Recent Additions
Greek Nature Stories
1929, the natural world told through Greek mythology and ancient history
E Iliff Robson, illustrated by E M Ball
Jonathan Cape, London, 1929
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chroniques et Legendes des Rues de Paris
1864, the first French edition
Eduoard Fournier
E Dentu, Paris, 1864
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire for 1907
Complete with large fold-out map
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1907
£40.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Cosmic Loom, The New Science of Astrology (Signed copy)
Signed by Dennis Elwell
Dennis Elwell
Unwin Hyman, London, 1987
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Post Office London Directory for 1903
Rebound in two volumes, including trades, streets, businesses and residents
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1903
£120.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Three Female Myths of the 20th Century
Garbo, Callas, and Navratilova
Iris Bunsch
Vantage Press, New York, 1991
£30.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Osprey Encylcopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995
A comprehensive illustrated guide
Bill Gunston
Osprey, London, 1996
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Management of Grass Land
1881, with the bookplate of Blackburn confectioner James Boyle
Arthur Roland, edited by William H Ablett
Chapman & Hall, London, 1881
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Horse Drawn Sleighs
A fully illustrated guide to sleighs form the late 19th and early 20th century
Susan Green
Astragal Press, Mendham, NJ, 1995
£15.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
Japanese edition, from the library of Professor Morton N Cohen
Lewis Carroll, edited with notes by Norio Nogami
Seibido, Tokyo, 1992
£20.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Lewis Carroll's Travels to Russia (Signed copy)
2007, Japanese edition, signed by the translator to Professor Morton N Cohen
Lewis Carroll, translated into Japanese by Katsuko Kasai
Kaibunsha Publishing, Tokyo, 2007
£30.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dialectics of Nature
1940, with a preface and notes by J B S Haldane
Frederick Engels, translated and edited by Clemens Dutt, preface and notes by J B S Haldane
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1940
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Diving for Pearls (Signed copy)
Signed by Howard Brenton, his first novel
Howard Brenton
Nick Hern Books, London, 1989
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Performance of Early Organ Music
A introduction by Andrew Benson-Wilson
Andrew Benson-Wilson
Printed for the Author, Basingstoke, 1992
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Story of Amaryllis
1908, Viola Taylor's first book of poetry
Viola Taylor
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1908
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Battle for Crete (Signed copy)
Signed by John Hall Spencer
John Hall Spencer
White Lion Publishers, London, 1976
£10.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
The True Crime of Christmas
1897, an early crime novel set in Paris
P Hay Hunter
Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1897
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Press Gang (Signed copy)
Signed by Roy Greenslade—how newspapers make profits from propaganda
Roy Greenslade
Macmillan, London, 2003
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Musik-Lexikon
1900, the fifth edition of the German musicologist Hugo Riemann's great work
Hugo Riemann
Max Hesse, Leipzig, 1900
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover
Joseph and His Brothers
1956, Thomas Mann's four novel Biblical sequence
Thomas Mann, translated by H T Lowe-Porter, with an introduction by the author
Secker & Warburg, London, 1956
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Wishing Tree (Signed copy)
Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion, signed by Swami Ritajananda
Christopher Isherwood, edited by Robert Adjemian, introduction by Gavin Lambert
Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1987
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire
A critical study of British Imperial fiction
Wendy Katz
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tim in Danger
1955, 2nd imp, Edward Ardizzone's story and delightful illustrations
Edward Ardizzone
Oxford University Press, London, 1955
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
And Then You Wish (Signed copy)
Signed by John Van Druten to Vivian de Sola Pinto
John Van Druten
Little, Brown & Company, London, 1937
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold
Marc Chagall, edited by Benjamin Harshav
Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2003
£12.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
