Recent Additions
Candle in the Dark, A Postscript to Despair
This copy signed by British author Rumer Godden
Irwin Edman
The Viking Press, New York, 1939
£12.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A History of the Game of Bowls
1933, rules, regulations, records etc...
E J Linney, with an introduction by Silas Hocking
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1933
£15.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
War Diaries
Jean-Paul Sartre's Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939–1940
Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Quintin Hoare
Verso, London, 1984
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fall of Valor
Charles Jackson's 1946 novel, first major American novel to deal with the theme of homosexuality
Charles Jackson
Rinehart & Co, New York, 1946
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Is It Peace?
David Lloyd George's thoughts and theories on the Treaty of Versailles, and the years after the Great War
David Lloyd George
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1923
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Land of the Children
1928, a novel of the Russian Revolution
S Gussiev Orenburgsky, translated from the Russian by Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pilate's Wife
French author Jean Damase's first novel
Jean Damase, translated from the French by Arthur Mayne
Duckworth & Co, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Warrior's Path
A Native American kidnap novel from American author Don Ryan
Don Ryan
Duckworth & Co, London, 1937
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Fairey Aircraft since 1915 (Signed copy)
Signed by H A Taylor
H A Taylor
Putnam, London, 1974
£15.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Logic as a Positive Science
Della Volpe's efforts to establish a scientific logic free of any aprioristic speculation
Galvano Della Volpe
NLB, London, 1980
£12.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Le Monde Fou Préferé au Monde Sage
1733, an early French language edition of Marie Hubin's The World Unmask'd
Marie Huber, though published anonymously
Wetsteins & Smith, Amsterdam, 1733
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Women of Molise, An Italian Village, 1950
The photographer's images and recollections
Frank Monaco
Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2001
£30.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Oxford Poetry 1925
including early work by Graham Greene, C Day Lewis and Harold Acton
Patrick Monkhouse, and Charles Plumb (editors)
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
£32.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare
In a decorative painted calf binding, 6 vols including the Tragedies, Comedies, Biography and Doubtful Plays
William Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1842
£150.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Studies in Shakespeare
1849, a first edition of Charles Knight's critical notices
Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1849
£80.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Maria Callas
An early Dutch biography of the Diva
Leo Riemens
Bruna & Zoon A.W., Utrecht, 1960
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Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The House on the Hill
1956, first UK edition, this copy signed to Neville Braybrooke from Derek Stanford and Muriel Spark
Cesare Pavese, translated by W J Strachan. Dustwrapper by Wendy Des Moulins.
Peter Owen, London, 1956
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Soutine's Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
The book to accompany the Courtauld's exhibtion of Chaim Soutine's portraits
Merlin James, with Karen Serres, and Barnaby Wright
Courtauld Gallery, London, 2017
£17.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Lance Goines: Posters
1985, a collection of all 114 posters created by Goines
David Lance Goines, introduction by Charles Shere
Alphabet Press, Natick, MA, 1985
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Monet and Architecture
2018, how architecture and buildings feature in Monet's paintings
Richard Thomson
National Gallery, London, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lambeth's Open Spaces
An Historical Account
Marie P G Draper
London Borough of Lambeth, London, 1979
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Mr Clive & Mr Page (Signed copy)
Signed by Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett
Serpent's Tail, London, 1996
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Design for Applied Decoration in the Crafts
1959, John Farleigh's guide to decorating furniture and furnishings
John Farleigh
George Bell & Sons, London, 1959
£12.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
L'Aviation Militaire Francaise
1936, a summary of the French air force—seaplanes, flying formations etc
Pierre Barjot, preface by General Vuillemin
J de Gigord, Paris, 1936
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
