Recent Additions
The Obscene Bird of the Night
Jose Donoso's visionary masterpiece
Jose Donoso, translated by Hardie St Martin & Leonard Mades
Verba Mundi / David R Godine, Boston, 2013
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
The Secret Sayings of Jesus Explained
1971, an examination of the Gospel of Thomas
A Western Mystic
Shiva Publications, Aberdeen, 1971
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Willem de Kooning: Paintings
The book for the 1994 National Gallery of Art exhibition in Washington
David Sylvester, and Richard Shiff (essays), Maria Prather (catalogue)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
James Gillray, The Art of Caricature
2001, the illustrated book of the 2001 Tate Gallery exhibition
Richard T Godfrey, with an essay by Mark Hallett
Tate Gallery, London, 2001
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Vagabond (Signed copy)
Signed by A P Wolf, aka Paul Webb, the author's first novel
A P Wolf, pseudonym of Paul Webb
Fourth Estate, London, 1991
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Slipcase
How are Verses Made?
A 1970 printing of Mayakovsky's classic 1926 critical text
Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated from the Russian by G M Hyde
Jonathan Cape, London, 1970
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
More Father Potter of Peckham
1958, a second volume of autobiography from the south east London friar
The Rev. Canon George Potter, illustrated by Mike
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Women's Mysteries, Ancient and Modern
Esther Harding's study of the feminine principle in myths, dreams, and religious symbolism
M Esther Harding
Rider & Company, London, 1971
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Stanley Anderson: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné
A well-illustrated study of the engraver, etcher and artist
Robert Meyrick, and Harry Heuser
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2015
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Missel Romain
Full leather with beautifully illuminated pages
Not stated
J Depelley, Limoges, 1910
£25.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
La Retraite Sentimentale
1914 edition of Colette's first sole authorship novel
Colette
Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1914
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Through Siberia, The Land of the Future
1914, first UK edition of Fridtjof Nansen's travels through Russia
Fridtjof Nansen, translated by Arthur G Chater
William Heinemann, London, 1914
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
What We All Wear
The Raw Materials of Clothing (1968)
Owen Webster
George G. Harrap, London, 1968
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Beginners, Please!
1953, Kay Ambrose's concentrated primer for ballet lovers of all ages
Kay Ambrose, in collaboration with Celia Franca
A & C Black, London, 1953
£15.00
Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Book of Common Prayer
1830, this copy from Colonel John Bell's pew in St George's Church, Cape Town
Common Prayer
George Eyre & Andrew Strahan, London, 1830
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Association Copy
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
2020, the Royal Collector's edition
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Royal Classics, Vancouver, 2020
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Peace and Roses, Stories
1965, short stories from Bulgarian writer, Brigita Yosifova
Brigita Yosifova
Bulgarian Writer, Sofia, 1965
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The "Green Pelican" and other stories
Seven charming stories by Robert Tredinnick, aka Uncle Robert
Robert Tredinnick, illustrated by John Read
Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1944
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Wanderings by the Loire
1833, with twenty-one engravings by J M W Turner
Leitch Ritchie, with engravings after drawings by J M W Turner
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, London, 1833
£45.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
A Mainsail Haul
John Masefield's tales of sea faring and legends
John Masefield, frontispiece by Jack B Yeats
Elkin Mathews, London, 1913
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Aspects of the Novel
1928, third impression of E M Forster's lectures
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1928
£10.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
On the Art of the Cinema
Kim Jong II's treatise on North Korean film-making
Kim Jong II
University Press of the Pacific, Honolulu, 2001
£15.00
Film & Theatre | Soft Cover
Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
First printing of the forst volume of Yvonne Kapp's monumental biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sir Thomas Beecham, A Centenety Tribute (Signed copy)
Signed by Lady Shirley Beecham
Alan Jefferson, foreword by Sir Robert Mayer
World Records, London, 1979
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Cloistered War (Signed copy)
Signed by Maisie Duncan, "Surviving Japanese Occupation in Malaya"
Maisie Duncan
Printed for the Author, Helensvale, Queensland, 2002
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
