Recent Additions
A World of Folk Tales
Five volumes of illustrated folk stories from around the world
James Riordan, with various illustrators
Paul Hamlyn, London, 1981
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Leaves of Grass
An attractive copy of the Centenary Edition (1923)
Walt Whitman, issued under the Editorial Supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Burke, Thomas B Harned, and Horace L Traubel
D Appleton, New York, 1923
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Picturesque Sicily
1902, an illustrated tour of Sicily, with Palermo, Syracuse, Segesta etc
William Agnew Paton
Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1902
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
The Year of Stalingrad
1946, An Historical Record and a Study of Russian Mentality, Methods and Policies
Alexander Werth
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Historian's Craft
1954, The first UK edition of Mark Bloch's classic text
Marc Bloch, translated from the French by Peter Putnam, introduction by Joseph R Strayer
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1954
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Standard Bartender's Guide
1951, over 900 different drinks listed...
Patrick Gavin Duffy
Permabooks, New York, 1951
£12.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover
Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners
A complete year of three-course meals (1915)
Mrs Elizabeth O Hiller
The N K Fairbank Company, New York, 1915
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
This World and That
An Analytical Study of Psychic Communications
Phoebe D Payne, and Laurence J Bendit
Faber & Faber, London, 1950
£12.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
RAF Yatesbury, The History
including the First and Second World Wars, illustrated
Phil Tomaselli
Phil Tomaselli, Bristol, 2004
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Shopping in Oxford (Signed copy)
1941, signed three times by John Masefield
John Masefield
William Heinemann, London, 1941
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The New Canterbury Tales
1811, a rare early title from Oliver Outline, pseudonym of poet Edward Quillinan
Oliver Outline, pseudonym of Edward Quillinan
Henry Colburn, London, 1811
£80.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
D H Lawrence's Nightmare
The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War
Paul Delany
The Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Imagism, A Chapter for the History of Modern Poetry
A first edition of Stanley K Coffman's classic study
Stanley K Coffman
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951
£35.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Naples Riviera (Signed copy)
Signed by Herbert M Vaughan, and with a lengthy inscription from the author
Herbert M Vaughan, illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen
Methuen, London, 1925
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Vocal Physiology, Vocal Culture and Singing (Signed copy)
Signed by J Harry Wheeler of the New England Conservatory of Music
J Harry Wheeler
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 1883
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Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Craft of the Lead Pencil
Mervyn Peake's slim treatise on drawing
Mervyn Peake
Allan Wingate, London, 1946
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Worst Journey in the World
1951, single volume edition with a Postscript
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Chatto & Windus, London, 1951
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First thus
A Midsummer Memory
1910, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations 1941–1945
The history of the two countries relations during the Second World War
Slobodan Nesovic, translated by Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic
Macedonian Review Editions, Skopje, 1979
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Secrets from the Sand (Signed copy)
Signed by Zahi Hawass, his life as an archaeologist and Egyptologist
Zahi Hawass
Thames and Hudson, London, 2003
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Come all ye bold miners
Ballads and Songs from the Coalfields (1952), this copy with gift inscription from R Page Arnot
A L Lloyd, compiler
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1952
£60.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Art and the Built Environment
1982, first edition of this handbook for teachers
Eileen Adams, and Colin Ward
Longman, London, 1982
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Pick a Pair!
A wonderful 1979 games book with 30 board games for 2 players
Frank Tapson, and Alan Parr
A & C Black, London, 1979
£20.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions
South Battersea: The Formative Years 1851–1900
A South London history
Roger Logan
Wandsworth Historical Society, London, 1977
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Crisis of Brilliance 1908–1922
C.R.W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington, David Bomberg and Paul Nash
David Boyd Haycock, with essays by Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris
Scala / Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2013
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
