Recent Additions

owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952

1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide

Focal Press, London, 1972

1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith

Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953

1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith

Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951

Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)

Grub Street, London, 2002

Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)

East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972

Compiled for the Government of Nigeria. With Some Notes on the Hausa People and their Language by Professor D Westermann

Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1951

1968, owned and rebound by British artist David Heathcote

University of London Press, London, 1968

1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army

The Land Girl, London, 1945

A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970

Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century

Ithaca Press, London, 1983

1967, a first edition of A L Loyd's seminal study

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1967

This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.

Cassell, London, 1937

A superb cover on this guide to car electrics, c1935, by Joseph Lucas Ltd

Joseph Lucas Ltd, Birmingham, 1935

Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967

Sexton Press, London, 1996

Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu

Poetry London, London, 1941

All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster

Cecil Woolf, London, 1985

Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem

Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999

1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel

The Chiswick Press, London, 1915

Signed by Christopher Arnander

Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013

1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War

Coward-McCann, New York, 1928

A Tribute to the Honourable Edward Wyndham Tennant, Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1897–1916

Anne Powell, Salisbury, 1990

Edited by Nancy Cunard and signed by Joyce Rowe, one of the contributors.

La France Libre, London, 1944

1997, limited edition, no 9 of 300, signed by Edward Thomas' daughter Myfanwy Thomas

Imperial War Museum, London, 1997

This copy signed by Gweno Lewis, widow of Alun Lewis

Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1981