Recent Additions
That Astonishing Infantry
The History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689–2006
Michael Glover, and Jonathon Riley
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2008
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Sowdone of Bablyone and of Ferumbras his Sone who Conquerede Rome
Volume V of The English Charlemagne Romances
Emil Hausknecht, editor
The Early English Text Society / OUP, London, 1969
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
My Road to Opera (Signed copy)
Signed by Boris Goldovsky
Boris Goldovsky, with Curtis Cate
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1979
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Parents Revolt
A Study of the Declining Birth-Rate in Acquisitive Societies
Richard Titmuss, and Kathleen Titmuss, preface by Beatrice Webb
Secker & Warburg, London, 1942
£10.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rivers and Canals
Two volumes, 1896, 2nd edition. The design, management and construction of rivers and canals.
Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1896
£80.00
Transport | Hard Cover
American Notes & Pictures from Italy (Signed copy)
Signed by the editor, Leonee Ormond
Charles Dickens, edited by Leonee Ormond
J M Dent, London, 1997
£10.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
Romola (Signed copy)
Signed by the editor, Leonee Ormond
George Eliot, edited by Leonee Ormond
J M Dent, London, 1999
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
An Act Relating to the Relief of the Poor (Scotland) 1845
Rebound in plain blue cloth
Not stated
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848
£15.00
History | Hard Cover
Observations on Various Passages of Scripture
Clarke's Harmer, 1808, volume 3 only, on honouring the dead, Judea and Egypt
Adam Clarke, from the writings of The Rev Thomas Harmer
J Johnson, London, 1808
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Gertrude of Wyoming and other poems (Signed copy)
This copy belonged to Victorian artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, with his signature to the title page
Thomas Campbell
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1819
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Leather Bound | Association Copy
On the Cure of Piles, Fistula, Hoemorrhoidal Excrescences, Tumours and Strictures
1844, S J Van Butchell's treatments and cases
S J Van Butchell
H Renshaw, London, 1844
£40.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover
A Scots Anthology (Signed copy)
Signed by Eric Linklater and Allan C Fraser, poems in the Scottish dialect
John W Oliver, and J C Smith (editors), title page design by Joan Hassall.
Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1949
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Reminiscences of Jock Thirlestane
Yokel and Detective at Musselburgh Races in Days Gone Bye (c1890)
W Russell
Thomas Adams and Sons, Edinburgh, 1890
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Popular Opinions, or A Picture of Real Life (Signed copy)
A rarity of 19th century Scottish verse, this copy inscribed by the author to literary critic Sir Francis Jeffrey
Anonymous, possibly by Thomas Bell
James Hedderwick & Co, Glasgow, 1812
Sold
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Churchyard's Chips concerning Scotland
Being a Collection of Thomas Churchyard's Pieces Relative to that Country; with Historical Notices, and a Life of the Author.
George Chalmers
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Children's Costume from the Great Masters
Signed by Spanish artist Gregorio Prieto
Percy MacQuoid
Medici Society, London, 1923
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Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
G.P.U. Justice
The workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s
Maurice Edelman
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Contes Indiens
1883, Les Trente-deux Recits du Trone (Batris-Sinhasan / Singhasan Battisi)
Leon Feer
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Recueil de Contes Populaires Grecs
1881, a collection of Greek folk tales
Emile Legrand
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1881
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Huit Siecles de Poesie Francaise
Eight centuries of French poetry, in a fine leather binding from Hatchette of London
B H Chamberlain, editor
Payot et Cie, Paris, 1927
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Corona Benignitatis Anni Dei
Paul Caludel's poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hatchette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
L'Annonce faite à Marie
A 1914 edition of Claudel's play, The Tidings Brought to Mary
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
An Indian Day
Edward Thompson's first Indian novel
Edward Thompson
Alfred A Knopf, London, 1927
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The 77th Day
A thriller from the German Edgar Wallace...
Hans Possendorf, pseud. Hans Mahner-Mons
Hutchinson, London, 1937
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Le Voyageur sur la Terre
Four stories from Julien Green, including Les Clefs de la Mort, Christine and Leviathan
Julien Green
Libraire Plon, Paris, 1930
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover