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Death at the Chateau (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Moore
Ian Moore
Farrago, London, 2023
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Joseph John Gurney, a handwritten, signed letter to his family from New York, 1838
An important Quaker letter, referencing the schism in Quakerism, and his reforms in America
Joseph John Gurney
Not Published, New York, 1838
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Clara Schumann, signed & handwritten postcard
Undated, but sent on one her London visits
Clara Schumann
Not Published, n.d.
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Second Stage Lensmen
1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953
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Grey Lensman
1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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
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
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
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
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
