Recent Additions
Certified Sane
N Helene Jeanty's wartime diary, claiming insanity to fool the Gestapo
Ninette Helene Jeanty, translated by R C Roberts, introduction by Dame Sybil Thorndike
Sheppard Press, London, 1948
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mearing Stones
1911, Joseph Campbell's travels around Donegal with 16 full-page illustrations
Joseph Campbell, also as Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, illustrated by the author
Maunsel & Co Ltd, Dublin, 1911
£120.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Pain, Sex and Time
A New Hypothesis of Evolution—and James Dean's favourite book!
Gerald Heard
Cassell, London, 1940
£40.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover
Ethnology in Folklore
Published in Lubbock's Modern Science series
George Laurence Gomme
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1892
£12.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Piers Prodigal and other poems (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Davie, his first published book of poetry
Ian Davie, foreword by Siegfried Sassoon
Harvill Press, London, 1961
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Running Late (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse
Hutchinson, London, 2006
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters
Complete in three paperback volumes, covering 1955–1962
Rupert Hart-Davis, editor
John Murray, London, 1985
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Witness of Science (Signed copy)
Signed by R McNair Wilson, a study of religion and science
Robert McNair Wilson
John Murray, London, 1942
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Publii Terentii Cathaginiensis Afro Comoedia Sex
Terence's plays, published in 1736 by Westminster College
Terence
Collegii Westmonasteriensis, London, 1736
£40.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Dark Goddess (Signed copy)
Signed by Hallam Tennyson
Hallam Tennyson
Vallentine, Mitchell, London, 1956
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Psychology of the Thinker (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by Margaret Lowenfeld, British pioneer of child psychology and play therapy
I B Saxby
University of London Press, London, 1926
£50.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Blueback (Signed copy)
Signed by Tim Winton
Tim Winton, illustrated by Andrew Davidson
Picador, London, 1998
£17.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Hands in a Live Fire (Signed copy)
Signed by Ted Walker, a collection of his verse 1965–1977
Ted Walker
Secker & Warburg, London, 1987
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Shadowed Mirror (Signed copy)
Signed by Joan Medhurst, quite a scarce 1950s race novel
Joan Medhurst
Cassell, London, 1959
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Hessian Tapestry
A tumultuous history of the Hesse family and its Royal connections
David Duff
Frederick Muller, London, 1967
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
New Poems
Dora Sigerson Shorter's 1912 collection
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Maunsel & Co Ltd, Dublin, 1912
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Melodies of English Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by Lewis Kennedy Morse to Jose Castillejo
Lewis Kennedy Morse
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1916
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Swimming
A fantastic Edwardian book, including ho to smoke underwater
Montague A Holbein
C Arthur Pearson, London, 1904
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Threads
A book of poetry from Dorothy Quick, one of Mark Twain's Angel Fish
Dorothy Quick
Erskine Macdonald, London, 1927
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Paul Verlaine
A pocket biography of the French Decadent poet
Wilfred Thorley
Constable, London, 1914
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lewis Carroll's Library
facsimile of the auction after LC's death, from the library of Morton N Cohen
Jeffrey Stern
The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1981
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Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First Editions
Vagabond (Signed copy)
Signed by A P Wolf
A P Wolf
Fourth Estate, London, 1991
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Difficult Love
1927, an early collection of verse from L A G Strong
L A G Strong
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Evening in Spring
August Derleth's novel of first love
August Derleth
Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, 1945
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Pity for Women
First UK edition of the first to novels of de Montherlant's tetralogy (Les Jeunes Filles and Pitie pour Les Femmes)
Henri de Motherlant
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1937
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
