Browse by Date—1950–
The Diary of a Young Girl
1952, the first UK edition of Anne Frank's remarkable diary
Anne Frank, translated from the Dutch by B M Mooyart-Doubleday, with a foreword by Storm Jameson
Constellation Books, London, 1952
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Watt
The Olympia Press's first trade edition of 1958, and Beckett's second novel
Samuel Beckett
The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Places Where They Sing & Sound the Retreat (Signed copy)
With a typed letter signed by Simon Raven, the sixth book in the Alms for Oblivion series.
Simon Raven
Anthony Blond, London, 1970
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Miss May, The Story of an Englishwoman (Signed copy)
Signed by SOE agent and gulag-survivor Mary Allison Miske (Miss May)
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Road to Life (An Epic of Education)
A S Makarenko's account of the Maxim Gorky Colony
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, designed by I Tsarevich
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1955
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Artist's Model
1953, John Everard's photographic studies of the human form including nudes
John Everard, introduction and commentary by Charles Simpson
The Bodley Head, London, 1953
£15.00
Photography | Hard Cover
The Spy and his Masters
1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Playe
1966, first edition, 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Irving Chernev
Faber & Faber, London, 1966
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Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962
Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Golden Lotus
Clement Egerton's four volume translation of Chin P'ing Mei
Clement Egerton, his translation after Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (attrib)
Graham Brash, Singapore, 1980
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Slipcase
The Moving Waters
1956, John Stewart Collis's study of water in all its forms
John Stewart Collis, illustrated by Nicholas Egon
The Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1956
£12.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Guide to the Stars
Patrick Moore's 1960 title, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Patrick Moore, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Scientific Book Club, London, 1960
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Another Country
James Baldwin's 1963 classic, with superb dustwrapper art by Noelle Sandwith
James Baldwin, dustwrapper by Noelle Ora Sandwith
The Book Club, London, 1963
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1964, The Reprint Society's edition
John Le Carre
The Reprint Society, London, 1964
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Two A J P Taylor first editions
Englishmen and Others (1956) and From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1966)
A J P Taylor
Various, London, 1956
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends
A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Red Square at Noon
1973, the first Penguin edition
Natalia Gorbanevskaya, translated by Alexander Lieven
Penguin Books, London, 1973
£10.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£15.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)
A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Barbara Ninde Byfield, illustrated by the author
Macmillan, New York, 1967
£60.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The War Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45
with postcard signed by the publisher, Nicola Beauman
Vere Hodgson, with a new preface by Jenny Hartley
Persephone Books, London, 1999
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Aristide Maillol (Signed copy)
From the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Bertrand Lorquin
Thames and Hudson, London, 1995
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Igor Mitoraj (Signed copy)
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Donald Kuspit, and Giovanni Testori (text), introduction by John Russell Taylor. Photographs by Liberto Perugi
Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1992
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Caro (Signed copy)
This copy signed by British artist and sculptor David Heathecote
John Riddy, photography, Karen Wilkin (text), Ian Barker (editor)
Prestel, Munich, 1991
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
The Maltese Cat
1955, Kipling's story of a polo playing pony in India
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Lionel Edwards
Macmillan, London, 1955
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Naval Mutinies of 1797, Unity and Perseverance
A comprehensive study
Ann Veronica Coats, and Philip MacDougall, editors
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2011
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
