Recent Additions
Doctor Syn, A Tale of the Romney Marsh (Signed copy)
Signed by the author's son, the illustrator, and the publisher: Daniel Thorndike, Emily Goddard, and Liz Skilbeck
Russell Thorndike, illustrated by Emily Goddard, introduction by Daniel Thorndike
Romney Bookshop, New Romney, 1998
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
Three books on artist Samuel Palmer
including Geoffrey Grigson's The Visionary Years (1947)
Geoffrey Grigson, and Raymond Lister, The Arts Council
Various, London, n.d.
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Three books on L S LOWRY
All three profusely illustrated
Michael Howard, and Michael Leber & Judith Sandling, and Mervyn Levy
The Lowry Press et al, Salford & London, n.d.
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
2005, am extensive and comprehensive study of Van Gogh's drawings, profusely illustrated
Colta Ives, with Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, and Marije Vellekoop
Metropolitan Museum of Art / Van Gogh Museum, New York & Amsterdam, 2005
£60.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kitty Frew
1936, a novel of married life from American author Jane Abbott
Jane Abbott
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Mirror for Narcissus
1956, the second volume of Negley Farson's autobiography
Negley Farson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1956
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Roman Ways in the Weald
Ivan Margary's study of Roman roads from London through Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Ivan D Margary, with a foreword by O G S Crawford
Phoenix House, London, 1948
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A collection of five J R R Tolkien books
The Hobbit (graphic novel), Roverandom, Mr Bliss, Lord of the Rings Pocket Companion
J R R Tolkien, and David Wenzel, Brian Simmons et al
Various, London, Philadelphia, n.d.
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Winnie the Pooh
1928, 6th edition, and a very good copy
A A Milne, with decorations by E H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1928
Sold
Childrens | Hard Cover
Witches, Druids and King Arthur
Nine essays from Professor Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton
Hambledon & London, London, 2003
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Corruption of Blood (Signed copy)
Signed by Ambrose Parry (Christopher Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman)
Ambrose Parry, pen-name of Christopher Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman
Canongate, Edinburgh, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In My Own Footsteps, A Memoir (Signed copy)
Signed by Star Wars actor Michael Pennington to fellow Star Wars actor Ken Colley
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington Books, 2021
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rambles Round London Town
1891, a late Victorian tour of London sights
C L Mateaux
Cassell, London, 1891
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
Blood and Iron
1916, Impressions from the Front in France and Flanders, this copy signed by Major A A Macfarlane-Grieve
Wilson McNair
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1916
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Water Analysis
1876, A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Potable Water
J Alfred Wanklyn, and Ernest Theophron Chapman, rewritten by J Alfred Wanklyn
Trubner & Co, London, 1876
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover
Popular Astronomy
1866, A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich
George Biddell Airy
Macmillan, London, 1866
£25.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover
Home Comfort: A Complete Manual of Domestic Economy
1876, in an impressive fine black velvet and engraved white metal binding
Jane Stoker
W Stewart & Co, London, 1876
£120.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
Complete in four volumes, 1929–1989
Samuel Beckett, edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, Lois More Overbeck
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Western Women Travelling East 1716–1916
A comprehensive illustrated study of two hundred years of women's travel and writing
Penelope Tuson
The Arcadian Library & OUP, London, 2014
£80.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Legends and Folktales of Lappland
32 tales, illustrated by Arnulf Bjorndal
Valerie Stalder
Mowbrays, London and Oxford, 1972
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office 1932–1969
Sir Roderick Barclay's account of his time in government
Sir Roderick Barclay
Printed for the Author, London, 1975
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ashcombe, The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease
Cecil Beaton's account of his time at Ashcombe
Cecil Beaton, foreword by Hugo Vickers
Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 1999
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
Black Beauty
1940, a nice hardback edition in dustwrapper
Anna Sewell
A & C Black, London, 1940
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
David Gentleman's London (Signed copy)
1985, signed by David Gentleman
David Gentleman
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
1821, the fourth edition, complete in two volumes and containing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
John Murray, London, 1821
£175.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
