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The Island of California

A History of the Myth. The hardback first US edition.
Dora Beale Polk
The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Sisters in Arms (Signed copy)

Signed by Nicola Tyrer. British Army Nurses of the Second World War tell their story
Nicola Tyrer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Fifteen Rounds a Minute (Signed copy)

First edition, signed by J M Craster, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Great War, August to December 1914
J M Craster, edited from the diaries of Major 'MA' Jeffreys and Others
Macmillan, London, 1976
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Death and Eternal Life

John Hick's study into the mystery of death
John Hick
Collins, London, 1976
£15.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Strange Case of Thomas Walker (Signed copy)

1957, first edition. Signed by the author, Frida Knight, Communist and activist
Frida Knight, foreword by G D H Cole
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1957
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Art and the Industrial Revolution

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Francis D Klingender, edited and revised by Arthur Elton
Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate

German Romanticism and English Art

This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
William Vaughan
Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1979
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate

The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences

1942 hardback edition of J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938
J B S Haldane
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942
£35.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

Jane Austen in Australia (Signed copy)

First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson
Barbara Ker Wilson
Secker & Warburg, London, 1984
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The King's Drum

Harold Coulander's collection of African folk tales (1963)
Harold Courlander, illustrated by Enrico Arno
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883

First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The "Green Pelican" and other stories

First edition, seven charming stories by Robert Tredinnick, aka Uncle Robert
Robert Tredinnick, illustrated by John Read
Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1944
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning

1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel
Raymond Williams
Chatto & Windus, London, 1989
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates

The artists's "The Gates" installation in New York's Central Park
Jan Greenberg, and Sandra Jordan
Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2008
£10.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

The Sphinx, The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough (Signed copy)

First edition, signed and dedicated by Hugo Vickers
Hugo Vickers
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Russian Pluralism: Now Irreversible?

1992, first edition. The politics and society of Russia, post-USSR
Uri Ra’anan, with Keith Armes, Kate Martin (editors), with a contribution by Yelena Bonner
St Martin's Press, New York, 1992
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Kings of Space

1954, first edition, an adventure for W E John's Group-Captain Timothy 'Tiger' Clinton
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Stead
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Man Who Vanished into Space

1963, first edition, another adventure for W E John's spaceship Tavona.
Captain W E Johns
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Sir Thomas Beecham, A Centenary Tribute (Signed copy)

Signed by Lady Shirley Beecham
Alan Jefferson, foreword by Sir Robert Mayer
World Records, London, 1979
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus

Inside South America (Signed copy)

Signed by John Gunther, from the library of Fleur Cowles
John Gunther
Harper & Row, New York, 1967
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll

2nd edition, a good selection covering 1837 to 1898
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Macmillan, London, 1989
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

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
£14.95
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Plenty

David Hare's critically acclaimed play, this edition from The Faber Library
David Hare
Faber & Faber, London, 1997
£12.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus

Henry Moore: In the Light of Greece (Signed copy)

Signed by author and cataloguer, Roger Cardinal to sculptor David Heathcote
Roger Cardinal
Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 2000
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

Lucy's Nose

First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess
Cecily Mackworth
Carcanet, Manchester, 1992
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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