Recent Additions

1923, "a complete guide to the fascinating game from China"

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923

This copy signed by Ida Cook, the romantic novelist who helped rescue 29 Jews from Nazi Germany

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984

Signed by Margaret Gowing, a lecture to the University of Oxford, 1975

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975

Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists

Bookmarks, London, 1999

1931, an important study of the rock-paintings in the Argentinian province of Cordoba

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1931

Cecil Stewart's pre-war journey through Greece and Italy to Constantinople

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1947

Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959

1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower

Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934

A thorough guide to the customs, history and manners of the Hungarians

Corvina Kiado, Budapest, 1984

First edition, with 31 engraved plates containing thousands of heraldic devices

Printed for the Author, Sunderland, 1830

Flying Training, Aviation Law & Meteorology, Air Navigation, The Aeroplane Technical, Radio Navigation & Instrument Flying, Human Factors & Pilot Performance, and Radiotelephony

Air Pilot Publishing, Cranfield, 2007

Three volumes in dustwrappers, Edward Step's guide to Britain's wild flowers, with over 300 colour illustrations

Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1941

Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904

1873, first edition, Samuel Plimsoll's campaign for seaworthy shipping

Virtue & Co, London, 1873

1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951

Merlin Press, London, 1968

1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life

Denis Archer, London, 1933

1926 hardback edition, with 16 fine colour plates by Warwick Goble

Macmillan, London, 1926

First edition, a history of the drink from its first distillation in Barbados

William Heinemann, London, 1983

The first UK printing of Vasily Grossman's immense novel

Harvill Secker, London, 2019

Signed by William Horwood, a first printing of his sequel to The Wind in the Willows

HarperCollins, London, 1993

Signed by French artist Benoit Jacques

Editions de l'Association, Paris, 2010

Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"

Orbis, London, 1979

The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1979

1874, a rare first edition with 109 hand-coloured plates by W H Fitch

Chapman & Hall, London, 1874

Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974