Recent Additions
Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer
1934, first edition of Smith-Dampier's translation of the Faroëse ballad cycle
E M Smith-Dampier
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1934
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Unsentimental Journeys, or Byways in Modern Babylon
James Greenwood's observations among the London poor of 1867
James Greenwood
Ward, Lock & Tyler, London, 1867
Sold
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Seeing Things, An Autobiography (Signed copy)
Signed by Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2000
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Death of the Moth and other essays
with the signed bookplate of E M Almedingen
Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press, London, 1947
£20.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Association Copy
Winter Trees
A lovely copy of Sylvia Plath's poetry
Sylvia Plath
Faber & Faber, London, 1971
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Czech Conspiracy
A Phase in the World-War Plot
George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
The Boswell Publishing Company Limited, London, 1938
£120.00
History | Hard Cover
The Seed Beneath the Snow
An anti-fascist novel from Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone, translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye
Jonathan Cape, London, 1943
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Franciscan Message to the World
The life and spirituality of St Francis
Agostino Gemelli, translated and adapted by Henry Louis Hughes
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1934
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Psychology of Thought
Approached through studies of sleeping and dreaming
H L Hollingworth
D Appleton, New York, 1926
£20.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Happy Isles of Oceania (Signed copy)
Signed by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1992
£10.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Pillars of Hercules (Signed copy)
Signed by Paul Theroux, a grand tour of the Mediterranean
Paul Theroux
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1995
£10.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Doctor Slaughter (Signed copy)
Signed by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Tales of the Nineties
Stories from a bawdy house, with six lovely woodcuts
Henry Von Rhau, woodcuts by Frank Peers
Privately printed, New York, 1930
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Collected Poems of W B Yeats
with illustrations by Jack B Yeats
W B Yeats, in an attractive quarter leather binding
The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1979
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Folk Lore of Fairy-Tale
1924, a first edition examining the mythology of fairy tales
Macleod Yearsley
Watts & Co, London, 1924
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Legends from River and Mountain
Folk tales from Roumania and Germany
Carmen Sylva, (H.M. the Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell, illustrated by T H Robinson
George Allen, London, 1896
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
G.P.U. Justice
The workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s
Maurice Edelman
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Rising Sun
Vol 3 of Cervantes Hogg's "Serio-Comic Satiric Romance"
Cervantes Hogg, pseud Eaton Stannard Barrett
Appleyards, London, 1807
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Liliecrona's Home & Charlotte Loweskold
Two Selma Lagerlof first editions
Selma Lagerlof
Various, London, 1913
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Two Prisoners
First edition of the Hungarian novelist's classic work
Lajos Zilahy, translated by Joseph Collins and Ida Zeitlin
William Heinemann, London, 1931
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Strange Soldiering (Signed copy)
Signed by Brigadier John Mackenzie, GOC Nigerian Army.
John Lawson, foreword by Brigadier John A Mackenzie
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Miracles of Antichrist
Selma Lagerlof's second book
Selma Lagerlof, translated from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach
Gay and Bird, London, 1899
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Behind the Cockpit Door (Signed copy)
Signed by Arthur Whitlock, the illustrated memoirs of an airline pilot
Arthur Whitlock
Merlin Books Ltd, Braunton, Devon, 1991
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Samuel John, A Biography (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Martin
Peter Martin
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Month in the Country
The Folio Society's edition of J L Carr's wonderful novel
J L Carr, introduced by Ronald Blythe. Illustrated by Ian Stephens
The Folio Society, London, 1999
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
