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Poems and Prose by The Penge Poet

1899, the poetry of Joseph Gwyer, one of the world's worst poets
Joseph Gwyer, the Penge Poet
F Perraton, London, 1899
£60.00
Poetry | Hard Cover

Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)

and Euphues and his England (1580), published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
John Lyly, carefully edited by Edward Arber
Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

Rainbow Fish, Four Short Novels

Rainbow Fish, Death of a Virgin, The Other Land, and Dead End of the Sky
Ralph Bates
Jonathan Cape, London, 1937
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Miraculous Horde and other stories

Ralph Bates's short stories from the Spanish Civil War
Ralph Bates
Jonathan Cape, London, 1939
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Notes on the History of Shipbuilding in South Shields 1746–1946

with appendices
Amy C Flagg
South Tyneside Borough Council, 1979
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

A Bag of Songs (Signed copy)

Signed by Paul Simmonds, singwriter for folk group band TMTCH
Paul Simmonds
Lulu.com, 2007
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Top of the World

First UK edition of Hans Ruesch's novel of the polar Inuits
Hans Ruesch
Victor Gollancz, London, 1950
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Love and Salt-Water

First UK edition of Ethel Wilson's last novel
Ethel Wilson
Macmillan, London, 1956
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Language and Poetry of Flowers

1857, an early edition of this charming miniature Victorian book
Miss S C Edgarton
Thomas Nelson, London, 1857
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Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover

A World of Folk Tales

Five volumes of illustrated folk stories from around the world
James Riordan, with various illustrators
Paul Hamlyn, London, 1981
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions

Picturesque Sicily

1902, an illustrated tour of Sicily, with Palermo, Syracuse, Segesta etc
William Agnew Paton
Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1902
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover

The Year of Stalingrad

1946, An Historical Record and a Study of Russian Mentality, Methods and Policies
Alexander Werth
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions

Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners

A complete year of three-course meals (1915)
Mrs Elizabeth O Hiller
The N K Fairbank Company, New York, 1915
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover

RAF Yatesbury, The History

including the First and Second World Wars, illustrated
Phil Tomaselli
Phil Tomaselli, Bristol, 2004
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions

The New Canterbury Tales

1811, a rare early title from Oliver Outline, pseudonym of poet Edward Quillinan
Oliver Outline, pseudonym of Edward Quillinan
Henry Colburn, London, 1811
£80.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

D H Lawrence's Nightmare

The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War
Paul Delany
The Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Imagism, A Chapter for the History of Modern Poetry

A first edition of Stanley K Coffman's classic study
Stanley K Coffman
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951
£35.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Worst Journey in the World

1951, single volume edition with a Postscript
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Chatto & Windus, London, 1951
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First thus

A Midsummer Memory

1910, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions

Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations 1941–1945

The history of the two countries relations during the Second World War
Slobodan Nesovic, translated by Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic
Macedonian Review Editions, Skopje, 1979
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

Come all ye bold miners

Ballads and Songs from the Coalfields (1952), this copy with gift inscription from R Page Arnot
A L Lloyd, compiler
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1952
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy

Art and the Built Environment

1982, first edition of this handbook for teachers
Eileen Adams, and Colin Ward
Longman, London, 1982
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions

Pick a Pair!

A wonderful 1979 games book with 30 board games for 2 players
Frank Tapson, and Alan Parr
A & C Black, London, 1979
£20.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions

South Battersea: The Formative Years 1851–1900

A South London history
Roger Logan
Wandsworth Historical Society, London, 1977
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions

Photograph album, with original images of the Royal Yacht, Louis Mountbatten as a baby

and with candid shots of King Edward VII, and the actors of the 1900 Oberammergau Passion Play etc
John and Maud Le Couteur
Not Published, 1901
£150.00
Photography | Hard Cover

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