Browse by Date—1950–
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
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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
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
Die verratene Revolution
1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War
Sebastian Haffner
Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Identity Crisis of Sri Lankan Muslims
A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka
R Vasundhara Mohan
Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987
£15.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
On Alien Rule and Self-Government
A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz
John Plamenatz
Longmans, London, 1960
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century
A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...
Michael Szenberg, with Lall Ramrattan and Aron A Gottesman (editors), foreword by Kenneth J Arrow
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Indignant Heart
1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'
Charles Denby, originally written as Matthew Ward
Pluto Press, London, 1979
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Joey (1980, first edition)
An uncommon book dealing with children and their foster families
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer, afterword by Esther Rantzen
William Heinemann, London, 1980
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Trotskyism after Trotsky
Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists
Tony Cliff
Bookmarks, London, 1999
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
Serbian Legacy
Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia
Cecil Stewart
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
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
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
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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
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
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
