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New Daughters of Africa (Signed copy)

Signed by the editor Margaret Busby and poet Patience Agbabi, contributor
Margaret Busby, editor
Myriad, Oxford, 2019
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Poor Monkey, The Child in Literature

First edition, from the library of Professor Morton Cohen and signed by him
Peter Coveney
Rockliff, London, 1957
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Crystal Sun (Signed copy)

Signed by Robert Temple, "Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World"
Robert Temple, introduction by Arthur C Clarke
Century, London, 2000
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Radio Recombination Lines

1980, first edition, Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 24–25, 1979 (Astrophysics & Space Science Library No 80)
P A Shaver, editor, contributors include Daniel Kleppner, Jacqueline van Gorkom, Yervant Terzian, Peter G Mezger, Nino Panagia, Robert L Brown, Edith Falgarone, Jay Lockman, Edward Churchwell, and James S Mathis amongst others.
D Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1980
£70.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Annotated Snark (with signed card)

1962, first edition, with a handwritten card from Martin Gardner to Morton N Cohen
Martin Gardner, and Lewis Carroll, with Henry Holiday's illustrations
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1962
£50.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Sowdone of Bablyone and of Ferumbras his Sone who Conquerede Rome

Volume V of The English Charlemagne Romances (the Sultan of Babylon)
Emil Hausknecht, editor
The Early English Text Society / OUP, London, 1969
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover

Faster than Thought

1953. An early book on digital computing machines, including an important chapter by Alan Turing
B V Bowden, editor, foreword by The Earl of Halsbury. Contributors include Alan Turing, A D Booth and E H Cooke-Yarborough
Isaac Pitman, London, 1953
Sold
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Let's Be Broad-Minded

1960, a lovely copy of this witty account of boating on the Norfolk Broads
Dennis Rooke, illustrated by Alan d'Egville
Blakes, London, 1960
£15.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

The Interpretation of Music

Thurston Dart's study, this copy from the library of pianist and music teacher Alexander Kelly
Thurston Dart
Hutchinson, London, 1960
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Association Copy

Look at Me

First printing of Anita Brookner's third novel
Anita Brookner
Jonathan Cape, London, 1983
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Witness Against the Beast

A first edition of E P Thompson's final book, a study of William Blake and the Moral Law
E P Thompson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing

1999, The Levenger Press' pocket edition of Lewis Carroll's 1890 booklet
Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll, original illustrations by Edward Koren, foreword by Edward Wakeling
Levenger Press, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999
£20.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First thus

Feeding the Mind

1999, The Levenger Press' pocket edition of Lewis Carroll's lecture
Lewis Carroll, original illustrations by Edward Koren, foreword by Edward Wakeling
Levenger Press, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999
£14.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First thus

Star Maker

2004, first paperback printing of this edition of Olaf Stapledon's classic
Olaf Stapledon, foreword by Freeman J Dyson, introduced and edited by Patrick A McCarthy
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2004
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus

Adventures of a Magus

Mars Neumann's visual guide to magick
Mars Neumann
Nox Publishing, Nuremberg, 2023
£15.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Soft Cover

Ask for King Billy

1955, the first printing in dustwrapper of Henry Treece's adventure story
Henry Treece, drawings by Richard Kennedy
Faber & Faber, London, 1955
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Chile, Reality and Prospects of Popular Unity

1972, an elusive title, first paperback edition
Kate Clark
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions

Nymphets and Fairies

Graham Ovenden's selection from the works of three Victorian children's book illustrators: Richard Doyle, E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle), and William Stephen Coleman
Graham Ovenden
Academy Editions, London, 1976
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions

Notes on the History of Shipbuilding in South Shields 1746–1946

First edition, with appendices
Amy C Flagg
South Tyneside Borough Council, 1979
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Everlasting Gospel

A L Morton's study in the sources of William Blake (1958)
A L Morton
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1958
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Diaspora Blues, A View of Israel (Signed copy)

Signed by Clive Sinclair. The first edition, 1987.
Clive Sinclair
William Heinemann, London, 1987
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Genes, Cells and Brains (Signed copy)

Signed by both Hilary & Steven Rose. The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Hilary Rose, and Steven Rose
Verso, London, 2012
£15.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Metroburbia, The Anatomy of Greater London (2017)

together with London: Architecture, Building and Social Change (2015)—two studies of the metropolis by Paul Knox
Paul L Knox
Merrell, London, 2017
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Africa; The Roots of Revolt (Signed copy)

Signed Jack Woddis, 1960 first edition
Jack Woddis
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1960
Sold
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Radio Caroline

1967, John Venmore-Rowland's history of the first British off-shore radio station
John Venmore-Rowland
The Landmark Press, Lavenham, 1967
£25.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

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