Browse by Date—1950–
Rum, Yesterday and Today
First edition, a history of the drink from its first distillation in Barbados
Hugh Barty-King, and Anton Massel, foreword by Hammond Innes
William Heinemann, London, 1983
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
L (Signed copy)
Signed by French artist Benoit Jacques
Benoit Jacques
Editions de l'Association, Paris, 2010
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Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The White Men (Signed copy)
Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"
Julia Blackburn, foreword by Dr Edmund Carpenter
Orbis, London, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
After You with the Pistol
The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Secker & Warburg, London, 1979
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ray Atkins, Recent realist paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Ray Atkins
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hepher, paintings, reliefs and collages, of interiors and exteriors
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
David Hepher, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Henri Chopin, Graphic, objective and other poems
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Henri Chopin
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Marc Chagall, en Terre Promise
2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations
Francois Chapon
Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Blue Cockerel (1994) by David Holt
A vibrant, colourful original abstract framed oil on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1994
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David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1989
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate
United Nations Peacekeeping 1946–1967, Documents and Commentary
Vol 1: The Middle East (1969), Vol 2. Asia (1970), with a signed card from the author, Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins
Oxford University Press, London, 1969
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Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Night Field (2000) by David Holt
A large original abstract oil painting, 76 × 101cm
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2000
£100.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War (with signed letters)
Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell
Martin Gilbert
John Murray, London, 2006
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, A Record Obsession (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt
John Pettitt
The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Maria, Beyond the Callas Legend (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
£20.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Theatrical Companion to Coward
A Pictorial Record of the Theatrical Works of Noel Coward (2000, 2nd ed)
Raymond Mander, and Joe Mitchenson, updated by Barry Day and Sheridan Morley, with an appreciation by Terence Rattigan
Oberon Books, London, 2000
£15.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Reimagining Britain, Foundations for Hope (Signed copy)
Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur
Justin Welby
Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems of Ivor Gurney 1890–1937
1973, a reissue of Blunden's 1954 edition, with a new bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Ivor Gurney, with an introduction by Edmund Blunden and a bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Chatto & Windus, London, 1973
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Shameful Harvest
1952, A G Street's novel of farming loosely based on the case of farmer George Walden
A G Street, dustwrapper by Edwin La Dell
Faber & Faber, London, 1952
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Bomber Command War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt to Bomber Command veteran Les King, DFM
Martin Middlebrook, and Chris Everitt
Viking, London, 1985
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Animal Farm, A Fairy Story
A 1971 printing from the Collected Edition of George Orwell
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Genesis of Wuthering Heights (Signed copy)
Signed by Mary Visick
Mary Visick, introduction by Edmund Blunden
Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1958
£35.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Gustav Holst, A Biography
Imogen Holst's biography of her husband
Imogen Holst, with a note by R Vaughan Williams
Oxford University Press, London, 1974
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
