Recent Additions
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947–1964
First UK edition of the first instalment of Susan Sontag's diaries
Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Hamish Hamilton, London, 2009
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Power and the Glory
1965, Graham Greene's novel in a Peter Edwards dustwrapper
Graham Greene, dustwrapper by Peter Edwards
William Heinemann, London, 1965
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
A Bit of Blood (1959)
Twelve short stories by Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig
Seven Seas Books, Berlin, 1959
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
Official Invitation & Programme for the Shah of Iran's visit to Pakistan, 1950
Pakistan's first official visit after Independence from the country that was the first to recognise it's new status
Liaquat Ali Khan, and the Ministry of Defence of Pakistan
Government of Pakistan, Karachi, 1950
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | First Editions
An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Northamptonshire
four volumes: North-East, Central, North-West, and South West
Royal Commission on Historical
HMSO, London, 1975
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History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Original invitation from Liaquat Ali Khan, March 1951
A rare original document from Pakistan's history
Liaquat Ali Khan
Government of Pakistan, 1951
£40.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Original invitation from Khwaja Nazimuddin, February 1951
To a Garden Party at the Governor-General's House in Karachi
Khwaja Nazimuddin
Government of Pakistan, Karachi, 1951
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
1942 RAF WW2 printed letter on Careless Talk
Sir Charles Portal's warning to his newly commissioned officers...
Sir Charles Portal
Royal Air Force, London, 1942
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Original 1959 signed Official Secrets Act (RAF)
Signed by Squadron Leader P L Kelly of No. 35 Maintenance Unit prior to retirement
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force, 1959
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Original 1962 Cavern Club membership card
The year The Beatles took the Beat scene by storm and were signed to Brian Epstein
The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club, Liverpool, 1962
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Ephemera | Soft Cover
The Devil's Own Work (Signed first edition)
Signed by Alan Judd
Alan Judd
HarperCollins, London, 1991
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Gwelf, The Survival Guide (Signed first edition)
Signed by Larry MacDougall
Larry MacDougall
Eye of Newt Books, Toronto, 2021
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Defence of London 1915–1918
1924, third edition of Rawlinson's account of the Zeppelin and Gotha raids on London
Augustus Rawlinson, with an introduction by Admiral Sir Percy Scott
Andrew Melrose, London, 1924
£22.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Old Christmas from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
1878, third edition, in a decorative gilt binding
Washington Irving, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott
Macmillan, London, 1878
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Shenandoah Valley Campaign 1861–1862
A Study of the Strategy and Tactics of the Campaign, with Six Maps. Illustrating the Principles of War, Battles Described
Alexander Kearsey
Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1952
£15.00
Military & War | Soft Cover
The English Counties Delineated (1837 first edition)
Thomas Moule's topographical guide to the counties in two volumes, with 62 maps and engravings
Thomas Moule
George Virtue, London, 1837
£200.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Samphire Hoe by Maggie Holt (1997)
A superb watercolour of the Dover country park
Maggie Holt
Original Artwork, Kent, 1997
£65.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Chalk Quarry by David Holt (1982)
A large original oil painting in the style of the British Neo-Romantic tradition
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1982
£180.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
A Season in Hell (Signed first edition)
1989, signed by Jack Higgins to a photographic bookplate
Jack Higgins
Collins, London, 1989
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Round the Rugged Rocks (1951, first edition)
Actor David Niven's first novel
David Niven
The Cresset Press, London, 1951
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys (1890)
Complete in four volumes, with Braybrooke's notes
Samuel Pepys, with Life and Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1890
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover
The Kill (1982)
Some classic horror from the Catskill Mountains...
Alan Ryan
Tor / Tom Doherty, New York, 1982
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
London Survivals (1914, first edition)
A Record of the Old Buildings and Associations of the City
P H Ditchfield, illustrated by E L Wratten
Methuen, London, 1914
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Traditional Recipes of the Provinces of France
The first English language edition of Curnonsky's regional French cookery book
Curnonsky, edited and translated by Edwin Lavin
Les Productions de Paris, Paris, 1961
£25.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
A Palace for the Buckinghams (1963, first edition)
Malcolm Saville's fourth Buckingham novel
Malcolm Saville
Evans Brothers, London, 1963
£22.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
