Browse by Date—1950–
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reproduction in Antelopes
Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)
F I B Kayanja
East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Arnander
Christopher Arnander, editor
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Holocaust, The Jewish Tragedy (Signed copy)
With a handwritten postcard from Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert
HarperCollins, London, 1987
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The four Sammy books
Ron & Atie van der Meer's My Brother Sammy, Sammy and Mara, Naughty Sammy, and Sammy and the Cat Party
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
Hopes and Fears for Art & Signs of Change
William Morris' essays
William Morris, with a new introduction by Peter Faulkner
Thoemmes, Bristol, 1994
£14.00
William Morris | Soft Cover | First thus
La Nekonata Konato (The Unknown Acquaintance) (Signed copy)
Signed by Douglas P Boatman, a mystery novel in Esperanto
Douglas P Boatman
Eldonejo TK, Kopenhago / Copenhagen, 1977
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Peter de Francia, Modern Myths: Drawings from Four Decades
An exhibition booklet from New York, 2008
Dore Ashton, introductory essay
New York Studio School, New York, 2008
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The ABC Bunny
1969, a reprint of Wanda Gag's illustrated run through the alphabet
Wanda Gag, hand-lettered by Howard Gag
Faber & Faber, London, 1969
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Le Voyage de Hollande et autres poemes
1965, a late collection of poems by Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon
Editions Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1965
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover
The Sea is My Country
The Maritime World of the Makahs, an Indigenous Borderlands People
Joshua L Reid
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2015
Sold
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Our Secret Economy
Graeme Shankland's booklet on the "Response of the Informal Economy to the Rise of Mass Unemployment"
Graeme Shankland
Anglo-German Foundation, London, 1980
£12.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro (Signed copy)
Signed by Alison Fell
Alison Fell, (editor), translated by Arye Blower, with an introduction by Sir Geoffrey Montague-Pollock
Serpent's Tail, London, 1994
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Echoes from the Sky (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Scarth, the story of acoustic defence on the Kent coast
Richard N Scarth
Hythe Civic Society, Hythe, 1999
£25.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
I'll Fly No More, An Airwoman's Diary (Signed copy)
Signed by Ursula Barnett Potter
Ursula Barnett Potter
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Following On
The Bedser's cricketing biography signed by Welsh footballers and boxers: Jack Matthews, George Edwards, Alf Sherwood, Jack Petersen, and Dai Dower
Alec and Eric Bedser
Evans Brothers, London, 1954
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Military History of Late Rome 395–425
The third book in this ambitious series
Ilkka Syvanne
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2020
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Small Island
The first printing of the first edition, 2014
Andrea Levy
Review, London, 2014
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Making of the New Testament Documents
A study of the authorship of the Gospels and Letters
E Earle Ellis
Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover
New Daughters of Africa (Signed copy)
Signed by Margaret Busby (editor) and Patience Agbabi (poet, contributor)
Margaret Busby, editor
Myriad, Oxford, 2019
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Discover London in 2 Days Leisurely
1969, with pen and ink drawings by Andrew Dodds
Charles Loewenthal, (text), black & white maps by Michael Hoad, drawings by Andrew Dodds
Loewenthal / Carney, London, 1969
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First Editions
Undesirable Alien
Regis Debray's novel of revolutionaries
Regis Debray, translated by Rosemary Sheed
Allen Lane, London, 1978
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
