Recent Additions
The Crafty Farmer, A Spanish Folk Tale (Signed copy)
Signed by the illustrator, Gregorio Prieto
Gregorio Prieto, illustrator. Translated and introduced by Henry Thomas
The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938
£100.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Presence of the Past
Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life—from the library of Sinhalese scholar C H B Reynolds
Steven Kemper
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, 1991
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Noncapitalist Way
Soviet Experience and the Liberated Countries
Igor Andreyev, translated by Galina Sbodnikova
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Grounds for Divorce in Hindu and English Law (Signed copy)
Inscribed by the author for E P Skone-James
P K Virdi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1972
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Flower Foes
1923, a book of garden pests from the editor of Amateur Gardening
T W Sanders, illustrated in colour by Miss Kate Ashley
W H & L Collingridge, London, 1923
£15.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Cosmic Rhythm of Art and Literature
1948, a series of essays on French and English art and culture
Mary P Harris
Frank Cork, Adelaide, 1948
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Work & Property etc
1937, eight essays by Eric Gill
Eric Gill, illustrated by Denis Tegetmeier
J M Dent for Hague & Gill, London, 1937
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Science in History
1954, the first edition of J D Bernal's monumental work
J D Bernal
Watts & Co, London, 1954
£33.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kelly's Directory of Norfolk and Suffolk 1904
Complete with two fold-out maps
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1904
£50.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Hume and the Enlightenment
Essays Presented to Ernest Campbell Mossner
William B Todd, editor
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1974
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
India's Love Lyrics
In an attactive but worn half-morocco binding
Laurence Hope, pseud. Violet Nicolson
John Lane, New York, 1910
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
1964, the first UK edition
Andrew Turnbull, editor
The Bodley Head, London, 1964
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
To the Highlands in 1786 (Signed copy)
Signed by Norman Scarfe to Morton N Cohen, plus letter
Norman Scarfe, with a foreword by Francois Crouzet
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2001
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Girl in Gingham (Signed copy)
Two novellas, signed by John Metcalf
John Metcalf
Oberon Press, Ottawa, Canada, 1978
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Praise of Older Women
1966, the third UK printing
Stephen Vizinczey
Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1966
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sounding Stones of Architecture
Philip N Youtz's philosophy of architecture (1929)
Philip N Youtz
W W Norton, New York, 1929
£12.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
Soviet Films, Principal Stages of Development
1951, three essays by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigori Aleksandrov, and Ivan Piryev
Vsevolod Pudovkin, with Grigori Aleksandrov, and Ivan Piryev
People's Publishing House, Bombay, 1951
£20.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | First Editions
Arts and Crafts Essays
1903, including William Morris, Walter Crane, W R Lethaby, Somers Clarke et al
William Morris, preface
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903
Sold
Crafts | Hard Cover
Good-bye Mr Chips
1938, the first printing of the play edition
James Hilton, and Barbara Burnham
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1938
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Greek Nature Stories
1929, the natural world told through Greek mythology and ancient history
E Iliff Robson, illustrated by E M Ball
Jonathan Cape, London, 1929
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chroniques et Legendes des Rues de Paris
1864, the first French edition
Eduoard Fournier
E Dentu, Paris, 1864
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire for 1907
Complete with large fold-out map
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1907
£40.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Cosmic Loom, The New Science of Astrology (Signed copy)
Signed by Dennis Elwell
Dennis Elwell
Unwin Hyman, London, 1987
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Post Office London Directory for 1903
Rebound in two volumes, including trades, streets, businesses and residents
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1903
On Hold
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Three Female Myths of the 20th Century
Garbo, Callas, and Navratilova
Iris Bunsch
Vantage Press, New York, 1991
£30.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper