Recent Additions

A report from the National Union of Miners (Kent Area) 1971

The Workers' Educational Association, Rochester, 1971

c1923, with eight colour plates by W H Walker

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1923

A Great War play, inscribed by the author Harold Owen, written to "smash Pacifism"

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1918

1938, an unusual Spanish Civil War item, recording the saving of Spain's cultural heritage

Spanish State Tourist Department, Barcelona, 1938

Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman

Victor Gollancz, London, 1982

Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry

S J Looker, Clapton, 1920

1976, Tolkien's illustrated letters to his children from Father Christmas

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1976

A superb selection of the uncanny, the eerie, and the haunted...

The British Library, London, 2018

1915, with delightfully illustrated stories for children

Blackie & Son, London, 1915

1936, an illustrated study of the famine in the Soviet Union

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936

and the Impact of 1066

A Colonnade Book / British Museum, London, 1984

1968, two volumes: biography, critical commentary, catalogue raisonne, and plates

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1968

Early 20th century, Boutet de Monvel's illustrated story of Joan of Arc

E Plon, Nourrit & Cie, Paris, 1920

c1858, a cautionary tale from Clara de Chatelain, with 12 hand-coloured illustrations

William Engelmann, Leipzig, 1858

1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War

Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969

A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka

Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987

1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism

International Publishers, New York, 1949

A second printing of G Bernard Shaw's treatise, published as Fabian Tract No 45

The Fabian Society, London, 1895

A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz

Longmans, London, 1960

A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

Pluto Press, London, 1979

Constantine Tsoucalas's assessment of the Greek political situation (1969)

Penguin Books, London, 1969

An uncommon title dealing with children and their foster families

William Heinemann, London, 1980

1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs

George G. Harrap, London, 1931

1946, Britain in Pictures No 102

Collins, London, 1946