Browse by Date—1950–
The Commitments
1988, the first UK issue in paperback
Roddy Doyle
William Heinemann, London, 1988
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
RAF Yatesbury, The History
including the First and Second World Wars, illustrated
Phil Tomaselli
Phil Tomaselli, Bristol, 2004
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
The End of Print, The Graphic Design of David Carson (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by David Carson
David Carson, and Lewis Blackwell, introduction by David Byrne
Laurence King, London, 1995
£100.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
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
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Donelson F Hoopes
Studio Vista, London, 1971
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | 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 Engraved Designs of William Blake
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Laurence Binyon
Da Capo, New York, 1967
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate
Sir John Everett Millais
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Geoffroy Millais
Academy Editions, London, 1979
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
Recipes for the Bartender
c1950, first edition, a paperback pocket book of cocktails from 21 Brands
21 Brands
21 Brands Inc, New York, 1950
£20.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Making of the English Landscape: Leicestershire
W G Hoskin's Illustrated Essay on the History of the Leicestershire Landscape (1957)
W G Hoskins
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | 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
The Crystal Sun (Signed copy)
A first edition 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
Edward Thomas and the Great War (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Saunders, one of Cecil Woolf's War Poets series
Christopher Saunders
Cecil Woolf, London, 2006
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Edward Halliday, Art for Life 1925–1939
The first illustrated monograph on the Liverpudlian artist
Ann Compton
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1997
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
A Suffolk Harvest
1956, hardback. Adrian Bell's diary of a life in the Suffolk countryside
Adrian Bell
The Bodley Head, London, 1956
£15.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Cloth is the Center of the World
Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives. A 2001 exhibition catalogue with essays
Susan J Torntore, editor
The Goldstein Museum of Design, St Pauls, MN, 2001
£20.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | First Editions
Illuminating the Renaissance
Hardback, first edition. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
Thomas Kren, and Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyzer, Richard Gay, Elizabeth Morrison, Catherine Reynolds
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Two books on Countess Markievicz
Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz, with Amanda Sebestyen, and Anne Marreco
Virago, London, 1987
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
War Requiem & Aftermath
First edition, 2013. Maggi Hambling's art of battlefields and war victims.
Maggi Hambling, with James Cahill
Unicorn Press, London, 2015
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Folk Bronzes of Rajasthan
An illustrated study of the statues from the Northern Indian state, from the library of sculptor David Heathcote
Subhashini Aryan
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1994
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Guide to the Stars
Patrick Moore's 1960 title, super wrapper by Eric Fraser
Patrick Moore, wrapper by Eric Fraser
Scientific Book Club, London, 1960
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Western Women Travelling East 1716–1916
A comprehensive illustrated study of two hundred years of women's travel and writing
Penelope Tuson
The Arcadian Library & OUP, London, 2014
£80.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)
A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Barbara Ninde Byfield, illustrated by the author
Macmillan, New York, 1967
Sold
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Snow Boxes by David Holt (1981)
A large original semi-abstract oil painting on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1981
£150.00
Artwork | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
