Recent Additions

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

A large original oil on canvas in a bespoke frame

Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2003

An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936

A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance

Hutchinson, London, 1959

A large original oil painting inspired by the customs of the Pueblo Indians

Original Artwork, New Mexico, 1959

A selection from nine modern Chinese poets

Routledge, London, 1947

"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film

Convoy Publications, London, 1949

1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire

Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930

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

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960

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

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

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

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

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

Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat

Editions Athena, Paris, 1954