Recent Additions
Worzel Gummidge Again
1937, first edition of the second Worzel adventure
Barbara Euphan Todd, illustrated by Elizabeth Alldridge
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1937
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
London After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard
Robert Fabian
The Naldrett Press, London, 1954
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Death at the Chateau (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Moore
Ian Moore
Farrago, London, 2023
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Joseph John Gurney, a handwritten, signed letter to his family from New York, 1838
An important Quaker letter, referencing the schism in Quakerism, and his reforms in America
Joseph John Gurney
Not Published, New York, 1838
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Clara Schumann, signed & handwritten postcard
Undated, but sent on one her London visits
Clara Schumann
Not Published, n.d.
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Henry Scott Tuke, handwritten letter from Swanpool, Falmouth
Henry Scott Tuke
Not Published, Swanpool, Falmouth, 1895
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
England, their England
1935, a fairly early printing of A G Macdonell's satire in the original wrapper
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Second Stage Lensmen
1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Grey Lensman
1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Winged Victory (Signed copy)
Signed by Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas, as well as Battle of Britain ace Dennis David, German air ace Gunther Rall and aviation artist Michael Turner
J E 'Johnnie' Johnson, and P B 'Laddie' Lucas
Stanley Paul, London, 1995
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Stapme, The Biography of Squadron Leader Basil Gerald Stapleton (Signed copy)
Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)
David Ross. Dustwrapper art by Nicolas Trudgian
Grub Street, London, 2002
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rowland Mason Ordish, original documents pertaining to Albert Bridge, 1857–1871
with an original drawing by Max Ende, and a signed copy of Harold Hartley's Eight Eight—Not Out (1939)
Rowland Mason Ordish, and including Max Ende, Harold T Hartley and Charles Wessely
Not Published, London, n.d.
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Handwritten | Association Copy
Reproduction in Antelopes
Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)
F I B Kayanja
East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Hausa-English Dictionary and English-Hausa Vocabulary
Compiled for the Government of Nigeria. With Some Notes on the Hausa People and their Language by Professor D Westermann
The Rev G P Bargery
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1951
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
Dictionary of the Hausa Language
1968, owned and rebound by British artist David Heathcote
R C Abraham
University of London Press, London, 1968
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Poems of The Land Army
1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army
Vita Sackville-West, (foreword)
The Land Girl, London, 1945
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Tale of Li Wa
Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century
Glen Dudbridge
Ithaca Press, London, 1983
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Folk Song in England
1967, a first edition of A L Loyd's seminal study
A L Lloyd
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1967
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vain Glory (Signed copy)
This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.
Guy Chapman, editor
Cassell, London, 1937
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Paul Nash, The Master of Image 1889–1946
with 144 illustrations
Margot Eates, preface by C Day Lewis
John Murray, London, 1973
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions