Recent Additions
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
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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
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
Madame Yevonde signed society wedding bride photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Madame Yevonde signed society wedding photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine
A rare 1809 2nd edition of John Lawrence's study of farm animals
John Lawrence
Sherwood, Neely & Jones et al, London, 1809
£120.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover
Madame Yevonde signed society portrait photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Second World War naval portrait by Lafayette
Commander Julian Liddell
Lafayette
Lafayette, London, 1940
£20.00
Photography | Soft Cover
Madame Yevonde signed society portrait photograph
c1928, signed in pencil by Yevonde Middleton
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1928
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Function of Literature
A Study of Christoper Caudwell's Aesthetics
David N Margolies
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1969
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The West Indian Experience in British Schools
Multi-Racial Education and Social Disadvantage in London
Raymond Giles
Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1977
£15.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park
1855, illustrated and with maps, Great Exhibition interest
Samuel Phillips, illustrated by P H Delamotte
The Crystal Palace Library, London, 1855
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Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover
A War-torn Chester Parish
St Werburgh's before, during and after the Great War
Ann Marie Curtis, et al
Scotforth Books, 2017
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Dream Children, A Reverie, and The Child Angel, A Dream
1902, two essays from Charles Lamb in an attractive leather binding
Charles Lamb
De La More Press, London, 1902
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Art in the Light of Conscience (Signed copy)
Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated & edited by Angela Livingstone
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The History of Romney Marsh from its Earliest Formation to 1837
1849, a rare first edition of the first history of the Marsh
William Holloway
John Russell Smith, London, 1849
£100.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
