Recent Additions
RMS Aquitania: Original Pencil Plans/Sketches Attributed to Arthur J. Davis
With two original freehand pencil plans/sketches executed on the endpapers of Kipling’s Life’s Handicap (1913)
Rudyard Kipling, with the bookplate of architect Arthur J Davis
Macmillan, London, 1913
£300.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Original Artwork | Bookplate
Reel to Real, A Life in Film (Signed first edition)
Signed by Noel Cronin
Noel Cronin
Talking Pictures TV, 2021
£20.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Winter Solstice (Signed first edition)
Signed by Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2000
£27.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Nabokov Russian Translation
An unabridged republication of the 1923 first edition
Lewis Carroll, translated by "V Sirin" (Vladimir Nabokov), drawings by S Zalshupin
Dover, New York, 1976
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First thus
Sunward by Yeoward (Signed limited edition)
The Story of Yeoward of Liverpool, the First 100 Years
Theodore W S Barry
Granta Editions, Cambridge, 1994
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Murder Game (Signed first edition)
Signed by Tom Hindle to the title page
Tom Hindle
Century, London, 2023
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Belle and Sebastian Illustrated Lyrics
The exclusive edition for sale on tour
Stuart Murdoch, illustrated by Pamela Tait
Volume, London, 2022
£18.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Reminiscences of Oxford
1907, the second edition of Rev W Tuckwell's Oxford memoirs
Rev. William Tuckwell
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1907
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover
War and Peace in the Space Age
1959, US officer James Gavin's warnings over the future of warfare
Lt.-Gen James Gavin, introduction by Lt.-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
War and Peace
1959, Leo Tolstoy's classic with the publisher's original bookmark of characters
Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by Aylmer Maude
Macmillan, London, 1959
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow
1934, pioneering conservationist F W Champion's description and photography of jungle animals
F W Champion
Chatto & Windus, London, 1934
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Lore of the Land
1982, first edition of John Seymour's classic of land husbandry
John Seymour, illustrated by Sally Seymour
Whittet Books, Weybridge, 1982
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg (Namibia)
Part IV Umuab and Karoab Gorges (Volume 2 only), with 10 large fold out plates
Harald Pager
Heinrich-Barth-Institut, Koln, 1998
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Missing Diplomats
1952, Cyril Connolly's title on Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
Cyril Connolly, with an introduction by Peter Quennell
The Queen Anne Press, London, 1952
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Scottish Parliament, Its Construction and Procedure 1603–1707.
This copy signed by Scottish journalist James Bone to Scottish composer Iain Hamilton
Charles Sandford Terry
James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1905
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Confessions of an Art Addict
1960, a first edition of Peggy Guggenheim's memoir
Peggy Guggenheim
Andre Deutsch, London, 1960
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Flower Grouping in English, Scotch and Irish Gardens
1907, with 56 colour plates
Margaret Waterfield
J M Dent, London, 1907
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Ibhayibhile
The Holy Bible in Xhosa
Holy Bible
Umbutho Webhayibhile Womzantsi-Afrika, Cape Town, 1997
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Beibele
The Holy Bible in Tswana language
Holy Bible
Lekgotla La Beibele La Afrika Borwa, Cape Town, 2001
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Die Bybel, Nuew Vertaling
The Bible in Afrikaans
Holy Bible
Bybelgenootskap, 2000
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Maandiko Matakatifu ya Mungu Yaitwayo Biblia
1989, The Holy Bible in Kiswahili (Swahili)
Holy Bible
Troy Books, Tanzania, 1989
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover
Hieroglyphic Landscape by David Holt (2004)
A loud, busy original oil painting, in a bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, 2004
£80.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The American Printer, Benjamin Franklin Bi-Centennial Edition 1923
Rebound in quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin
Various, cover design by George F Trenholm
Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923
£60.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Registers of Lydlinch, Dorset from 1559 to 1812
A transcription of parish records of births, deaths and marriages, and list of Rectors
Charles Herbert Mayo, and Francis George Henley (transcribers)
The Parish Register Society, London, 1899
£20.00
Genealogy & Family HIstory | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ancient Britain and the Invasion of Julius Casear (with signed correspondence)
1907, with handwritten letters from the author, T Rice Holmes
T Rice Holmes
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1907
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
