Recent Additions
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The War Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45
with postcard signed by the publisher, Nicola Beauman
Vere Hodgson, with a new preface by Jenny Hartley
Persephone Books, London, 1999
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Historique de 244e Regiment D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1 Avril 1917—30 Janvier 1919
A 1919 French WW1 regimental history with Roll of Honour
Not stated
Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Historique des 44e, 244e et 264e Regiments D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1914–1918
French WW1 regimental history including Roll of Honour
Not stated
Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Homes and Gardens 1940—all 12 issues January to December
Architecture, decor, clothing and fashion, food, air raid defence...
Homes and Gardens Magazine
Country Life, London, 1940
Sold
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Well-Beloved
1897, first US edition on book form of Thomas Hardy's final novel
Thomas Hardy, frontispiece by H Macbeth-Raeburn
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Aristide Maillol (Signed copy)
From the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Bertrand Lorquin
Thames and Hudson, London, 1995
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Igor Mitoraj (Signed copy)
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Donald Kuspit, and Giovanni Testori (text), introduction by John Russell Taylor. Photographs by Liberto Perugi
Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1992
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Glass Mender & other stories
Maurice Baring's tales, some with a supernatural element, illustrated by S.B.
Maurice Baring, illustrated by S.B.
William Heinemann, London, 1926
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Maltese Cat
1955, Kipling's story of a polo playing pony in India
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Lionel Edwards
Macmillan, London, 1955
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Novels of Thomas Peacock
1948, Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle, and Gryll Grange
Thomas Peacock, edited by David Garnett. Dustwrapper by Joan Hassall.
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Naval Mutinies of 1797, Unity and Perseverance
A comprehensive study
Ann Veronica Coats, and Philip MacDougall, editors
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2011
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Kipps, The Story of a Simple Soul
1905, the first edition of the novel H G Wells's considered his favourite
H G Wells
Macmillan, London, 1905
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938, On the Edge of the Abyss of Time
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Norbert Wolf
Taschen, Koln, 2003
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
War Requiem & Aftermath
2013, Maggi Hambling's art featuring paintings of battlefields and war victims.
Maggi Hambling, with James Cahill
Unicorn Press, London, 2015
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Serbia: The History of an Idea
First edition of this comprehensive study
Stevan K Pavlowitch
New York University Press, New York, 2002
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Carlisle House, Carlisle Street, Soho, London
1936, a rare if brief history, in a fine Bickers & Son full leather binding
J Brooke Wilkinson, author identified by printed initials at end of text
British Board of Film Censors, London, 1936
£120.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Dear Philip
A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942–1945
Freddy Bloom
The Bodley Head, London, 1980
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz
and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz, with Amanda Sebestyen, and Anne Marreco
Virago, London, 1987
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2
Mary Thomas
Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover
Hugh Walpole, handwritten signed letter
c1921, from York Terrace, NW1
Hugh Walpole
Not Published, London, 1921
£35.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales
1926, with 16 colour plates by Warwick Goble
Grace James, illustrated by Warwick Goble
Macmillan, London, 1926
£50.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover
The Shepherd's Farm, The Balcony, The Green Bond
Three hardbacks from Adrian Bell
Adrian Bell
Various, London & Ipswich, n.d.
£12.00
Collections | Hard Cover
General Ludd (Signed copy)
Signed by John Metcalf, the author's second novel
John Metcalf
ECW Press, Downsview, Ontario, 1980
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Beauty of Flight
1932, a first edition of Manfred Curry's book of aerial photography
Manfred Curry, with a preface by C R Fairey
John Miles, London, 1932
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Quest for Arthur's Britain
1968, first edition of Geoffrey Ashe's study of King Arthur's Britain
Geoffrey Ashe
The 'Pall Mall' Press, London, 1968
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
