Recent Additions
The Human Form in Art (1926, first edition)
Illustrated with over 150 images of the human form in photography, sketches etc
Adolphe Armand Braun, editor
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Vampire of Vourla (1845)
First printing of a rare early vampire story in The Chaplet
Not stated
J Harwood, London, 1845
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Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Food, Wine & Friends (1980, signed first edition)
Signed and dedicated by Robert Carrier.
Robert Carrier
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1980
£25.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
American Impressionism
The 2001 revised and expanded second edition of William H Gerdts' panoramic survey of American Impressionism
William H Gerdts
Abbeville Press, New York, 2001
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
A Garden Flora: Trees and Flowers Grown in the Gardens at Nymans
A Sussex garden inventory of Ludwig Messel's planting, with notes by his daughter Muriel
Muriel Messel, illustrated by Alfred Parsons, foreword by William Robinson, and notes by Muriel Messel
Country Life, London, 1918
£40.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
John Heartfield, Fotomonteur—36 postcards
Reproduced by Berlin's Elefanten Press, in original box
John Heartfield
Elefanten Press, Berlin, 1980
£40.00
Art | Soft Cover | Illustrated
The Chelsea Arts Ball and Bystander Coming of Age Celebrations 1924
A rare original 1924 souvenir programme from the Roaring Twenties
Chealsea Arts Club / Bystander, illustrated by Edmund Blampied, W Heath Robinson et al
The Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1924
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank (1840, first edition)
An early work by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray, but published anonymously
Henry Hooper, London, 1840
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Jamaica: On the Tracks of James Bond
2025, a first edition hardback of Simon Firth's fifth 007 book
Simon Firth, foreword by Hon. Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, afterword by Gloria Hendry (Rosie Carver), edited and designed by Martijn Mulder. Cover art by Jeffrey Marshall
DMD Digital, 2025
£30.00
Film, Theatre, Dance & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Age of Scandal and The Scandal Monger (first editions)
T H White's duels, mistresses, public executions, royal gossip etc
T H White
Jonathan Cape, London, 1950
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Giambologna, The Complete Sculpture
A comprehensive illustrated study of the 16th century Italian sculptor
Charles Avery, principal photographs by David Finn
Phaidon, London, 1993
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
From the Shoulder, Sixteen Rounds with the Gloves Off (1935)
A Scottish minister's advice to older boys to stop thinking about *that* etc
Herbert Reid, MC
Church of Scotland & Boy Scouts, Edinburgh, 1935
£20.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Point of Inconvenience (Signed first edition, 2013)
Signed by by A F Harrold to Greta Bellamacina and Robert Montgomery
A F Harrold
Two Rivers Press, Reading, 2013
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Cedric Morris (1984, first edition)
The illustrated exhibition book for the Tate Gallery's retrospective
Richard Morphet
Tate Gallery, London, 1984
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
So, Anyway... (Signed first edition)
Signed by John Cleese
John Cleese
Random House, London, 2014
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fair Shares for All, Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice (Signed)
With a postcard signed by the author
Jean-Pierre Gross
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Only the Unexpected Happens (1985, signed limited edition)
Signed by Phyllis Pearsall, seven short stories from the creator of the London A-Z Atlas
Phyllis Pearsall, frontispiece by James McBey
The Stourton Press, Hackney, London, 1985
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings
From Bedsitter to Household Name (1990, signed first edition)
Signed by Phyllis Pearsall, the creator of the A-Z London atlas
Phyllis Pearsall
Geographer's A-Z Map Company, Sevenoaks, 1990
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Hungarian Ethnography and Folklore
A thorough guide to the customs, history and manners of the Hungarians
Ivan Balassa, and Gyula Ortutay, translated by Maria and Kenneth Bales
Corvina Kiado, Budapest, 1984
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Flight (Memorial to Hubert Latham) by David Holt (1998)
A large original oil painting of Latham spectral aeroplane
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1998
£250.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Tales of the British Aristocracy (1956, first edition)
L G Pine's wry look at British noble families...
L G Pine
Burke, London, 1956
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Long Revolution (1961, first edition)
Raymond Williams's companion to Culture and Society.
Raymond Williams
Chatto & Windus, London, 1961
£20.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Quo Vadis (1901)
An early edition of Henryk Sienkiewitz's novel set in the time of Nero
Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by Dr S A Binion and S Malevsky
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1901
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Stories of the Italian Artists from Vasari (1885, first edition)
with sixteen illustrations, some in gilt and colour
Emma Louisa Seeley, but published anonymously
Seeley & Co, London, 1885
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Bric-a-Brac Hunter (1875, first edition)
or, Chapters on Chinamania, in a superb gilt binding
Major Herbert Byng Hall
Chatto & Windus, London, 1875
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
