Recent Additions

1948, signed by Lieut.-Gen. Richard N "Wiindy" Gale

Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1948

Naomi Mitchison's first book, a tale of the Roman defeat of Gaul

Jonathan Cape, London, 1927

Naomi Mitchison's stories of the Greek city-state Sparta

Jonathan Cape, London, 1928

Naomi Mitchison's novel of the Peloponnesian War and the eclipse of Athens

Jonathan Cape, London, 1926

Naomi Mitchison's short stories of the Roman Empire

Jonathan Cape, London, 1924

Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1927

A second impression of Mark Freshfield's novel of West Africa

Faber & Faber, London, 1947

Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations

Macmillan, London, 1924

Two very decent reprinted editions of Kipling's classic tales

Macmillan, London, 1924

James Joyce's short work that would be part of Finnegans Wake

Faber & Faber, London, 1932

This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board

John Murray, London, 1923

Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki's word frequency study, "statistically determined from the latest word-counts"

Matsumura Sanshodo, Tokyo, 1932

1971, Miguel Serrano's personal recollections

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1971

A nice first printing of Vita Sackville-West's long poem

Michael Joseph, London, 1946

Gertrude Stein's illustrated study of Pablo Picasso

Batsford, London, 1938

Signed by George "Dadie" Rylands, in the rare original glassine wrap, printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf

The Hogarth Press, London, 1931

Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students

George G. Harrap, London, 1918

1920, first edition bound in full leather

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920

A semi-abstract painting of the late evening summer sun catching pylons

Original Artwork, Stelling Minnis, 1995

The two volume Library Edition of J B Bury's history

Macmillan, London, 1902

The RCHM's detailed report, with maps, plans and photographs

HMSO, London, 1937

A very good copy with Christ's Hospital crest in gilt

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1920

E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930

1924, a nicely bound copy of Pierre Benoit's 1919 classic French lost-world novel

Albin Michel, Paris, 1924

Archibald Lyall's phrase-book, in a striking dustwrapper

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1932