Recent Additions
The Quarrel of the Age (2000, signed first edition)
Signed by A C Grayling, his study of the life and times of William Hazlitt
A C Grayling
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Last Night I Dreamt I was a DJ / Anoche Sone Que Era un DJ
Dominican poet Frank Baez's bilingual collection of verse
Frank Baez, translated by P Scott Cunningham & Hoyt Rogers
Jai-Alai Books, Miami, FL, 2014
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon, October 2009
including verse from Tracey Emin, James Fenton, Alasdair Gray et al
Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator
Koenig Books, London, 2009
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook (1966, first edition)
Michael Jaffé's scholarly but controversial discovery of the young Van Dyck's sketchbook at Chatsworth, this copy in the publisher's original cardboard housing
Michael Jaffé
MacDonald & Co, London, 1966
£120.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Amateur Cook (1905, first edition)
Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, her first commission
Katharine Burrill, and Annie M Booth, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell
W & R Chambers, London, 1905
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Helmut Newton: Polaroids (2011, first edition)
Profusely illustrated with the photographer's test shots
Helmut Newton
Taschen, Koln, 2011
£20.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Jacaranda Tree (1949, signed first edition)
Signed by H E Bates
H E Bates
Michael Joseph, London, 1949
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Man in Art (1892, first edition)
Philip Gilbert Hamerton's illustrated 'Studies in Religious and Historical Art, Portrait, and Genre'
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Macmillan, London, 1892
£80.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Histoire des Deux Derniers Rois de la Maison de Stuart (1809)
The first French edition of Charles James Fox's history of the late Stuart monarchy
Charles James Fox
Chez H Nicolle et al, Paris, 1809
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Original painting of a Tree Pipit
Framed and glazed, a very accomplished watercolour
G R Nash (?), artist name indecipherable
Not Published, 1986
£20.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Original painting of a Purple Heron
Framed and glazed, a very accomplished watercolour
G R Nash (?), artist name indecipherable
Not Published, 1986
£25.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Original painting of a European Green Woodpecker
Framed and glazed, a very accomplished watercolour
G R Nash (?), artist name indecipherable
Not Published, 1986
£25.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Mémoires et Melanges Historiques et Littéraires (1827–1829)
Four volume first edition of De Ligne's memoirs and writings
Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne
Ambroise Dupont et Cie, Paris, 1827
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
A Thousand Mornings, Poems (2012, a rare advance uncorrected proof copy)
Mary Oliver's poems of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Mary Oliver
The Penguin Press, New York, 2012
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Compendium of Seashells
Abbott & Dance's superb guide to over 4,200 of the world shells
R Tucker Abbott, and S Peter Dance
Odyssey Publishing, El Cajon, CA., 2000
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Dictionnaire d’Anecdotes (1773, two volumes in one)
Full leather, de Prezel's collection of anecdotes and bon-mots etc
Honoré Lacombe de Prézel
Chez La Combe, Paris, 1773
£40.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Red Bush / Studio Window by David Holt (2006)
An original oil on canvas. two cloaked figures embracing
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2006
£60.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Christopher Wool: You Make Me (1998, first edition)
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
Ann Goldstein
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Memoirs of Painting (1824, first edition)
William Buchanan's record of the art market in the early nineteenth century
William Buchanan
R Ackermann, London, 1824
£80.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Awst & Walther (2019, first edition)
An illustrated monograph on the German-Welsh artist couple Awst & Walther
Manon Awst, and Benjamin Walther
Distanz, Berlin, 2019
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Space Between Here and There (2018, first edition)
The first monograph on the work of Ariel Reichman
Ariel Reichman
Distanz, Berlin, 2018
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
La Lumiere, Ses Causes et Ses Effets. Tome Premier: Sources de Lumiere
1867, volume 1 only. A reference copy without boards or spine
M Edmond Becquerel
Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1867
£20.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
My Dancing White Horses (1965)
Second printing of the autobiography of Alois Podhajsky of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna
Alois Podhajsky, translated by Frances Hogarth-Gaute
George G. Harrap, London, 1965
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Wiltshire Childhood (1929, first edition)
A reading copy of Ida Gandy's memoir
Ida Gandy, illustrated by Marjorie Whittington
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1929
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Gentle Art of Cookery, with 750 Recipes (1929)
A fair copy only but perfectly usable
C F Leyel, and Olga Hartley
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929
£10.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First thus
