Recent Additions
Dante's Divine Comedy, Vol 1: Inferno
Venice, 1751. La Commedia di Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Giambatista Pasquali, Venezia (Venice), 1751
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Journal of a Route Across India, through Egypt, to England
1819, Fitzclarence's account of the journey, with maps and hand-coloured aquatint plates
Lt.-Col. George August Fitzclarence
John Murray, London, 1819
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, handwritten letter from Brantford, Canada West, in 1866
Writing on promotions and his commanding officers
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley
Not Published, Brantford, Ontario, 1866
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Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, handwritten letter from Thorold, Canada, 1866
Offering an interesting view of military life and promotion prospects
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley
Not Published, Thorold, 1866
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Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, handwritten letter from Montreal, 1866
including the Fenian Raids
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley
Not Published, Montreal, 1866
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Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Newlyn School—six painter's autographs
Lamorna Birch, Stanhope Forbes, Henry Rheam, Baragwanath King, Arthur Tanner & Norman Garstin
Samuel John Lamorna Birch, and Stanhope Forbes, Henry Rheam, Baragwanath King, Arthur Tanner & Norman Garstin
Not Published, Cornwall, n.d.
£80.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Rambler's Recollections & Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer
Alfred Capper
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915
£40.00
Magic | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Julia, Daughter of Claudius
1927, Gertrude Trevelyan's first work and winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry
Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Worzel Gummidge Again
1937, first edition of the second Worzel adventure
Barbara Euphan Todd, illustrated by Elizabeth Alldridge
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1937
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
London After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard
Robert Fabian
The Naldrett Press, London, 1954
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Death at the Chateau (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Moore
Ian Moore
Farrago, London, 2023
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Joseph John Gurney, a handwritten, signed letter to his family from New York, 1838
An important Quaker letter, referencing the schism in Quakerism, and his reforms in America
Joseph John Gurney
Not Published, New York, 1838
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Clara Schumann, signed & handwritten postcard
Undated, but sent on one her London visits
Clara Schumann
Not Published, n.d.
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Henry Scott Tuke, handwritten letter from Swanpool, Falmouth
Henry Scott Tuke
Not Published, Swanpool, Falmouth, 1895
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
England, their England
1935, a fairly early printing of A G Macdonell's satire in the original wrapper
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Second Stage Lensmen
1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Grey Lensman
1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Winged Victory (Signed copy)
Signed by Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas, as well as Battle of Britain ace Dennis David, German air ace Gunther Rall and aviation artist Michael Turner
J E 'Johnnie' Johnson, and P B 'Laddie' Lucas
Stanley Paul, London, 1995
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Stapme, The Biography of Squadron Leader Basil Gerald Stapleton (Signed copy)
Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)
David Ross. Dustwrapper art by Nicolas Trudgian
Grub Street, London, 2002
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rowland Mason Ordish, original documents pertaining to Albert Bridge, 1857–1871
with an original drawing by Max Ende, and a signed copy of Harold Hartley's Eight Eight—Not Out (1939)
Rowland Mason Ordish, and including Max Ende, Harold T Hartley and Charles Wessely
Not Published, London, n.d.
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Handwritten | Association Copy
