Recent Additions
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
