Recent Additions
The Army List for June 1851
A record of ranks, promotions, deaths, army, marines, ordnance etc etc
War Office
Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, London, 1851
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover
Unrecounted
Sebald and Tripp's poems and etchings
W G Sebald, and Jan Peter Tripp, translated by Michael Hamburger
Hamish Hamilton, London, 2004
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adventure in Algeria (Signed copy)
Signed by Brian Stuart, an account of his time in the French Foreign Legion and trek across the Sahara
Brian Stuart
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£70.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Cockney Past and Present
A Short History of the London Dialect (1938)
William Matthews
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1938
£15.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Pocket leather edition, illustrated by Herbert Cole
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Herbert Cole
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1907
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Healing Waters of Israel
or, The Story of Naaman the Syrian. 1873, first edition.
John Ross Macduff
James Nisbet & Co, London, 1873
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
New Daughters of Africa (Signed copy)
Signed by Margaret Busby (editor) and Patience Agbabi (poet, contributor)
Margaret Busby, editor
Myriad, Oxford, 2019
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Norman Douglas
Richard MacGillivary's biography, limited edition published by Giuseppe Orioli
Richard MacGillivray, pseud. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
G Orioli, Florence, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Discover London in 2 Days Leisurely
1969, with pen and ink drawings by Andrew Dodds
Charles Loewenthal, (text), black & white maps by Michael Hoad, drawings by Andrew Dodds
Loewenthal / Carney, London, 1969
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First Editions
Our Lady of the Pillar
Eca de Queiroz's novel with fantastical elements
Eca de Queiroz, done into English by Edgar Prestage
Constable, London, 1906
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Duenna
Signed by Nigel Playfair, this edition issued for his production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with an introduction by Nigel Playfair, and illustrations by George Sheringham
Constable, London, 1925
£40.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Borderland, A Country Diary (Signed copy)
Signed by Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe, illustrated by Mary Newcomb
Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2007
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Natural History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
Undesirable Alien
Regis Debray's novel of revolutionaries
Regis Debray, translated by Rosemary Sheed
Allen Lane, London, 1978
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Riallaro, The Archipelago of Exiles
1901, a rare first edition of a lost race satirical novel
Godfrey Sweven, (pseud. John MacMillan Brown)
G P Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Edgar Allan Poe Bedside Book
Tales written by, read by, and influenced by Edgar Allan Poe
Peter Haining, editor
Victor Gollancz, London, 1980
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics and Their Fans
A history of the trailblazing comics that broke colour barriers
Jeffrey A Brown
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2001
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Ant Colony (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Francis King
Francis King
Constable, London, 1991
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (Signed copy)
Signed by Francis King
Francis King
Constable, London, 1996
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Down the River (Signed copy)
Signed by H E Bates, the first edition of 1937
H E Bates, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
Victor Gollancz, London, 1937
£60.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
One Day (Signed copy)
This copy inscribed by Nancy Cunard to Raymond Mortimer, the fifth book published by The Hours Press
Norman Douglas
The Hours Press, Chapelle-Reanville, 1929
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Association Copy
The Psychology of Socialism
1928, the first UK edition of this classic study
Henry De Man, translated from the second German edition by Eden & Cedar Paul
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1928
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Concerning Marxism in Linguistics
Stalin's 1950 article for Pravda
J V Stalin
Soviet News, London, 1950
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
Trances
1966, a study of trance rites and shamanistic skills
Stewart Wavell, with Audrey Butt and Nina Epton
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1966
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Blackwell's 1958 edition of Engels' first book
Frederick Engels, translated and edited by W O Henderson and W H Chaloner
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1958
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First thus
La Bonne Table
1964, Ludwig Bemelmans' gastronomic memoirs
Ludwig Bemelmans, selected and edited by Donald and Eleanor Friede
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964
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Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
