Recent Additions
Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers
A facsimile edition of Walter Crane's 1889 classic
Walter Crane
Windward, Leicester, 1980
£15.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
English Folk Heroes
1948, Christina Hole's account of Robin Hood, King Arthur etc
Christina Hole, illustrated by Eric King
Batsford, London, 1948
£12.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Incendiary (Signed copy)
Signed by Zoraida Cordova
Zoraida Cordova
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Castles on the Ground
1973, 2nd ed, with a new set of illustrations by John Piper
J M Richards, illustrated by John Piper
John Murray, London, 1973
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Merry England
1960, first edition beautifully illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Cyril Ray, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Vista Books, London, 1960
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Illuminating the Renaissance
The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
Thomas Kren, and Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyzer, Richard Gay, Elizabeth Morrison, Catherine Reynolds
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Birds of Ancient Egypt
Patrick Houlihan's comprehensive study of the role of birds in Ancient Egypt
Patrick F Houlihan, with the collaboration of and preliminary checklist to the Birds of Egypt by Steven M Goodman
The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1988
£15.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
Cloth is the Center of the World
Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives. A 2001 exhibition catalogue
Susan J Torntore, editor
The Goldstein Museum of Design, St Pauls, MN, 2001
£20.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Encyclopedia of the Occult
1988, A compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism
Lewis Spence
Bracken Books, London, 1988
£25.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Brewing
A 1912 guide from the President of the Institute of Brewing
A Chaston Chapman
University Press, Cambridge, 1912
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
Unto This Last
1893, Ruskin's essays on Policital Economy in a simple Arts and Crafts leather binding
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1893
On Hold
Essays | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Modern Dancing and Dancers
1912, quite a rare first edition on danciing, ballet, dancers, morris dancing...
J E Crawford Flitch
Grant Richards, London, 1912
£40.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Suffolk Harvest
Adrian Bell's diary of a life in the countryside
Adrian Bell
The Bodley Head, London, 1956
£15.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Edward Halliday, Art for Life 1925–1939
The first monograph on this Liverpudlian artist
Ann Compton
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1997
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Flora
An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Edward Thomas and the Great War (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Saunders
Christopher Saunders
Cecil Woolf, London, 2006
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Volume 2
1885, ex-library but in strong readable condition
Charles Darwin
John Murray, London, 1885
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover
Worthing, A Survey of Times Past and Present
1938, with a 1900s copy of Bacon's map of Worthing and environs
F W H Migeod, editor
The Southern Publishing Co Ltd, Brighton & Worthing, 1938
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by George Hayim
George Hayim
Quartet Books, London, 1988
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Don McCullin (Signed copy)
Signed by Don McCullin, a superb selection of his photography
Don McCullin, introduction by Harold Evans, essay by Susan Sontag
Jonathan Cape, London, 2001
£70.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Frederic, Lord Leighton cut signature
Mid to late 19th century, on 2 Holland Park Road headed paper
Frederic Leighton
Not Published, London, n.d.
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
The Crystal Sun (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Temple, "Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World"
Robert Temple, introduction by Arthur C Clarke
Century, London, 2000
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Evolution of the English House
1898, first edition of S O Addy's history of domestic architecture
Sidney Oldall Addy
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The King's Drum
A collection of African folk tales (1963)
Harold Courlander, illustrated by Enrico Arno
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Heroes of Kalevala
1973, a collection of folk tales from Finland
Irma Kaplan, illustrated by Barbara Brown
Frederick Muller, London, 1973
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
