Browse by Date—1950–
Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles
A facsimile edition of the the first French translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, translated by Henri Bue, with an introduction by Morton Cohen, illustrated by John Tenniel
Dover, New York, 1972
£10.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First thus
Lewis Carroll, une vie, une legende
The first French edition of Morton Cohen's monumental biography of Lewis Carroll
Morton N Cohen, translated from the English by Laurent Bury
Editions Autrement, Paris, 1998
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Island of California
A History of the Myth. The hardback first US edition.
Dora Beale Polk
The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Gallipoli (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Hart to historian and anthologist Anne Powell
Peter Hart
Profile Books, London, 2013
£12.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Sisters in Arms (Signed copy)
Signed by Nicola Tyrer. British Army Nurses of the Second World War tell their story
Nicola Tyrer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fifteen Rounds a Minute (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by J M Craster, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Great War, August to December 1914
J M Craster, edited from the diaries of Major 'MA' Jeffreys and Others
Macmillan, London, 1976
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Estate Litigation
1987, hardback, first edition of this text on Canadian estate law
Brian A Schnurr
Carswell, Toronto, 1987
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Death and Eternal Life
John Hick's study into the mystery of death
John Hick
Collins, London, 1976
£15.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Case of Thomas Walker (Signed copy)
1957, first edition. Signed by the author, Frida Knight, Communist and activist
Frida Knight, foreword by G D H Cole
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1957
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Journal of William Morris Studies—10 issues
from Summer 2007 to Winter 2011
The William Morris Society
The William Morris Society, London, 2007
£30.00
William Morris | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Commitments
1988, the first UK issue in paperback
Roddy Doyle
William Heinemann, London, 1988
£12.00
Fiction | Soft 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
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
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
Jane Austen in Australia (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson
Barbara Ker Wilson
Secker & Warburg, London, 1984
Sold
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
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
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
Snow Boxes by David Holt (1981)
A large original semi-abstract oil painting on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1981
Sold
David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
A Cloistered War (Signed copy)
Signed by Maisie Duncan, her account of surviving the Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Maisie Duncan
Printed for the Author(s), Helensvale, Queensland, 2002
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning
1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel
Raymond Williams
Chatto & Windus, London, 1989
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates
The artists's "The Gates" installation in New York's Central Park
Jan Greenberg, and Sandra Jordan
Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2008
£10.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
