Recent Additions
A Bibliography of the Works of Rupert Brooke
1959, second edition, a comprehensive list of the poet's works
Geoffrey Keynes
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Letters of Rupert Brooke
1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems
A scarce 1913 second printing of Rupert Brooke's early verse
Rupert Brooke
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1913
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Rupert Brooke, A Memoir
1918, the first separate edition of Edward Marsh's memoir
Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1918
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First thus
Four books by or about Rupert Brooke
1915–1918, early printings including a 1st of Edward Marsh's Memoir
Rupert Brooke, and Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
King of Space
1954, first edition, an adventure for W E John's Group-Captain Timothy 'Tiger' Clinton
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Stead
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Man Who Vanished in Space
1963, first edition, another adventure for W E John's spaceship Tavona.
Captain W E Johns
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Biggles Goes Alone
1962, first printing in an unclipped wrapper
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Stead
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1962
£60.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Lover's Gift and Crossing
1918, Rabindranath Tagore's writings and verse on love, religion, culture...
Rabindranath Tagore
Macmillan, London, 1918
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Place Names in Kent
1921, the Hams, Hithes, Stones and Tons...
Canon J W Horsley
South Eastern Gazette, Maidstone, 1921
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
God Made Blind. Isaac Rosenberg, His Life and Poetry (Signed copy)
Signed by Deborah Maccoby
Deborah Maccoby
Symposium Press, 1998
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Four books on artist and poet Isaac Rosenberg
All are first editions
Various, including Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Joseph Cohen & Jean Liddiard
Various, London, 1975
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Soldier Poets, Songs of the Fighting Men
1916, the "Trench Edition" including C H Sorley, W N Hodgson, and Julian Grenfell
Galloway Kyle, preface, contributors include Charles Hamilton Sorley and Julian Grenfell
Erskine Macdonald, London, 1916
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Poems
1917, the second printing of Edward Thomas's first collection of poetry
Edward Thomas, (Edward Eastaway)
Selwyn & Blount, London, 1917
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Masks of Time, A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative
1925, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's verse, including his war poetry
Edmund Blunden, decorations and initial letters by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1925
£32.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Warwick Edition of George Eliot, 1901. Nine volumes
Near complete, comprising Middlemarch, Scenes of Clerical life, Felix Holt, Romola, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1901
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
National Trust Guide: Buildings
James Lees-Milne's 1948 guide to over 100 properties
James Lees-Milne, wrapper and libe drawings by S R Badmin
Batsford, London, 1948
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dust in the Lion's Paw, Autobiography 1939–1946
A very good copy of the fourth volume of Freya Stark's autobiography
Freya Stark
John Murray, London, 1962
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Diary of a Young Girl
1952, the first UK edition of Anne Frank's remarkable diary
Anne Frank, translated from the Dutch by B M Mooyart-Doubleday, with a foreword by Storm Jameson
Constellation Books, London, 1952
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Watt
The Olympia Press's first trade edition of 1958, and Beckett's second novel
Samuel Beckett
The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Places Where They Sing & Sound the Retreat (Signed copy)
With a typed letter signed by Simon Raven, the sixth book in the Alms for Oblivion series.
Simon Raven
Anthony Blond, London, 1970
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Miss May, The Story of an Englishwoman (Signed copy)
Signed by SOE agent and gulag-survivor Mary Allison Miske (Miss May)
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The House at Pooh Corner
1929, the third edition
A A Milne, with decorations by E H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1929
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
The Road to Life (An Epic of Education)
A S Makarenko's account of the Maxim Gorky Colony
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, designed by I Tsarevich
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1955
Sold
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Architecture for Children
1945, Jane and Maxwell Fry's illustrated guide
Jane and Maxwell Fry
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1945
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
