Recent Additions
Jacques-Louis David
Proof copy of Anita Brookner's study
Anita Brookner
Chatto & Windus, London, 1980
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Guide to Ripon and Fountains Abbey
Harrogate and Bolton Priory, including a fold-out map
John Richard Walbran, revised by the Rev Canon Raine and William Fowler Stephenson
A Johnson & Co, Ripon, 1875
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover
Caprices (1893) and Orchids (1896)
Wratislaw's verse from the decadent 1890s
Theodore Wratislaw
Woodstock, Oxford, 1994
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Buckingham, The Life and Career of George Villiers (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Roger Locker to Professor Morton Cohen
Roger Lockyer
Longmans, London, 1984
£25.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
you can find inspiration in everything* (signed copy)
Signed by Paul Smith, with enclosures and the original drawstring bag
Paul Smith
Violette Editions, London, 2003
£60.00
Fashion & Costume | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Kodak Mantra Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair
Beat Scene Magazine, Coventry, 2006
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Satirical poems and Others (Signed copy)
Signed by Graham Ovenden
Graham Ovenden
Turangalila Press, St Columb, Cornwall, 1983
£50.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Peter Warlock
A Memoir of Philip Heseltine
Cecil Gray, contributions by Sir Richard Terry & Robert Nichols, foreword by Augustus John
Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover
The West Pier
First edition of the first book in Patrick Hamilton's Gorse trilogy
Constable, London, 1951
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Dope Ring
Classic Golden Age crime
John Hill
Methuen, London, 1931
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
So You Want to be an Actor? (Signed copy)
Signed by Prunella Scales and Timothy West
Prunella Scales, and Timothy West
Nick Hern Books, London, 2005
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Franz Berwald (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Layton; a critical study of the Swedish composer
Robert Layton, with a foreword by Professor Gerald Abraham
Anthony Blond, London, 1959
£40.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Engineers' Agreement on Warship Trial Trips
1901; including Torpedo Boats and Torpedo Boat Destroyers
R Sinclair Scott, & Thomas Biggart (Engineering Employers' Federation) and Alfred Sellicks & George N Barnes (Amalgamated Society of Engineers)
Engineering Employers' Federation, London, 1901
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Littlenose (Signed copy)
Signed by john Grant, and with signed Jackanory bookmark
John Grant, illustrated by the author
BBC, London, 1977
£40.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
1st Culprit, A Crime Writers' Annual (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Barnard, Liza Cody, H R F Keating, Susan Moody and Michael Z Lewin.
Liza Cody, and Michael Z Lewin (editors)
Chatto & Windus, London, 1992
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Bach and the Dance of God
Wilfrid Mellers
Faber & Faber, London, 1980
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Red Sea Sharks
Tintin & Snowy investigate arms smuggling... an early copy
Herge
Methuen, London, 1965
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
The Observer Prize Stories: The Seraph and the Zambesi
Muriel Spark's first fiction in print, winner of the Observer's Christmas Fiction contest in 1951
Muriel Spark, et al, introduction by Elizabeth Bowen
William Heinemann, London, 1952
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Practical Treatise on the Breeding Cow
1844, with thirteen fold-out plates
Edward Skellett
Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, London, 1844
£120.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover
Midwifery Illustrated
1833, with 60 plates (of 80), including two fold-out engravings
J P Maygrier, translated from the French by A Sidney Doane
Moore & Payne, New York, 1833
£120.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions
On a Glass Lightly
Simon Whistler's magnificent collection of engraved glass
Simon Whistler, foreword by Christopher Booker
Libanus Press, Marlborough, 2004
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Shepherd, The Woodlander, The Smallholder
Three books by John Seymour celebrating traditional country life
John Seymour, illustrated by Sally Seymour
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1983
£12.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Louise Bourgeois
A well-illustrated study of this influential artist
Marie-Laure Bernadac
Flammarion, Paris, 1996
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Haig
with a fine bookplate by Richard Osmond for John Theodore Radclyffe Prestige of Bourne House, Bishopsbourne, Kent (1945)
Alfred Duff Cooper
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Who's Who in the Theatre 1952
Includes a bibliography of theatrical memoirs
John Parker, and John D D Parker
Isaac Pitman, London, 1952
£15.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover
