Recent Additions
On Freedom
1911, politician and poet Godfrey Locker Lampson's study of freedom
Godfrey Locker Lampson
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
Men of Gallipoli (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Liddle to Thomas Spurgeon who served on the Ark Royal in the Gallipoli campaign
Peter Liddle
Allen Lane, London, 1976
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Cinema Dadiste et Surrealiste
with the bookplate of English Surrealist and bibliophile John Lyle
Alain Sayag, and Claire Blanchon
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1978
£15.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Black Book
Lawrence Durrell's third novel, the 2nd edition of 1959, Olympia Press
Lawrence Durrell
The Olympia Press, Paris, 1959
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Dustwrapper
Something And Nothing—Tales From The Wedding Present: Vol Two
Signed by David Lewis Gedge, Terry de Castro and Lee Thacker
David Lewis Gedge, with Terry de Castro and Jessica McMillan, adapted and illustrated by Lee Thacker, additional editing by Karl Kathuria
Scopitones, Brighton, 2022
£40.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Second World War
Winston Churchill's immense history complete in six volumes, 1948–1954
Winston S Churchill
Cassell, London, 1948
On Hold
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Wombles at Work
1973, the first edition
Elisabeth Beresford, illustrated by Margaret Gordon
Ernest Benn, London, 1973
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Jazz, An Introduction to its Musical Basis (Signed copy)
Signed by Avril Dankworth
Avril Dankworth
Oxford University Press, London, 1975
£15.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Touring in 1600
A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education
E S Bates
Constable, London, 1911
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Empire of Min
1954, first edition, Edward Shafer's study of Chinese history AD907–960
Edward H Schafer
Charles E Tuttle, Rutland, VT, 1954
£32.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
1961, first edition, a complete translation of the cycle of 32 plays
Martial Rose, editor
Evans Brothers, London, 1961
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Sam Pig Storybook
1965, first edition, with 35 Sam Pig stories
Alison Uttley, illustrated by Cecil Leslie
Faber & Faber, London, 1965
£18.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
No Snow in Latching
1949, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pigeon Hoo
A novel of a young couple moving to a farmhouse in Tenterden in the years after the Great War
Franklin Lushington, dustwrapper by R Hartman
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House
A sumptuous history of the Derbyshire house
John-Paul Stonard, foreword by The Duke of Devonshire & The Duchess of Devonshire photography by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Art Direction by Huw Morgan
Particular Books, London, 2021
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
One by One
1965, Penelope Gilliatt's first novel
Penelope Gilliatt
Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pillion Riders
A first printing of Elisabeth Russell Taylor's novel of the conflicting demands of passion and morality
Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Peter Owen, London, 1993
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wizard from Vienna
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism
Vincent Buranelli
Peter Owen, London, 1976
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Unfree in Palestine (Signed copy)
Signed by Adah Kay, 'Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction'
Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Adah Kay
Pluto Press, London, 2013
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Journal of a London Playgoer
1974 edition of Morley's account of theatre trips 1851–1866
Henry Morley, with an introduction by Michael R Booth
Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1974
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Gardening for Pleasure
A 1903 guide to gardening from American horticulturalist Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson
Orange Judd Company, New York, 1903
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Sophie Ryder (Signed copy)
A study of the sculptor's work, signed by Sophie Ryder
Jonathan Benington
Lund Humphries, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound