Recent Additions

A second impression of Heinrich Harrer's 'History of the Eiger's North Face'

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960

Sir Robert Ball's astronomical classic, in a decorative binding

Cassell, London, 1910

Joseph Shaw's "Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and All Others Concerned with Parish Business"

H Lintot et al, London, 1750

Ernest Raymond's study in the uncommon dustwrapper

Rich & Cowan, London, 1948

1876, leactures by the Dean of Westminster, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

John Murray, London, 1876

Mixed editions but a clean set of Winston S Churchill's monumental history

Cassell, London, 1958

An early printing of these thirteen adventures, illustrated by Sidney Paget

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911

2008, a very good copy of this important study

Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008

First paperback editions of the first two books in the Necroscope series

Grafton Publishing, London, 1986

Signed and dedicated by M John Harrison

Victor Gollancz, London, 1983

A pocket sized paperback edition, with pulp fiction style illustrations

Royce Publishers, Canada, 1944

The eighth impression of Tolkien's comic medieval fable

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971

No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'

John Murray, London, 1973

Jack London's classic, this is the first printing by Methuen

Methuen, London, 1907

The Canadian Army's Winter Warfare Research Programme 1944–1945, a rare military publication

Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 1945

1826, the first edition of this instructive guide to wines, beers, spirits and ciders.

W Wetton et al, London, 1826

Ian Nairn's sequel to Outrage, superbly illustrated

The Architectural Press, London, 1956

Edmund Wilson's "A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930"

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1935

Signed by Richard Cockett, his study of "Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931–1983"

HarperCollins, London, 1994

The second enlarged edition of Egerton Castle's history of bookplates

George Bell & Sons, London, 1893

Jorge Luis Borges seminal short stories, in the original dustwrapper

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962

1757, first edition. Extracts from their travels around the Levant and North Africa

J Smith, Dublin, 1757

James Nelson's seminal study of the health, manners and education of children

R & J Dodsley, London, 1756

Also signed by artists and curators, from the collection of Gordon R Smith

Municipal Cultural Centre, Havirov, Czech Republic, 2002

With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker

Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955