Recent Additions
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
Aeschylus and Athens
George Thomson's study of Athenian drama and democracy
George Thomson
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
A Mirror to My Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Perle Hessing
Perle Hessing
Henry Holt, New York, 1988
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chagall du Coq a l'Ane
A superbly illustrated French exhibition catalogue from 2018
Jean-Jacques Faucher, and Jean-Louis Prat
La Doyenne, Brioude, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Nineteenth-Century Lives, Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley (Signed copy)
From the library of Morton N Cohen (contributor), with a handwritten letter to him from Jerome Buckley
Laurence S Lockridge, with John Maynard, & Donald D Stone (editors), bibliography compiled by David M Staines
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Where Did It All Go Right? (Signed copy)
Signed by Al Alvarez, an uncorrected proof copy
A. Alvarez
Richard Cohen Books / Metro, London, 1999
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Uncorrected proof
Irish Folk Music and Song
A brief study by Donal O'Sullivan
Donal O'Sullivan, illustrated by Muriel Brandt
Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin, 1956
£10.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
Art and Illusion
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
E H Gombrich
Phaidon, London, 1962
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
