Recent Additions
Pain, Sex and Time
A New Hypothesis of Evolution—and James Dean's favourite book!
Gerald Heard
Cassell, London, 1940
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Philosophy | Hard Cover
The Art of Public Speaking
c1923, with tips on electioneering etc
Lucy D Bell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover
The Right to Strike
A rare 1921 novel of industrial action and its consequences
Ernest Hutchinson, and Geo. Goodchild
Robert Hayes, London, 1921
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Brain Tests
1925, an American book of brain teasers from G P Putnam and John Monk Saunders
John Monk Saunders, and George Palmer Putnam
G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1925
£15.00
Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions
Modern Things
1934, Modern American poetry including Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Parker Tyler
Parker Tyler, editor
The Galleon Press, New York, 1934
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Les Chants du Bivouac
1914, a rare collection of soldier songs from the Great War
Theodore Botrel, preface by Maurice Barres, illustrated by Carlegle, and with a portrait of the author by Paul Jobert
Payot et Cie, Paris, 1914
£15.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Transformation of Nature in Art
Coomaraswamy's text, with a compliments slip from the editor, Kapila Vatsyayan
Ananda K Coomaraswamy, edited by Kapila Vatsyayan
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 1995
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Marriage of Shiva and Aphrodite
and The Bliss of the Dance of Creation
Stephen R Hill
Duckworth & Co, London, 2009
£25.00
History | Soft Cover
France Overseas
The Great War and the Climax of French Imperial Expansion
Christopher M Andrew, and A S Kanya-Forstner
Thames and Hudson, London, 1981
£10.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ices and How to Make Them
1907, with hints and recipes for all manner of iced desserts etc
Charles Herman Senn
Food and Cookery Publishing Agency, London, 1907
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Food & Drink | Hard Cover
The Good Old Cause (Signed copy)
Signed by Willie Thompson, British Communism 1920–1991
Willie Thompson
Pluto Press, London, 1992
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History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
El Lissitzky: Design
A profusely illustrated guide to the Russian artist
John MIlner
Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 2009
£10.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kingmaker
De Rauw-Sablon, a Racing Pigeon Dynasty
Silvio Mattacchione, and Nikolaas Gysebrecht
Pigeonparadise, Knesselare, 2012
£30.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Art of a Champion
Ronald Geerdink's catalogue of champion pigeons from Europe and America
Ronald Geerdink
Neerlands Postduivan Orgaan, Steenbergen, 2003
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Organic Derivatives of Tellurium
and Interaction of Ethylene and Sulphur Monochloride, with a memoir of Richard Henry Vernon
Richard Henry Vernon
Transactions of the Chemical Society, London, 1920
£15.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Jim Russell Story (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Jim Russell
Norman Greenway
Transport Bookman Publications, Isleworth, 1999
£25.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
J D Bernal's inquiry into the future of three enemies of the rational soul
J D Bernal, with a new foreword by the author
Jonathan Cape, London, 1970
£25.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Soft Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Register of Aldenham School 1913
A record of past pupils and masters
Edmund Beevor, compiler
Privately printed, 1913
£15.00
School & University Registers | Hard Cover
Garden Party, Collected Writings 1979–1999 (Signed copy)
Signed by Roy Strong
Roy Strong
Frances Lincoln, London, 2000
£15.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Real Picture, Films and the Post Office (Signed copy)
Signed by Forsyth Hardy, Collis Clements, Alma Headland and John Cook
Forsyth Hardy
Post Office, London, 1993
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Stimuli
Ronald Knox's monthly meditations
Ronald Knox
Sheed and Ward, London, 1952
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kelly's Directory of Cumberland 1894
Professionally rebound, complete with folding map
Kelly's Directories
Kelly & Co, London, 1894
£50.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
The Magdala Trilogy
Peter Longley's A Star's Legacy, Beyond the Olive Grove, and The Mist of God
Peter Longley
iUniverse Inc, New York, 2009
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kelly's Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire 1895
Professionally rebound, with three maps
Kelly's Directories
Kelly & Co, London, 1895
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Genealogy | Hard Cover
Far-Right.com; Nationalist Extremism on the Internet
from the Mapping the Far Right series
Paul Jackson, and Gerry Gable (editors)
Searchlight Magazine, Northampton, 2011
£20.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions