Browse by Date—1950–
Quiet Voyage (1989) by David Holt
A wonderful original semi-abstract oil painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1989
£70.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Jackstraws (1987) by David Holt
Original semi-abstract oil painting, framed
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1987
£50.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Alice in Wonderland
With colour illustrations by Dutch artist Willy Schermele
Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Willy Schermele
Juvenile Productions Ltd, London, 1960
£20.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Business of Women's Magazines (Signed copy)
Signed by both authors, Brian Braithwaite and Joan Barrell
Brian Braithwaite, and Joan Barrell
Associated Business Press, London, 1979
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Romantic Revolution (Signed copy)
Signed by Tim Blanning, the first printing
Tim Blanning
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2010
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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
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
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
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
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
£30.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
£12.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
