Browse by Date—1950–
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
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
Radio Caroline
1967, John Venmore-Rowland's history of the first British off-shore radio station
John Venmore-Rowland
The Landmark Press, Lavenham, 1967
£20.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Plotters (Signed copy)
Signed by Un-Su Kim, a numbered limited edition with black sprayed edges
Un-Su Kim
Fourth Estate, London, 2019
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Moonshine, Dreamworks Artists... After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Christophe Lautrette and with a hand-drawn cartoon
Christophe Lautrette, and Pierre Olivier Vincent (editors)
Design Studio Press, Culver City, CA, 2010
£30.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Same Old Story
Uncorrected proof copy of Robert Nye's stories, published as The Facts of Life
Robert Nye
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Slant of the Pen
1980, a study of racism in children's books
Roy Preiswerk, editor
World Council of Churches, Geneva, 1980
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
Singled Out (Signed copy)
Hardback, signed by Virginia Nicholson, How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
Virginia Nicholson
Penguin / Viking, London, 2007
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery (Signed copy)
Signed by Terry Jones, with ticket to a 2005 book signing & lecture
Terry Jones, with Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, and Jeanette Dor
Methuen, London, 2004
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus | Illustrated
Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
The developments of the Gothic novel from the 18th to the late 19th centuries
Patrick R O'Malley
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
£40.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover
Bomb Culture
1968, a first hardback edition of Jeff Nuttall's exploration of 1960s alternative society and counterculture
Jeff Nuttall
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1968
£37.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, Transformations of an Art
A Greek illustrated study of the great Diva (Oi Metmorfoseis Mias Technis)
Vasilis Nikolaidis
Cedar, Athens, 1982
£40.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Plastik (Signed copy)
Signed by Jo Jastram, the German sculptor
Jo Jastram
Rheinland-Vlg, Germany, 1989
£50.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Danger Tree (Signed copy)
1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy
Olivia Manning, dustwrapper by Albert Runciman Cummings
The Book Club, London, 1980
£70.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Vanessa Bell, A Life of Painting
No 21 in Cecil Woolf's Bloomsbury Heritage series
Rachel Tranter
Cecil Woolf, London, 1998
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Unknown Maria Callas
1998, the first Greek edition of Nicholas Petsalis-Diomidis's biography
Nicholas Petsalis-Diomidis
Kastaniotis, Athens, 1998
£25.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Master Class
The first Greek edition of Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas
Terrence McNally, translated by Marios Ploritis
Kastaniotis, Athens, 1997
£10.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Silvered Armour of Henry VIII in the Tower of London
1965, from the library of John Tofts White
Claude Blair
Vivian Ridler, Oxford, 1965
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Women in Focus; Contemporary Irish Women's Lives (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by both authors, Pat Murphy and Nell McCafferty
Pat Murphy, and Nell McCafferty
Attic Press, Dublin, 1986
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Self-Management and the Trade Unions in Some Yugoslav Enterprises
A report from the National Union of Miners (Kent Area) 1971
Jack Dunn, and John Thirkell
The Workers' Educational Association, Rochester, 1971
£15.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Angela Carter, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Victor Gollancz, London, 1982
£12.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Women in Anglo-Saxon England
and the Impact of 1066
Christine Fell, with Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams
A Colonnade Book / British Museum, London, 1984
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
