Recent Additions
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
c1885, with pages printed in different colours and with 106 illustrations
William Wordsworth, with 106 illustrations by Birket Foster, J Wolf, and Sir John Gilbert, R A.
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1885
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
La Sagesse et La Destinee
Maurice Maeterlinck's philosophical work on the nature of life, death, etc
Maurice Maeterlinck
Bibliotheque Charpentier, Paris, 1923
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Wanderings by the Seine
1835, with 20 engravings by J M W Turner
Leitch Ritche, engravings by J M W Turner
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, London, 1835
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Winning the Peace
British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference 1916–1920
Erik Goldstein
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Edgar Degas Letters
1947, signed by British artist David Heathcote
Marcel Guerin, editor, translated by Marguerite Kay
Bruno Cassirer, London, 1947
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Flawed Angel (Signed copy)
Signed by John Fuller
John Fuller
Chatto & Windus, London, 2005
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The British Communist Party
Its Origin and Development until 1929
L J Macfarlane
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1966
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World
1930, first edition, with 22 plates
Henry N Ridley, illustrated by the author and Miss M B Moss
L Reeve & Co, Ashford, 1930
£50.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Windlestraw (Signed copy)
Signed by Pamela Tennant, A Book of Verse with Legends in Rhyme of the Plants and Animals
Pamela Tennant
The Chiswick Press, London, 1905
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Old Rabbit the Voodoo and Other Sorcerers
1893, first edition of this collection of Missouri folklore tales, illustrated by Louis Wain
Mary Alicia Owen, introduction by Charles Godfrey Leland. Illustrated by Juliette A Owen and Louis Wain
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1893
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Whichever Way We Turn
Romany life in the 1960s
Dominic Reeve, illustrated by Beshlie
Country Book Club, London, 1965
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover
The Stage Cyclopaedia—A Bibliography of Plays
1909, this copy signed by Montague Berryman, a barrister of 12 King's Bench Walk
Reginald Clarence, compiler
The Stage, London, 1909
£12.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Tiny Lies (Signed copy)
Signed by Kate Pullinger, a proof copy of her first book
Kate Pullinger
Jonathan Cape, London, 1988
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Truth about Reparations and War-Debts
1932, Lloyd George's warning on the overly harsh conditions attached to Germany
David Lloyd George
Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1932
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The House of God (Signed copy)
Signed by Ernest H Short, a history of religious architecture and symbolism
Ernest H Short
Macmillan, New York, 1926
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by E M Forster
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books, London, 1948
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Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
What Becomes (Signed copy)
Signed by A L Kennedy
A L Kennedy
Jonathan Cape, London, 2009
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Karl Marx on China 1853–1860
Articles from The New York Daily Tribune
Dona Torr, introduction and notes
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1951
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Laughter on the Stairs
1953, the first edition of second book of the "Merry Hall" trilogy
Beverley Nichols, illustrated by William McLaren
Jonathan Cape, London, 1953
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Enemy Coast Ahead
Guy Gibson's autobiography, including the Dambuster raid
Guy Gibson, with an introduction by Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Harris
Michael Joseph, London, 1952
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Daphnis and Chloe, A Pastoral Romance
c1890, Vizetelly & co, with 9 full page plates
Longus, with engravings after designs by Prudhon, Baron Gerard, and Philippe D'Orleans
Vizetelly & Co, London, 1890
£20.00
Classics | Hard Cover | First thus
A Treasury of War Poetry
Two volumes, 1917 & 1919, a comprehensive collection of verse
George Herbert Clarke, editor
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1917
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Early to Rise, A Suffolk morning
Agricultural life in Suffolk in the 1930s
Hugh Barrett, illustrated by Roderic Barrett
Faber & Faber, London, 1967
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Below Scafell
Farming life in Eskdale
Dudley Hoys, illustrated by Lynton Lamb
Oxford University Press, London, 1955
£12.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Norman Cornish, A Shot Against Time
A study of the Spennymoor artist
Mara-Helen Wood, editor, with essays by William Feaver, William Varley, Michael Chaplin and Dr Gail-Nina Anderson
Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010
£28.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions