Recent Additions
Stapme, The Biography of Squadron Leader Basil Gerald Stapleton (Signed copy)
Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)
David Ross. Dustwrapper art by Nicolas Trudgian
Grub Street, London, 2002
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reproduction in Antelopes
Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)
F I B Kayanja
East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dictionary of the Hausa Language
1968, owned and rebound by British artist David Heathcote
R C Abraham
University of London Press, London, 1968
£20.00
Language | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Poems of The Land Army
1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army
Vita Sackville-West, (foreword)
The Land Girl, London, 1945
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Tale of Li Wa
Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century
Glen Dudbridge
Ithaca Press, London, 1983
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vain Glory (Signed copy)
This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.
Guy Chapman, editor
Cassell, London, 1937
£35.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Electricalities
A superb cover on this guide to car electrics, c1935, by Joseph Lucas Ltd
Joseph Lucas Ltd
Joseph Lucas Ltd, Birmingham, 1935
£30.00
Transport | Soft Cover
More Than a Brother (Signed copy)
Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967
Carol Z Rothkopf, and Barry Webb
Sexton Press, London, 1996
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
A Dream Observed and Other Poems (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu
Anne Ridler
Poetry London, London, 1941
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Poems, Letters, Life (4 vols)
All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, and Hilda D Spear
Cecil Woolf, London, 1985
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Story of Joan of Arc
1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel
Pamela Glenconner
The Chiswick Press, London, 1915
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Arnander
Christopher Arnander, editor
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Squad
1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War
James B Wharton
Coward-McCann, New York, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bim
A Tribute to the Honourable Edward Wyndham Tennant, Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1897–1916
Anne Powell
Anne Powell, Salisbury, 1990
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems for France (Signed copy)
Edited by Nancy Cunard and signed by Joyce Rowe, one of the contributors.
Nancy Cunard
La France Libre, London, 1944
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Poems by Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway") (Signed copy)
1997, limited edition, no 9 of 300, signed by Edward Thomas' daughter Myfanwy Thomas
Edward Thomas, with an introduction by Myfanwy Thomas, and a preface by Alan A Martin.
Imperial War Museum, London, 1997
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Holocaust, The Jewish Tragedy (Signed copy)
With a handwritten postcard from Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert
HarperCollins, London, 1987
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Poetry London Volume 2, Number 9 (1943)
with three superb original lithographs by Graham Sutherland
Tambimuttu, editor
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Out of Battle, The Poetry of the Great War (Signed copy)
Signed by Jon Silkin to Myfanwy Thomas, Edward Thomas's youngest daughter
Jon Silkin
Ark, London, 1987
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
Charles Ancliffe (composer) signed musical annotation
With four handwritten bars of Nights of Gladness, dated 1920
Charles Ancliffe
Not Published, 1920
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Frederick Rosse (composer) signed musical notation
Dated 1909, referencing Maxine Elliott's The Conquest
Frederick Rosse
Not Published, London, 1909
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
The Old Contemptibles, Mons to Ypres 1914 (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Brice
Beatrix Brice
Old Contemptibles Association, London, 1939
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The four Sammy books
Ron & Atie van der Meer's My Brother Sammy, Sammy and Mara, Naughty Sammy, and Sammy and the Cat Party
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions