Recent Additions
A Train to Tarragona
Anthony Carson's travels to the Spanish city
Anthony Carson, dustwrapper by Charles Mozley
Methuen, London, 1957
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Rose by Any Other Name
1960, a first edition of Anthony Carson's autobiographical sketches.
Anthony Carson, dustwrapper by Tomi Ungerer
Methuen, London, 1960
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reminiscences of the Opera
1864, the memoirs of Her Majesty's Theatre owner Benjamin Lumley
Benjamin Lumley
Hurst & Blackett, London, 1864
£70.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
Strait is the Gate
1924, the first UK edition of Andre Gide's classic novel
Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
Jarrolds, London, 1924
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Theory of Shifting Relationships in Knowledge as Seen in Medieval and Modern Times
with A Reconstruction of Newton's Thought and Essays on Art Patronage—three volumes, signed, limited edition
David Castillejo
Printed for the Author, 1967
£200.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Naval Front (Signed copy)
Signed by Gordon S Maxwell, the Royal Navy in the Great War
Gordon S Maxwell, illustrated by Donald Maxwell
A & C Black, London, 1920
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Scenes from the Fall of Troy and Other Poems, and Fragments
1915, Limited edition being Volume XXIV of the Collected Works of William Morris.
William Morris, with an introduction by his Daughter May Morris
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1915
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus
How the Voice becomes Prematurely Damaged, as in the Case of Maria Callas
A swipe at Maria Callas by Greek soprano Marika Palaisti
Marika Palaisti
Not stated, Greece, 1962
£25.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Pocket Book of Alphabets
1946, for Ornamental Penmen, Engravers, Signwriters and Draughtsmen
E & F N Spon
E & F N Spon, London, 1946
£10.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera
Photographs 1928–1983
Bill Brandt, with Mark Haworth-Booth (introduction), and David Mellor (essay)
Aperture, New York, 1985
£20.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Experiments
Norman Douglas's collected essays, this copy signed by Leslie Van Ness Denman
Norman Douglas
Robert McBride & Company, New York, 1925
£18.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ramage, and Ramge and the Drum Beat
1965 & 1967, first printings of the first two Ramage adventures
Dudley Pope
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, Mook21 Japanese Magazine
1997, including Maria Callas and Di Stefano in Japan
FM Fan
Kyodo Tsushinsha, Tokyo, 1997
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The End of Print, The Graphic Design of David Carson (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by David Carson
Lewis Blackwell, introduction by David Byrne
Laurence King, London, 1995
£100.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Alone
1921, Norman Douglas's travels around Italy
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tony O'Malley
An illustrated exhibition book from the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Enrique Juncosa, with Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Catherine Marshall, Brian Fallon MD
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2005
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Post Office Went to War
with two superb illustrations by Coombs
Ian Hay
HMSO, London, 1946
£12.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Folio Society's illustrated edition of Ken Kesey's classic
Ken Kesey, introduction by John Sutherland, illustrations by David Hughes
The Folio Society, London, 2015
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Slipcase
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
