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Biggles Flies South
The first printing of 1938, in the original dustwrapper
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle
Oxford University Press, London, 1938
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Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Henry Ponsonby, 1870 signed envelope with royal seal in black wax
and two cabinet card portraits of Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria
Henry Ponsonby
Not Published, Windsor, 1870
£50.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover
Original photograph: Tarporley, Cheshire 1886
showing two ladies, a horse and cart, and a pug by an ostlers
Not stated
Not stated, Tarporley, 1886
£20.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover
Parachute Padre
1951, Rev J Fraser McLuskey's service in Occupied France with the 1st SAS in 1944
J Fraser McLuskey
SCM Press, London, 1951
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Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Garrick Club
1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies
C K Adams, compiler
The Garrick Club, London, 1936
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Luftwaffe Fighter Ace (Signed copy)
Signed by Norbert Hannig, and the translator John Weal
Norbert Hannig, translated by John Weal
Grub Street, London, 2004
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nicholas Copernicus 1543–1943
Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand
Stephen P Mizwa
The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Slipcase
Five books on William Hogarth and his Times
three with the ownership mark of Jill Allibone, architectural historian
Various, including Peter Quennell
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover
A Biography of David Cox; with remarks on his Works and Genius
1881, first edition of this study of the Birmingham artist David Cox
William Hall, edited, with additions, by John Thackray Bunce
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London, 1881
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
G F Watts
from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge
W Loftus Hare
T C & E C Jack, London, 1910
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Artists of the 1890's
1928, this copy from the library of architect of Roderick Gradidge
John Rothenstein
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1928
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Blackberries
Am 1893 edition of William Allingham's verse
William Allingham
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1893
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Heart of the Heartless World
Essays in Cultural Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann
David Margolies, and Maroula Joannou
Pluto Press, London, 1995
£10.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Lectures on Art
1882, 1st edition, William Morris, E J Poynter et al...
William Morris, with Reginald Stuart Poole, Prof W B Richmond, J T Micklethwaite, and E J Poynter, RA
Macmillan, London, 1882
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, Violin and Viola (Signed copy)
Signed by Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner, and Léon Goossens
Yehudi Menuhin, and William Primrose
Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1976
£40.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Dare to be Wise (Signed copy)
Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh
Violet Vanbrugh
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
On Landscape Design: In the Words of Masters through the Centuries (Signed copy)
Signed by Charles Aldington
Charles Aldington
Intramuros Books, 2020
£40.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Elegy in a Country Churchyard
A 1908 pocket edition of Thomas Gray's poem, with An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray, illustrated by J T Friedenson
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1908
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
12 Books on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Holman Hunt, Millais, Burne-Jones etc
Various
Various, London, Liverpool etc, n.d.
£45.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Writing (Signed copy)
This copy signed by Stephen Tennant from Wilsford Manor
Willa Cather, with a foreword by Stephen Tennant
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1962
£150.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
George Stubbs 1724–1806
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling
Judy Egerton, introduction
Tate Gallery, London, 1984
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Art and the Industrial Revolution
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling
Francis D Klingender, edited and revised by Arthur Elton
Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling
Donelson F Hoopes
Studio Vista, London, 1971
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
German Romanticism and English Art
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling
William Vaughan
Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1979
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy