Recent Additions
The Paintings of William Arkle concerning The Great Gift (Signed copy)
Signed by William Arkle
William Arkle
Neville Spearman, Sudbury, 1977
£30.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Philadelphia Experiment, Project Invisibility (1979)
Charles Berlitz's study of how the US Navy made USS Eldridge (DE-173) disappear...
Charles Berlitz, and William Moore
Souvenir Press, London, 1979
£15.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Versed in Living Nature, Wordsworth's Trees (first edition)
2022, a study of William Wordsworth's profound identification of the spirit of nature in trees
Peter Dale, and Brandon C Yen
Reaktion Books, London, 2022
£18.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Ulysses Annotated
Don Gifford's comprehensive notes on James Joyce's classic
Don Gifford, with Robert J Seidman
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover
Les Croquis de Louis Oury (c1920, assumed first edition)
The sketchbooks of French sculptor Louis Oury
Louis Oury
Devambez, Paris, 1920
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Martin Parr
Val Williams's superbly illustrated retrospective
Val Williams
Phaidon, London, 2008
£35.00
Photography | Soft Cover | Illustrated
The Turn of the Screw: Visual Responses to Britten's Opera (2007)
Limited edition signed by Jane Mackay, Andrew Plant, and James Bowman
Jane Mackay, illustrator, with Andrew Plant (Commentary), and James Bowman (Preface)
Sounding Art Press, London, 2007
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Hans Bellmer (2006, first edition)
A comprehensive monograph of the German artist
Michael Semff, and Anthony Spira (editors), with essays by Agnes de la Beaumelle, Alain Sayag, and Wieland Schmeid
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2006
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Fourth Body (2004, first edition)
Roy Stuart's collection of erotic photography
Roy Stuart
Taschen, Koln, 2004
£40.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
International Lonely Guy (2007, first edition)
Harland Miller's iconoclastic artwork
Harland Miller, contributions by Ed Ruscha, Sophie Fiennes, Gordon Burn and Jarvis Cocker
Rizzoli, New York, 2007
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The First Yinchuan Biennale; For an Image, Faster than Light
2016, featuring Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor, Song Dong and many others
Bose Krishnamachari, curator
MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan City, 2016
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition (2004, first edition)
An illustrated study of Mapplethorpe's prints besides Mannerist prints
Germano Celant, and Arkady Ippolitov, with Karole Vail
Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 2004
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life
2016, first edition, a comprehensive study of the American artist
Jeremy Lewison, editor. Contributions by Bice Curiger, Petra Gördüren, Jeremy Lewison, Laura Stamps and Annamari Vänskä
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2016
£60.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1920s edition, with 16 colour plates by Willy Pogany
Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Willy Pogany
George G. Harrap, London, 1920
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Illustrated
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
2019, a first edition of Jonathan Phillips' biography
Jonathan Phillips
The Bodley Head, London, 2019
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Cartier: The Art and Craft of Cinema (2024)
A rare private publication for the 81st Venice International Film Festival
Cartier
Beaux Arts & Cie, Paris, 2024
£50.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Wodehouse Nuggets (Signed copy)
1993, gems from P G Wodehouse, signed by Richard Usborne
P G Wodehouse, selected by Richard Usborne
James H Heinemann, New York, 1993
£25.00
Humour | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
The World of Interiors, A Decoration Book
1988, the first edition of Min Hogg & Wendy Harrop's decor book
Min Hogg, and Wendy Harrop
Conrad Octopus, London, 1988
£25.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Design and Detail on the Home (Signed first edition)
Signed by David Linley
David Linley. Janet Gleeson (contributing editor), Jan Baldwin (photographer)
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2000
£25.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Silmarillion
1977, the Book Club edition but a pretty good copy
J R R Tolkien
Book Club Associates, London, 1977
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Ordeal (The Sisters, 1918, and Bleak Morning)
1953, Alexei Tolstoy's momumental epic complete in three volumes
Alexei Tolstoy, translated from the Russian by Ivy & Tatiana Litvinova. Illuminations and tailpieces by V Sveshnikov
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Confessions (complete in two volumes)
Augustine's spiritual autobiography, published in the Loeb Classical Library
Augustine, translated by Carolyn J-B Hammond
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2014
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Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The English Roses (2011, signed second edition)
Signed by David Austin, his definitive work on the English Roses
David Austin, photographs by Howard Rice, Andrew Lawson, and Ron Daker
Conrad Octopus, London, 2011
£50.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Advice to the Officers of the British Army (1783, seventh edition)
A rare copy of Francis Grose's satirical guide to British Army life for all ranks. This copy belonging to Captain James Romney, brother of the artist George Romney
Francis Grose, or John Williamson (Please see below)
G Kearsley, London, 1783
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Association Copy
Sesame and Lilies (1906)
Half-vellum binding by Hatchards of John Ruskin's lectures
John Ruskin
George Allen, London, 1906
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Essays | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
