Recent Additions
W Harrison Ainsworth, signed & handwritten envelope 1961
Sent to British journalist Cyrus Redding
W Harrison Ainsworth
Not Published, 1862
£50.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Louis-Philippe I, King of the French autograph
A clear handwritten signature, c1830
Louis-Philippe I King of the French
Not Published, 1830
£60.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Little Wives (1890)
Louisa M Alcott's sequel to Little Women, published in Warne's Star Series
Louisa May Alcott
Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1890
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Paul Doherty—two signed Medieval crime mystery first editions
The Straw Men (Brother Athelstan), and The Mindnight Man
Paul Doherty
Crème de la Crime, Sutton, 2021
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fifth Miracle (1998, signed first edition)
Signed by Paul Davies, "The search for the origin of life"
Paul Davies
Allen Lane, London, 1998
£40.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
One Hundred Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (1947)
In an attractive Barnett Freedman binding
John Rothenstein, binding design by Barnett Freedman
Tate Gallery, London, 1947
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Family of Tufnell (1924, first edition)
A privately printed family history from Elizabethan times, and including the family's Great War service
E Bertha Tufnell
Privately printed, 1924
£40.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Henry VIII (Signed deluxe edition)
Signed by Jasper Ridley
Jasper Ridley
Guild Publishing, London, 1985
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Fine Bindings
That Imaginative Don Quijote de la Mancha (2nd ed, 1914)
A fairly rare early copy of Robinson Smith's translation of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Robinson Smith
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1914
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866, first edition)
A reading copy only, with nine engraved plates
James Ballantine
Adam and Charles Black, London, 1866
£70.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Girls Who Lie (Signed first edition)
Signed by Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, limited to 500 copies
Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb
Orenda Books, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Horror in Architecture (2013, first edition)
A study of how architectural anomalies, "monstrosities," and grotesque forms challenge conventional design norms
Joshua Comaroff, and Ong Ker-shing
Oro Editions, Novato, CA, 2013
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
Ars Chirurgica, A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Chirurgery
1699, the second edition of William Salmon's book of surgery containing the first three sections and 12 plates
William Salmon
J Dawks, London, 1699
£275.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Acid Casuals, and Jello Salad (1997, signed copies)
Two neo-noir thrillers signed by Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe
Serpent's Tail, London, 1997
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Mixed Editions
L'Ame du Vin (1932, first edition)
French author Constantin-Weyer's lyrical celebration of wine
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Rieder Editeur, Paris, 1932
£15.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
Studio International Art, six bound copies January-June 1963
including Sean Kenny, L S Lowry, Keith Vauughan, Abram Games and many more
G S Whittet, editor
Longacre Press, London, 1963
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Modern Music, January-February 1944, Volume XXI, Number 2
with pieces by Paul Bowles, Serge Prokofiev, and Albert Frankenstein
Minna Lederman, editor
The League of Composers, New York, 1944
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Saturday Book 17, signed by Selma van de Perre
This copy owned by Selma van de Perre, WW2 Dutch resistance worker and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
John Hadfield
Hutchinson, London, 1957
£50.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, first edition, in a unique leather binding)
With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Dizionario Italiano-Inglese e Inglese-Italiano (1867)
Quarter vellum, published in Florence
J P Roberts
G Barbera, Florence, 1867
£20.00
Language | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
The Ghoul (1934)
Frank King's classic Mummy horror
Frank King
Readers Library, London, 1934
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1948, limited edition)
This copy in a unique leather Surrealist binding
Salvador Dali, translated by Haakon M Chevalier
Vision, London, 1948
£200.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound
Les Bas-fonds de Constantinople (1892, first edition)
Paul de Regla expose of the underworld of Constantinople
Paul de Regla
Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1892
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
En Route (1895, 10th edition)
The second of J-K Huysmans' Durtal novels
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1895
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Arabian Adventure (1979, first edition)
Kieth Miles' novelisation of the film of the same name
Keith Miles, after a screenplay by Brian Hayles
Mirror Books, London, 1979
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
