Recent Additions
The Flurried Years
Violet Hunt's autobiography
Violet Hunt
Hurst & Blackett, London, 1926
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Edgell Rickword, A Poet at War
Biography of the WW1 and influential Left wing thinker
Charles Hobday
Carcanet, Manchester, 1989
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
John Pendlebury in Crete
A rare memorial volume for the British archaeologist, killed in World War II in Crete
John Pendlebury, appreciations by Nicholas Hammond and T J Dunbabin and a prefatory note by S C Roberts
Printed for private circulation / University Press, Cambridge, 1948
£100.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions
Tight Corners
From the Library of Peveril Camp (18B), Peel—the camp for internees and fascists in the Second World War
Sir Alan Cobham
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1940
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Father's Footsteps
A biography of Damon Runyon by his son. From the library of Canadian actor Al Waxman.
Damon Runyon, Jr.
Random House, New York, 1954
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Nature of a Crime
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's third collaborative novel
Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford
Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1924
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Past All Dishonor
A particularly good copy
James M Cain, dustwrapper design by Harry Roth
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1946
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Jacob the Liar (Signed copy)
With handwritten letter from Jurek Becker to Arnold Wesker
Jurek Becker, translated and with a preface by Melvin Kornfeld. Dustwrapper design by Seymour Chwast.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975
£80.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Iron Laurel
Sidney Keyes' first book of verse
Sidney Keyes
Routledge, London, 1942
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Biglow Papers
First UK edition of James Russell Lowell's satirical Yankee dialect verse
James Russell Lowell, with a preface by Thomas Hughes
Trubner & Co, London, 1859
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Natural History of Selborne
The Folio Society's exquisitely illustrated 2009 edition
Gilbert White, with an introduction by Keith Thomas
The Folio Society, London, 2009
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Sleep While I Sing (Signed copy)
A Canadian crime novel, signed by L R Wright
L R Wright
Viking, New York, 1986
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Ruskin's illustrated principles of architecture
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1890
£10.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover
The Pyramid
William Golding's most light-hearted novel.
William Golding, dustwrapper by Leonard Rosoman
Faber & Faber, London, 1967
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Sort of Life
Graham Greene's autobiography
Graham Greene
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1971
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
She Was the Emperor
A Portrait of the Empress Wu Tse T'ien of the T'ang Dynasty
Keith West
Robert Hale, London, 1951
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Green Man and the Dragon (Signed copy)
The Mystery behind the Myth of St George and the Dragon Power of Nature
Paul Broadhurst
Mythos, Launceston, 2006
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Time to Live (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Jack Lindsay
Jack Lindsay
Arthur Dakers, London, 1946
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Devotions and Two Sermons by John Donne
with the bookplate of Robert Guinness, Stillorgan
John Donne, with Izaak Walton
William Pickering, London, 1840
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Unknown Noel (Signed copy)
New writing from the Noel Coward Archive, signed by Coward's partner Graham Payn
Barry Day, editor. Preface by Graham Payn
Second Opinion, Inc., USA, 2001
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tales of Mourne
Irish stories from Richard Rowley (pseud Richard Valentine Williams)
Richard Rowley, pseud. Richard Valentine Williams
Duckworth & Co, London, 1937
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Hospital
An early novel from the prolific Norah C James
Norah C James
Duckworth & Co, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ilderim; A Tale of Light and Shade
A medieval romance by Marie, Queen of Roumania
Marie Queen of Roumania
Duckworth & Co, London, 1925
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
We Two and Shamus
1913; touring a caravan in the west of Ireland
Mrs Stanley Gardiner
Duckworth & Co, London, 1913
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
