Recent Additions

featuring his famous 'Prehistoric Peeps'

Not Published, Wimbledon, 1904

A 1994 facsimile of S B Miles' 1920 two volume edition

Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1994

A list of the African head chiefs, and chiefs of towns and villages throughout the colony

The Native Affairs Office, Accra, 1941

In an attractive full leather Christ's Hospital prize binding, given in 1924

Christophers, London, 1923

Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...

The Rotary Press, London, 1926

This copy signed by racing enthusiast G H S Dixon

Michael Joseph, London, 1957

Fridtjof Nansen's attempted trek to the North Pole

George Newnes, London, 1898

Benjamin Samuel Williams's first book, 'containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants'

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

Cruises on the Ellesmere and Oxford Canals in pre-war England

Heath Cranton, London, 1921

A French study of Chinese civilization, with three engraved plates

Alfred Mame et Cie, Tours, 1854

in the original dustwrapper

Readers Library, London, 1928

Dated December 1902, and mentioning she is busy with panto and rehearsals

Not Published, London, 1902

E W Blackburn's study of the philology and etymology of words

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911

Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923

Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923

This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland

Penguin Books, London, 1971

1951, the third impression of Isherwood and Prabhavananda's translation

Phoenix House, London, 1951

Poems from minor Modernist poet B G Brooks, printed in Dijon by Maurice Darentierre

Privately printed, Dijon, 1927

An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence

Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898

From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series

Louis Conard, Paris, 1915

An early edition of H V Esmond's play

Samuel French Limited, London, 1900

1913, a pocket hardback edition of Christina Rossetti's verse

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1913

Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality

P S King & Son, London, 1915

The museum's illustrated book for its important Andy Warhol collection

Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovak Republic, 2010

Seven short stories by St John Lucas

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913

A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880