Recent Additions
The Land of the Children
1928, a novel of the Russian Revolution
S Gussiev Orenburgsky, translated from the Russian by Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Scots Quair
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Hutchinson, London, 1971
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Dawn's Left Hand
1931, a first printing of the tenth volume in Dorothy M Richardson's Pilgrimage sequence
Dorothy M Richardson
Duckworth & Co, London, 1931
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Pilate's Wife
French author Jean Damase's first novel
Jean Damase, translated from the French by Arthur Mayne
Duckworth & Co, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Warrior's Path
A Native American kidnap novel from American author Don Ryan
Don Ryan
Duckworth & Co, London, 1937
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Narrow World and Green Girl
A novel about a girls' boarding school between the wars, and its sequel
Priscilla Johnston
Duckworth & Co, London, 1930
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Witch Poems
A collection of poems about witches, superbly illustrated
Daisy Wallace, editor. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Pepper Press, London, 1980
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Plant Hunter in Manipur
1952, first edition of Frank Kingdom-Ward's expedition
Frank Kingdon-Ward
Jonathan Cape, London, 1952
£10.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fairey Aircraft since 1915 (Signed copy)
Signed by H A Taylor
H A Taylor
Putnam, London, 1974
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The High Window and Spanish Blood
A second and first printing of two Raymond Chandler thrillers
Raymond Chandler
World Publishing, Cleveland and New York, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rembrandt the Printmaker
2001, The British Museum's profusely illustrated study
Erik Hinterding, with Ger Luitjen and Martin Royalton-Kisch
The British Museum Press, London, 2001
£40.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Green and Silver (Signed copy)
Signed by L T C Rolt, his canal journey in Southern Ireland
L T C Rolt, with photographs by Angela Rolt
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1949
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Logic as a Positive Science
Della Volpe's efforts to establish a scientific logic free of any aprioristic speculation
Galvano Della Volpe
NLB, London, 1980
£12.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Imaginary Portraits
Pater's studies of fictional characters
Walter Pater
Macmillan, London, 1887
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tales of Bielkin
1947, first thus of Pushkin's first prose works
Alexander Pushkin, drawings by Donia Nachshen. Translated from the Russian by Evgenia Schimanskaya and M Elizabeth Gow
Lindsay Drummond, London, 1947
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
To Kiss the Crocodile
A "lost gay novel" from 1928, and actor Ernest Milton's only novel
Ernest Milton
Duckworth & Co, London, 1928
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Philip Webb and his Work
1935, the first edition of W R Lethaby's study
W R Lethaby
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1935
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper
1853, in an ornate gilt binding by John Leighton
William Cowper, binding design initialled by John Leighton
Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh, 1853
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Le Monde Fou Préferé au Monde Sage
1733, an early French language edition of Marie Hubin's The World Unmask'd
Marie Huber, though published anonymously
Wetsteins & Smith, Amsterdam, 1733
£50.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Diary of Frida Kahlo, An Intimate Self-Portrait
A facsimile of the artist's diary
Frida Kahlo, introduction by Carlos Fuentes, essay and commentaries by Sarah M Lowe
Abrams, New York, 1995
£12.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Women of Molise, An Italian Village, 1950
The photographer's images and recollections
Frank Monaco
Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2001
£30.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
How It Is
Samuel Beckett's harrowing novel in three parts
Samuel Beckett, translated from the French by the author. Dustwrapper by John Sewell
John Calder, London, 1964
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Oxford Poetry 1925
including early work by Graham Greene, C Day Lewis and Harold Acton
Patrick Monkhouse, and Charles Plumb (editors)
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Woodcut
Bryan Nash Gill's tree cross-section art
Bryan Nash Gill, foreword by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2012
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare
In a decorative painted calf binding, 6 vols including the Tragedies, Comedies, Biography and Doubtful Plays
William Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1842
£150.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
