Recent Additions
Artist's Model
1953, John Everard's photographic studies of the human form including nudes
John Everard, introduction and commentary by Charles Simpson
The Bodley Head, London, 1953
£15.00
Photography | Hard Cover
Therese
1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's novel
Francois Mauriac, translated by Eric Sutton
Martin Secker, London, 1928
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative
The radical American poet's second book, 1929
Walter Lowenfels, with a prefatory note by Humbert Wolfe
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Spy and his Masters
1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Playe
1966, first edition, 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Irving Chernev
Faber & Faber, London, 1966
Sold
Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962
Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Golden Lotus
Clement Egerton's four volume translation of Chin P'ing Mei
Clement Egerton, his translation after Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (attrib)
Graham Brash, Singapore, 1980
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Slipcase
The Moving Waters
1956, John Stewart Collis's study of water in all its forms
John Stewart Collis, illustrated by Nicholas Egon
The Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1956
£12.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Guide to the Stars
Patrick Moore's 1960 title, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Patrick Moore, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Scientific Book Club, London, 1960
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Another Country
James Baldwin's 1963 classic, with superb dustwrapper art by Noelle Sandwith
James Baldwin, dustwrapper by Noelle Ora Sandwith
The Book Club, London, 1963
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Coming of the Monster
A Tale of the Masterful Monk (Problems of Human Happiness V)—1938
Owen Francis Dudley
Longmans, London, 1938
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee
1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1964, The Reprint Society's edition
John Le Carre
The Reprint Society, London, 1964
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Two A J P Taylor first editions
Englishmen and Others (1956) and From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1966)
A J P Taylor
Various, London, 1956
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends
A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Red Square at Noon
1973, the first Penguin edition
Natalia Gorbanevskaya, translated by Alexander Lieven
Penguin Books, London, 1973
£10.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
A London Family Between the Wars
1940, first edition of life in Cuffley in the 1920s & 1930s
M Vivian Hughes
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
Sold
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables
1929, first edition of Mackail's short stories
Denis Mackail
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£15.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)
A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Barbara Ninde Byfield, illustrated by the author
Macmillan, New York, 1967
£60.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 47, July to December 1884
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, including an early photo-lithograph of the Statue of Liberty
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1884
£60.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 45, July to December 1883
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, a remarkable sourcebook of Victorian architecture
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1883
£120.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Cyrano de Bergerac
1920, in an attractive quarter leather binding
Edmond Rostand
Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, Paris, 1920
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James's Gifford lectures of 1901 & 1902
William James
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1928
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover
Beyond Khyber Pass
c1932, No 11 in Hutchinson's Booklover's Library
Lowell Thomas
Hutchinson, London, 1932
£12.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
