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The King's Regulations for the Army and the Royal Army Reserve 1940
1941 edition, with bound in and handwritten updates
War Office
HMSO, London, 1941
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover

13 Years of Anti-Fascist Struggle
1943, a record of The Daily Worker's cartoon, articles, and headlines
William Rust, introduction, with articles by Harry Pollitt and J B S Haldane
The Daily Worker, London, 1943
£40.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

New Tree (1997) by David Holt
Original semi-abstract oil painting in bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1997
£70.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

Quiet Voyage (1989) by David Holt
A wonderful original semi-abstract oil painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1989
£80.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

Pyramids and Blue C's (1984) by David Holt
Original abstract expressionist painting, oil on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1984
£60.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

My Corner of the Field (Signed copy)
Signed by Edward Wesson, the artist's illustrated autobiography
Edward Wesson, foreword by Rowland Hilder
Burleigh Press, Bristol, 1982
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Signed postcard)
A signed & handwritten postcard dated 1899. The first woman to qualify as a doctor in 1865
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Not Published, London, 1899
£100.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten

Parkett No 81
A contemporary art journal featuring Ai Weiwei, Cosima von Bonin, and Christian Jankowski
Bice Curiger, editor
Parkett, Zurich, 2007
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Hundreds of Things a Girl Can Make
1934, first edition, A Hobby Book for Girls of All Ages...
Not stated
W Foulsham & Co Ltd, London, 1934
£20.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

English Canals
1970, the first combined edition of D D Gladwin & J M White's study
D D Gladwin, and J M White
The Oakwood Press, Lingfield, 1970
£15.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Hedgelaying Explained
A comprehensive guide to method and regional styles
Valerie Greaves
National Hedgelaying Society, 2002
£15.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | Illustrated

Ugly's Angels; The Ugly Model Book 1979/80
184 pages of models and actors with "interesting faces"
Ugly Enterprises Ltd
Ugly Enterprises Ltd, London, 1979
Sold
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Hillsigns by David Holt (1966)
A superb large original abstract expressionist painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, 1966
£130.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him
Isa Bowman's account of C L Dodwidge, with a new introduction by Morton N Cohen
Isa Bowman, with an introduction by Morton N Cohen
Dover, New York, 1976
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First thus

Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles
A facsimile edition of the the first French translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, translated by Henri Bue, with an introduction by Morton Cohen, illustrated by John Tenniel
Dover, New York, 1972
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First thus

Lewis Carroll, une vie, une legende
The first French edition of Morton Cohen's monumental biography of Lewis Carroll
Morton N Cohen, translated from the English by Laurent Bury
Editions Autrement, Paris, 1998
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Letters of Lewis Carroll
1979, two volumes, first edition. This set from Morton Cohen's own collection, with correspondence
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Macmillan, London, 1979
£50.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Rasul Gamzatov, Selected Poems
1974, translated by Peter Tempest, and with a copy of Tempest's First Poems (1957)
Rasul Gamzatov, translated by Peter Tempest, translated from the Avar into Russia by Naum Grebnev and Yakov Kozlovsky
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Island of California
A History of the Myth. The hardback first US edition.
Dora Beale Polk
The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Gallipoli (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Hart to historian and anthologist Anne Powell
Peter Hart
Profile Books, London, 2013
£12.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

Sisters in Arms (Signed copy)
Signed by Nicola Tyrer. British Army Nurses of the Second World War tell their story
Nicola Tyrer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Spy, A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Half-leather bound, 1831, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper
J Fenimore Cooper
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1831
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

The Water Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas
Half-leather bound, 1834, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper
J Fenimore Cooper
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1834
£70.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus

Fifteen Rounds a Minute (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by J M Craster, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Great War, August to December 1914
J M Craster, edited from the diaries of Major 'MA' Jeffreys and Others
Macmillan, London, 1976
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Duncan Gray & Lewis Gordon from Oscar & Malvina
Meyer's arrangement for Harp and Piano, c1800. 5pp.
Philippe-Jacques Meyer, after William Reeve [1757–1815]
Robert Birchall, London, 1800
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover