Recent Additions
Our Secret Economy
Graeme Shankland's booklet on the "Response of the Informal Economy to the Rise of Mass Unemployment"
Graeme Shankland
Anglo-German Foundation, London, 1980
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
Technology and the Academics
An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution
Eric Ashby
Macmillan, London, 1966
£20.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
First edition, with over 60 essays on all aspects of jazz
Bill Kirchner, editor
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Family in Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland, The Paris of Killashandra (Signed copy)
Signed by Kevin O'Neill
Kevin O'Neill
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1984
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sacred Hunger (Signed copy)
Third printing of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize winning novel
Barry Unsworth
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1992
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Penny Dreadfuls and other Victorian Horrors
An illustrated history
Michael Anglo
Jupiter Books, London, 1977
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History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Seven Champions of Christendom
St George of England, St Denis of France, St James of Spain, St Anthony of Italy, St Andrew of Scotland, St Patrick of Ireland, and St David of Wales.
Richard Johnson
J Walker et al, London, 1808
£30.00
History | Hard Cover
History of the Comic Strip Volume 1: The Early Comic Strip (Signed copy)
Signed by David Kunzle. Narrative Strips and Picture Stories in the European Broadsheet from c1450 to 1825
David Kunzle
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973
£120.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Padre
Australian Chaplains in Gallipoli and France
Michael McKernan
Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Case of Thomas Walker (Signed copy)
Signed by the author, Frida Knight, Communist and activist
Frida Knight, foreword by G D H Cole
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1957
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro (Signed copy)
Signed by Alison Fell
Alison Fell, (editor), translated by Arye Blower, with an introduction by Sir Geoffrey Montague-Pollock
Serpent's Tail, London, 1994
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Vietnam, An Epic Tragedy 1945–1957 (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Max Hastings
Max Hastings
Collins, London, 2018
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Echoes from the Sky (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Scarth, the story of acoustic defence on the Kent coast
Richard N Scarth
Hythe Civic Society, Hythe, 1999
£25.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Sakura Photobook
Takeuchi Toshinobu's photographs of Japanese cherry blossom
Takeuchi Toshinobu
Shuppan Geijutsusha, Tokyo, 1999
£30.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Our Little Sunbeams
1896, with the bookplate of the illustrator, Kenneth M Skeaping
Alice F Jackson, illustrated by Kenneth M Skeaping
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1896
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
Balfour's Romanes Lecture of 1909
Arthur James Balfour
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909
£20.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
Practical Animal Husbandry (Signed copy)
Signed by one of the authors, E D S Robertson
William C Miller, and E D S Robertson
Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1934
£12.00
Animals & Pets | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
I'll Fly No More, An Airwoman's Diary (Signed copy)
Signed by Ursula Barnett Potter
Ursula Barnett Potter
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Following On
The Bedser's cricketing biography signed by Welsh footballers and boxers: Jack Matthews, George Edwards, Alf Sherwood, Jack Petersen, and Dai Dower
Alec and Eric Bedser
Evans Brothers, London, 1954
£30.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Canti di Soldati
Piero Jahier's collection of Italian Great War songs
Piero Jahier, harmonised by Vittorio Gui
Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milano, 1923
£30.00
Music | Soft Cover
Military History of Late Rome 395–425
The third book in this ambitious series
Ilkka Syvanne
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2020
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Small Island
The first printing of the first edition, 2014
Andrea Levy
Review, London, 2014
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Greyhound for Breakfast (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by James Kelman
James Kelman
Secker & Warburg, London, 1987
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Africa; The Roots of Revolt (Signed copy)
Signed Jack Woddis in 1960
Jack Woddis
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1960
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Strange Tales from "Vanity Fair"
c1875, by Silly Billy, 28 short sketches, and with ownership signature of Horace Pym
Silly Billy, pseud Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray
"Vanity Fair" Office, London, 1875
On Hold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions