Recent Additions
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 House at Pooh Corner
1929, the third edition
A A Milne, with decorations by E H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1929
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
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
Architecture for Children
1945, Jane and Maxwell Fry's illustrated guide
Jane and Maxwell Fry
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1945
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | 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
Therese
1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's novel
Francois Mauriac, translated by Eric Sutton
Martin Secker, London, 1928
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Journal of Researches
1907, Charles Darwin's journey aboard H.M.S. Beagle
Charles Darwin
John Murray, London, 1907
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover
Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative
The radical American poet's second book, 1929
Walter Lowenfels, with a prefatory note by Humbert Wolfe
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
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 Coming of the Monster
A Tale of the Masterful Monk (Problems of Human Happiness V)—1938
Owen Francis Dudley
Longmans, London, 1938
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee
1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
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
The Life Beyond the Veil, Spirit Messages Received and Written Down
Book II: The Highlands of Heaven (1920, 1st)
The Rev G Vale Owen, with an appreciation by Lord Northcliffe and a preface and notes by H W Engholm
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1920
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions
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
