Recent Additions
Toys, Play and Disicpline in Childhood
Beatrix Tudor Hart's 1955 classic book on development through play
Beatrix Tudor Hart
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1955
£40.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
1891, a decent Victorian pocket edition of a Gothic masterpiece
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1891
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Fiction | Hard Cover
A Seventh Man
The Story of a Migrant Worker in Europe (1975)
John Berger, and Jean Mohr
Penguin Books, London, 1975
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Five Vera Stanley Alder paperbacks
Wisdom in Practice, The Initiation of the World, When Humanity Comes of Age, The Secret of the Atomic Age, and The Fifth Dimension
Vera Stanley Alder
Rider & Company, London, 1970
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover
Living Between Two Worlds
1974, first US edition of Joel S Goldsmith's spiritual life guide
Joel S Goldsmith, edited by Lorraine Sinkler
Harper & Row, New York, 1974
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The 'Heaven' and 'Hell' of William Blake
A study of William Blake as social critic
G R Sabri-Tabrizi
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vincent Van Gogh Drawings: Arles, Saint-Remy & Auvers-Sur-Oise 1888–1890
Volume 4 of the complete catalogue from the Van Gogh Museum's collections
Marije Vellekoop, and Roelie Zwikker, with the assistance of Monique Hageman, translated by Diane Webb
Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2007
£150.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
JOHN LENNON 'IMAGINE' folded book art
A remarkable and unique piece by Sarah Leighton of Landau House
Albert Goldman, with book folding art by Sarah Leighton
Bantam Press, London, 1988
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Ephemera | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Building the Revolution
Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935
Jean-Louis Cohen, and Maria Tsantsanoglou, Maria Ametova et al
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2011
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Oxford Book of Australian Letters
1998, from Charles Darwin and D H Lawrence, to Percy Grainger and Olaf Stapledon
Brenda Niall, and John Thompson (editors), with Pamela Williams
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Unknown Bown 1947–1967
Photography by Jane Bown, The Observer's photographer
Germaine Greer, introduction
The Observer, London, 2007
£20.00
Photography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Back to Black
Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary—the book to accompany the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition of 2005
Richard J Powell. David A Bailey, and Petrine Archer-Straw
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2005
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Brewing Room Diary & Year Book 1948
Packed with useful information to brewers and an unused diary
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd, London, 1948
£40.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
The History of Dover Harbour (Signed copy)
Signed by Alec Hasenson
Alec Hasenson
Aurum Special Editions, London, 1980
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Slipcase
L'Architecture Romane (Signed copy)
Signed from the library of Adrian Fortescue, Roman Catholic priest and polymath
Edouard Corroyer
Societe Francaise D'Edition Art, Paris, 1900
£60.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Story of the British Navy (Signed copy)
Signed by Almeric Paget to Richard Hennessy
E Keble Chatterton
Mills & Boon, London, 1911
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Wrongful Deaths (Signed copy)
Signed by William Wharton
William Wharton
Granta, London, 1994
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1823, published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Edmund Burke
Thomas McLean, London, 1823
£50.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover
Contes Populaires Berberes, Recuillis, Traduits et Annotes
The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers
Rene Basset
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Three books of French poetry by Francis Jammes
La Vierge et les Sonnets, De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir, and Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent...
Francis Jammes
Various, Paris, 1919
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Collins' Derbyshire and its Railways
A folding hand-coloured map from the 1850s/1860s
Not stated
H G Collins, London, 1860
£25.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
Three books by Francis Jammes
Le Rosaire au Soleil, Le Roman du Lievre, and Janot-Poete
Francis Jammes
Mercure de France, Paris, 1926
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Two books by Pierre Loti
Pecheur D'Islande and Ramuntcho
Pierre Loti
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover