Recent Additions
Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Story of the British Navy (Signed copy)
Signed by Almeric Paget to Richard Hennessy
E Keble Chatterton
Mills & Boon, London, 1911
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Wrongful Deaths (Signed copy)
Signed by William Wharton
William Wharton
Granta, London, 1994
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Art and Social Life
Russian revolutionary G V Plekhanov's writings on art and society
G V Plekhanov, edited by Andrew Rothstein
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1953
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1823, published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Edmund Burke
Thomas McLean, London, 1823
£50.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover
Contes Populaires Berberes, Recuillis, Traduits et Annotes
The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers
Rene Basset
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Three books of French poetry by Francis Jammes
La Vierge et les Sonnets, De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir, and Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent...
Francis Jammes
Various, Paris, 1919
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Six books by / about Andre Gide
including Charles du Bos' Le Dialogue avec Andre Gide
Andre Gide, and Charles du Bos
Various, Paris, 1929
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Collins' Derbyshire and its Railways
A folding hand-coloured map from the 1850s/1860s
Not stated
H G Collins, London, 1860
£25.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
Three books by Francis Jammes
Le Rosaire au Soleil, Le Roman du Lievre, and Janot-Poete
Francis Jammes
Mercure de France, Paris, 1926
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Two books by Pierre Loti
Pecheur D'Islande and Ramuntcho
Pierre Loti
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Beatitudes
1984, limited edition bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, signed by publisher, and this copy from the library of John Klyberg, Bishop of Fulham etc
St Matthew, designed and published by Edward Burrett
Penmiel Press, Esher, Surrey, 1984
£50.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Association Copy | Slipcase
Ten titles by Andre Maurois
Uniformly bound in red / brown cloth, all early French language editions
Andre Maurois
Various, Paris, 1922
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover
The Crafty Farmer, A Spanish Folk Tale (Signed copy)
Signed by the illustrator, Gregorio Prieto
Gregorio Prieto, illustrator. Translated and introduced by Henry Thomas
The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938
£100.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Presence of the Past
Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life—from the library of Sinhalese scholar C H B Reynolds
Steven Kemper
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, 1991
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Hills and the Vales
Eighteen essays from Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies, introduction by Edward Thomas
Duckworth & Co, London, 1911
£15.00
Essays | Hard Cover
Talks on Soviet Democracy
with "concrete examples of genuine democracy in the USSR"
M A Krutogolov, translated by Barry Jones
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1980
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Noncapitalist Way
Soviet Experience and the Liberated Countries
Igor Andreyev, translated by Galina Sbodnikova
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Grounds for Divorce in Hindu and English Law (Signed copy)
Inscribed by the author for E P Skone-James
P K Virdi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1972
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Flower Foes
1923, a book of garden pests from the editor of Amateur Gardening
T W Sanders, illustrated in colour by Miss Kate Ashley
W H & L Collingridge, London, 1923
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
My Book of Ships
1928, rebound in half-leather
Cecil J Allen, and John R Hind
John F Shaw, London, 1928
£15.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Little Black Hen, An Irish Fairy Story
1940, illustrated by Trefor Jones
Eileen O'Faolain, illustrated by Trefor Jones
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
£12.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Cosmic Rhythm of Art and Literature
1948, a series of essays on French and English art and culture
Mary P Harris
Frank Cork, Adelaide, 1948
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Archaeology Of The Early Anglo Saxon Kingdoms
An unparalleled view of the archaeological remains of the period
C J Arnold
Routledge, London, 1997
£10.00
History | Hard Cover
