Recent Additions
RAILWAYANA original 1870s handwritten letter concerning George Stephenson
Disputing Stephenson's claim to have invented the Locomotive
William Beattie, and engine designer, to Rochdale Pioneer George Healey
Not Published, 1870
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Transport | Soft Cover | Handwritten
The History of Romney Marsh from its Earliest Formation to 1837
1849, a rare first edition of the first history of the Marsh
William Holloway
John Russell Smith, London, 1849
£100.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
David Leach, A Potter's Life with Workshop Notes (Signed copy)
Signed and dated by David Leach
David Leach, edited by Robert Fournier
Fournier Pottery, Lacock, 1977
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Crafts | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Dorothy Wilding, 1928 photograph of Prince George, Duke of Kent
Signed by both Dorothy Wilding and Prince George
Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding, London, 1928
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Oxfordshire Annals, 1869 (Signed copy)
Signed by John Marriott Davenport to Horatio Nelson Goddard, JP
John Marriott Davenport
E W Morris, Oxford, 1869
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco (with signed letter)
With a handwritten letter from R B Cunningham Graham pasted in
R B Cunningham Graham
Duckworth & Co, London, 1928
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Manuscript: The Psalms of David in Spanish, c1725
Handwritten copy of all 150 Psalms by Christopher Russell, 17th Foot, Minorca
Lt.-Col. Christopher Russell
Not Published, Minorca, 1725
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Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Handwritten
Silversmithing
1983, Finegold and Seitz's classic book
Rupert Finegold, and William Seitz
Krause Publications, Iowa, 1983
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Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions
Original 1877 Rate Book for Bishop's Hull, Somerset
With handwritten entries of all residents
Not stated
Knight & Co, London, 1877
£100.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | Handwritten
The Dark Island
1934, a Hogarth Press first edition of Vita Sackville-West's novel
Vita Sackville-West, with map drawn by Ben Nicolson
The Hogarth Press, London, 1934
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Lady Killer
1957, first edition of this murder thriller
William M Hardy
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology
1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Crusader's Christmas
c1890, covers cut in the shape of the crusader's armour, and with super lithographs
Broadbrim, illustrations by Frank Feller
The Art Lithographic Publishing Co, Munich & New York, 1890
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Police Handbook: Home Office Aliens Department, Aliens Order 1953
The 1959 edition with circular from the Home Office
Home Office
Home Office, London, 1959
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Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover
Photograph album of Russian tanks made in Smethwick, September 1941
Valentine Mk2 tanks being unveiled in front of the Russian ambassador, Ivan Maisky, and Harold Macmillan
Not stated
Not stated, Smethwick, 1941
£200.00
Military & War | Hard Cover
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New
1722, an important King James Bible printed by James Watson, Edinburgh
James Watson (Printer), with engraved title within architectural border by Robert Wood
James Watson, Edinburgh, 1722
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Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Long Whip
The Story of a Great Husky (in Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition)
Jane Brevoort Walden, and Stuart D L Paine
Chapman & Hall, London, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Yitzhaq II ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia
Postcard signed by the 121st high Priest of the Samaritans
Not stated
Not stated, n.d.
£40.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997
A series of essays
Carol Margaret Davison, editor
Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1997
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Sun Queen & People of the Twilight
Two weird fiction first editions from H Kaner
Hyman Kaner, dustwrapper design by H W Perl
The Kaner Publishing Company, Llandudno, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay
J Sheridan Le Fanu's ghost story, including Madam Crowl's Ghost
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, introduction by Herbert Van Thal, frontispiece and wrapper by Felix Kelly
Home and Van Thal Ltd, London, 1947
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Marriage of Anne
1927, a Jazz Age romance from Concordia Merrel
Concordia Merrel, dustwrapper design by John Drew
George H Doran, New York, 1927
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
