Recent Additions
Oeuvres de Emile Verhaeren (in four volumes)
1923–24, including Les Campagnes Hallucinees and Les Villes Tentaculaires
Emile Verhaeren
Mercure de France, Paris, 1923
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
A Room with a View
1909, a lovely copy of the second impression of E M Forster's third novel
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1909
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Where Time Winds Blow
1981, a first edition of Robert Holdstock's SF thriller
Robert Holdstock
Faber & Faber, London, 1981
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
James Herbert: By Horror Haunted
1992, a review of the horror writer's life and works
Stephen Jones, editor
New English Library, London, 1992
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Lost Witch (Signed first edition)
Signed by Melvin Burgess to a publisher's bookplate
Melvin Burgess
Andersen Press, London, 2018
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
English Historic Carpentry
and English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry, two authoritative books by Cecil A Hewett
Cecil A Hewett
Phillimore & Co, Chicester, 1980
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Beginnings of Poetry
1908, an early edition of Gummere's study of evolution of poetry as a social institution
Francis B Gummere
Macmillan, New York, 1908
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover
These Are the Times
2005, Trevor Griffiths' script for the Life of Thomas Paine
Trevor Griffiths
Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 2005
£12.00
Drama | Soft Cover | First Editions
Perissa (Signed copy)
Signed by S P B Mais with a lengthy dedication (1924)
S P B Mais
Grant Richards, London, 1924
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Shropshire (Signed copy)
Signed by Ellis Peters and Roy Morgan
Ellis Peters, and Roy Morgan
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1992
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
John Galsworthy, signed framed photograph
Signed in 1927, taken by Elliott and Fry
John Galsworthy
Elliott & Fry, London, 1927
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed
Drawings of British Plants, Parts 7–9
Three parts of Stella Ross-Craig's illustrated guides, in a fine half-leather binding
Stella Ross-Craig
George Bell & Sons, London, 1954
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Drawings of British Plants, Parts 4–6
The second three parts of Stella Ross-Craig's illustrated guides, in a fine half-leather binding
Stella Ross-Craig
George Bell & Sons, London, 1950
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Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Drawings of British Plants, Parts 1–3
The first three parts of Stella Ross-Craig's illustrated guides, in a fine half-leather binding
Stella Ross-Craig, with a Foreword by Sir Edward Salisbury
George Bell & Sons, London, 1948
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated
WW2 Buckingham Palace letter of condolence
Lt.-Cdr. Henry Thomas Robert Bonham, wounded at Narvik on HMS Fleetwood in 1940
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, London, 1940
£20.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
The Intelligentsia of Great Britain
1935, the first UK edition of Dmitri Mirsky's critical assessment
Dmitri Mirsky, translated by Alec Brown
Victor Gollancz, London, 1935
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Tribute to President Kennedy (1963)
Poet John Alfriston's verse in honour of JFK
John Alfriston, as A Humble English Poet
John Alfriston, London, 1963
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
England Observed, John Gay (1909–1999)
First edition, a superb collection of John Gay's photographs
John Gay, [Hans Gohler], essay Andrew Sargent; memoir by Gundrun Zufall; foreword by Ralph Beyer
English Heritage, Swindon, 2009
£30.00
Photography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1912 pocket edition, with John Tenniel's illustrations
Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel
Macmillan, London, 1912
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
They Die Like Cattle by David Holt (1997)
A huge original oil painting, inspired by the Great War cemeteries of the Somme and Wilfred Owen's poem
David Holt
Original Artwork, Kent, 1997
£300.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Lion Rugs; The Lion in the Art and Culture of Iran
Their symbology and structure, profusely illustrated
Parviz Tanavoli
Wepf & Co, Basel, 1985
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Poets in Picardy and Other Poems
1919, first edition, Great War poetry
Edward Adolphe Sinauer De Stein
John Murray, London, 1919
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Letters of Rupert Brooke
1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Masks of Time, A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative
1925, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's verse, including some war poetry
Edmund Blunden, decorations and initial letters by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1925
£32.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Roman Drain by David Holt (1982)
Original abstract oil painting, Kentish apple crates and Roman remains
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1982
£100.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
