Recent Additions
Handling a Low-Powered Steamer in a Revolving Storm
A 1929 prize-winning essay
Captain J S Commander
Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
In the Day of Battle
1916, an early anthology of Great Poetry, and the first apprearance in book form of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields
Carrie Ellen Holman
William Briggs, Toronto, 1916
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Spirit of the People, An Analysis of the English Mind
Ford Madox Hueffer's study of English mentality
Ford Madox Hueffer
Duckworth & Co, London, 1915
£40.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover
The Bounty of the Gods, A Study in Points of View (1910)
and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)
Lady Helen Forbes
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Secret Kingdom
1911, a parody of Ruritanian romances, with guest appearance from Sherlock Holmes
Frank Richardson
Duckworth & Co, London, 1911
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tal, His Marvellous Adventures with Noor-Zor-Noom
A fantasy adventure from the great-grandson of James Fenimore Cooper
Paul Fenimore Cooper, illustrated by Ruth Reeves
Victor Gollancz, London, 1930
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Quest for Christa T
1971, the first UK edition of Christa Wolf's novel
Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton
Hutchinson, London, 1971
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
JAPANESE SWORDS Token no mikata: gijutsu to ryuha
1971, an illustrated Japanese guide by Yurichi Hiroi
Yurichi Hiroi
Dai-ichi Hoki Shuppan, Tokyo, 1971
£80.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Slipcase
The Golden Staircase, Poems for Children
1906, in a delightful cream cloth and gilt decorated binding
Louey Chisholm, colour plates by M Dibdin Spooner
T C & E C Jack, London, 1906
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Political Essays
Essays from the Russian politician and writer, Roy A Medvedev
Roy A Medvedev
Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1976
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Echo
Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bodies and Souls
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1922
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Dombrovskis: A Photographic Collection
A celebration of photographer Peter Dombrovskis' nature photography
Peter Dombrovskis, photographs, with Essay by Bob Brown and A Personal and Natural History by Jamie Kirkpatrick
West Wind Press, Hobart, Australia, 1998
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Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fundamental Problems of Marxism
1941, this copy owned and signed by architect & planner, Graeme Shankland
G V Plekhanov, edited by D Ryazanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1941
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Transatlantic Review 9
1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson
J F McCrindle, editor
Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Soft Cover | First Editions
Hogarth Living Poets No 24: New Signatures
including W H Auden, Stephen Spender and Julian Bell
Michael Roberts, editor
The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Thoreau Calendar
A Quotation from the Works of Henry David Thoreau for Every Day in the Year (1912)
Henry David Thoreau, edited by E M Evors
Frank Palmer, London, 1912
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Studies in Revolution
1950, E H Carr's essays on Proudhon, Herzen, Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin etc
E H Carr
Macmillan, London, 1950
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
W. H. Smith's & Son's Plan of London with Index, c1875
A large fold-out coloured map of Victorian London
John Bartholomew
W H Smith & Son, London, 1875
On Hold
Maps | Hard Cover
A small collection of a 1930s / 1940s amateur magician's paper ephemera
Howard J Rutter, including wartime concerts
Howard J Rutter
Not Published, Various, 1939
£25.00
Magic | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, and Scenes from Clerical Life
Four George Eliot novels, part only of a set
George Eliot
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1890
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Mother Goose Finger Plays
1915, a charming illustrated guide to finger plays for children
Irene Margaret Cullen
George W Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia, 1915
£16.50
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers
Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014–2016
Christo, and Jeanne-Claude, photographs by Wolfgang Volz, picture commentary by Jonathan Henery and Wolfgang Volz
Taschen, Koln, 2016
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
