Recent Additions
Overgrown Greenhouse by David Holt (2005)
A wonderful large original oil painting in bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2005
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Decembrists (Dekabristite)
A Bulgarian history of the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 in Imperial Russia
Brigita Yosifova
Publishing House of the Fatherland Front, Sofia, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Songs of Innocence
A 1906 edition of a selection of Blake's verse with four colour illustrations by Olive Allen
William Blake, illustrated by Olive Allen
T C & E C Jack, London, 1906
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Virginia of the Rhodesians
c1930, a reprint of Cynthia Stockley's first novel
Cynthia Stockley
Hutchinson, London, 1930
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Significant Message of Georges Mathieu (1952)
The book for Mathieu's first solo US exhibition and an important development in the Art Informel movement
Michel Tapié, and Georges Mathieu
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, 1952
£50.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Three early 20th Century Luigi Prandello Plays
1924/1925, Il Piacere dell'Onestà; Pensaci, Giacomino!; and La Vita che ti Diedi
Luigi Pirandello
Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze (Florence), 1924
£15.00
Drama | Soft Cover
An Essay on the Philosophy of Self-Consciousness
1882, a rare first edition from philosopher Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald
Penelope Frederica (as P F) Fitzgerald
Printed for the Author by Trubner & Co, London, 1882
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Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Book of Humans (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2018
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Grave Expectations (Signed first edition)
Signed & dedicated by Alice Bell at Comic Con 2023
Alice Bell
Corvus, London, 2023
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
On the Party (1951, third edition; signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by artist Geri Morgan (1926–2010)
Liu Shao-Chi
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1951
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
The Law of Political Uniforms, Public Meetings and Private Armies
Joseph Baker's 1937 book hot on the heels of the Public Order Act 1936 and the British Union of Fascists
Joseph Baker
H A Just & Co, London, 1937
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Zebra: Loose Leaf Painting 4 by David Holt (1990)
A light, original semi-abstract painting in a bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1990
£50.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Women in Focus; Contemporary Irish Women's Lives (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by both authors, Pat Murphy and Nell McCafferty
Pat Murphy, and Nell McCafferty
Attic Press, Dublin, 1986
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Hsi-yu Chi (1970, first edition)
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Leather Bound
Rockchange : Castlerigg by David Holt (1996)
An original atmospheric oil study of the Neolithic stone circle near Keswick, Cumbria
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1996
£180.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
Contes Populaires Berberes, Recuillis, Traduits et Annotes
The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers
Rene Basset
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Three books of French poetry by Francis Jammes
La Vierge et les Sonnets, De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir, and Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent...
Francis Jammes
Various, Paris, 1919
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Grounds for Divorce in Hindu and English Law (Signed copy)
Inscribed by the author for E P Skone-James
P K Virdi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1972
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Art of Public Speaking
c1923, with tips on electioneering etc
Lucy D Bell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover
The Right to Strike
A rare 1921 novel of industrial action and its consequences
Ernest Hutchinson, and Geo. Goodchild
Robert Hayes, London, 1921
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Signed by the translator, Paul Selver)
1923, the second UK printing of Karel Capek's play that gave us the word "robot"
Karel Capek, translated from the Czech by Paul Selver and adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1923
£120.00
Drama | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
121st High Priest of the Samaritans (Signed postcard, 1920s)
Signed by Yitzhaq II ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia
Not stated
Not stated, n.d.
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
