Recent Additions
Maria Callas
An early Dutch biography of the Diva
Leo Riemens
Bruna & Zoon A.W., Utrecht, 1960
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Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The House on the Hill
1956, first UK edition, this copy signed to Neville Braybrooke from Derek Stanford and Muriel Spark
Cesare Pavese, translated by W J Strachan. Dustwrapper by Wendy Des Moulins.
Peter Owen, London, 1956
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
David Lance Goines: Posters
1985, a collection of all 114 posters created by Goines
David Lance Goines, introduction by Charles Shere
Alphabet Press, Natick, MA, 1985
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Monet and Architecture
2018, how architecture and buildings feature in Monet's paintings
Richard Thomson
National Gallery, London, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lambeth's Open Spaces
An Historical Account
Marie P G Draper
London Borough of Lambeth, London, 1979
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Mr Clive & Mr Page (Signed copy)
Signed by Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett
Serpent's Tail, London, 1996
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Design for Applied Decoration in the Crafts
1959, John Farleigh's guide to decorating furniture and furnishings
John Farleigh
George Bell & Sons, London, 1959
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Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
L'Aviation Militaire Francaise
1936, a summary of the French air force—seaplanes, flying formations etc
Pierre Barjot, preface by General Vuillemin
J de Gigord, Paris, 1936
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Basilica of S. Clemente in Rome
1914, a nicely bound hardback guide to the Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano
Louis Nolan
Tipografia Italo-Orientale "S. Nilo", Grottaferrata, 1914
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Handling a Low-Powered Steamer in a Revolving Storm
A 1929 prize-winning essay
Captain J S Commander
Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Bounty of the Gods, A Study in Points of View (1910)
and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)
Lady Helen Forbes
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Political Essays
Essays from the Russian politician and writer, Roy A Medvedev
Roy A Medvedev
Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1976
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Echo
Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bodies and Souls
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1922
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fundamental Problems of Marxism
1941, this copy owned and signed by architect & planner, Graeme Shankland
G V Plekhanov, edited by D Ryazanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1941
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Transatlantic Review 9
1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson
J F McCrindle, editor
Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Soft Cover | First Editions
Hogarth Living Poets No 24: New Signatures
including W H Auden, Stephen Spender and Julian Bell
Michael Roberts, editor
The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Studies in Revolution
1950, E H Carr's essays on Proudhon, Herzen, Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin etc
E H Carr
Macmillan, London, 1950
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
A small collection of a 1930s / 1940s amateur magician's paper ephemera
Howard J Rutter, including wartime concerts
Howard J Rutter
Not Published, Various, 1939
£20.00
Magic | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Mother Goose Finger Plays
1915, a charming illustrated guide to finger plays for children
Irene Margaret Cullen
George W Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia, 1915
£16.50
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers
Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014–2016
Christo, and Jeanne-Claude, photographs by Wolfgang Volz, picture commentary by Jonathan Henery and Wolfgang Volz
Taschen, Koln, 2016
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Illustrations of the Principle Natural Orders of the Vegetable Kingdom
1874, a rare first edition with 109 hand-coloured plates by W H Fitch
Professor Daniel Oliver, illustrated by W H Fitch
Chapman & Hall, London, 1874
£300.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions