Recent Additions
Shot at Dawn (with correspondence and newspaper clippings)
A study of the executions by British Army Act during the Great War, and correspondence concerning the campaign to grant pardons
Julian Putkowski, and Julian Sykes
Wharncliffe Publishing Limited, Barnsley, 1989
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
An album of 162 medal ribbons, British & Foreign, and 37 black & white photographs
Collected in 1939/40 by a member of the 82nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Ribbons ranging from mid-Victorian to the 1930s
Not stated, owned by Gnr A S Abrams, RA, and pieced together by Capt D W Warren
Not Published, United Kingdom, 1940
£180.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Handwritten
The Omnipresence of The Deity, A Poem
1828, fifth edition in the same year as the first edition of this popular religious poem
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Maunder, London, 1828
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Jim Braidy, The Story of Britain's Fireman
1943, illustrated with paintings by Fireman Artists
Stephen Spender, with William Sansom and James Gordon
Lindsay Drummond, London, 1943
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Worst Witch (Signed copy)
Signed by Jill Murphy, the first colour illustration edition (2014)
Jill Murphy
Puffin, London, 2014
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Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Theatrical Companion to Coward
A Pictorial Record of the Theatrical Works of Noel Coward (2000, 2nd ed)
Raymond Mander, and Joe Mitchenson, updated by Barry Day and Sheridan Morley, with an appreciation by Terence Rattigan
Oberon Books, London, 2000
£15.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
A Stranger in Venice
A limited edition of Max Beerbohm's essay on a visit to Venice in 1906
Max Beerbohm, frontispiece by Sir William Rothenstein
The Winged Lion, London, 1993
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Michael Ernest Sadler (Sir Michael Sadler, K.C.S.I.) 1861–1943
This copy with the pencil ownership signature of Lord Wolfenden (J F Wolfenden)
Michael Sadleir
Constable, London, 1949
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Reimagining Britain, Foundations for Hope (Signed copy)
Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur
Justin Welby
Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Pessach Haggadah, Service for the First Nights of Passover
1934, third edition, a scarce early printing of this edition, illustrated with music supplement
Dr Joseph Loewy, and Joseph Guens, from the original drafts of M Kunstadt
Shapiro, Vallentine & Co, London, 1934
£50.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Roll of Honour, Arbroath and District 1939–1945
with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties
Marion Angus, foreword
T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£22.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (Signed copy)
Signed by Kathryn Tucker Windham, Margaret Gillis Figh, and Jeffrey (Mrs Windham's resident ghost)
Kathryn Tucker Windham, and Margaret Gillis Figh, cover design & illustrations by Delores Eskins Atkins
The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, 1971
£35.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Post Office London Directory with County Suburbs for 1916
Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1916
£170.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Colour for Adventurous Gardeners (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd, edited by Erica Hunningher, photographs by Jonathan Buckley
BBC, London, 2001
£35.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Lloyd, his guide to perennials, bulbs, grasses and ferns
Christopher Lloyd
Cassell, London, 2000
£35.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Eight volumes of War Poetry and Criticism
including Edgell Rickword, John Silkin, Vernon Scannell
Various. Single poets and anthologies
Various, London etc, n.d.
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Seven volumes of Great War poetry
Including Robert W Service, Rupert Brooke and war-time anthologies
Various, including Robert W Service & Rupert Brooke
Various, London etc, n.d.
£28.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Great War poets: six books of criticism, biography etc
Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas & Robert Graves
Edward Thomas. Martin Seymour-Smith, Richard Percival Graves etc
Various, London & New York, n.d.
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Popular Customs, Sports, and Recollections of the South of Italy (1846)
bound with A Visit to the Western Coast of Norway (1848)
Charles MacFarlane, and Wilhelm Wittich
Charles Knight, London, 1846
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Gods of the North
Brian Branston's study of the mythology of the Vikings, Angels, Saxons and Jutes
Brian Branston
Thames and Hudson, London, 1955
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
An Englishman in New York
1949, Francis Marshall's illustrated record of a trip to New York
Francis Marshall
G.B. Publications, London, 1949
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Letter to a Sister
1931, the third in The Hogarth Letters series
Rosamond Lehmann, cover design by John Banting
The Hogarth Press, London, 1931
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Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
