illustrated Essay on the History of the Landscape (1957)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957

1932, Wyndham Lewis's attack on the aesthetic artistic society of the time, in the original dustwrapper

Grayson & Grayson, London, 1932

The first UK printing of William L Shirer's diary of Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1941

Three novels and three plays by H H Munro

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1949

c1950, a pocket book of cocktails

21 Brands Inc, New York, 1950

Church notices, short stories, home help, adverts...

Not stated, Madras (Chennai), 1928

1977, first printing of Roald Dahl's short stories

Jonathan Cape, London, 1977

Signed by Pete Paphides

Quercus, London, 2020