Recent Additions
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1968)
Second UK printing of Joe Millard's novelisation of the classic Spaghetti Western
Joe Millard, with another title by Brian Fox included
Tandem, London, 1968
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Conquered (1927)
Naomi Mitchison's first book, a tale of the Roman defeat of Gaul
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Cloud Cuckoo Land (1926, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's novel of the Peloponnesian War and the eclipse of Athens
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1926
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
When the Bough Breaks (1924, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's short stories of the Roman Empire
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1924
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927, first edition)
Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto & Windus, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Walter Pater, four first printings in the pocket edition
Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations
Walter Pater
Macmillan, London, 1924
£25.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Jungle Book (1924) & The Second Jungle Book (1923)
Two very decent reprinted editions of Kipling's classic tales
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J Lockwood Kipling & W H Drake
Macmillan, London, 1924
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Anna Livia Plurabelle (1932)
James Joyce's short work that would be part of Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Faber & Faber, London, 1932
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
The Life and Teaching of Jesus the Christ (1923, first edition)
This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board
Rt Rev Arthur Cayley Headlam
John Murray, London, 1923
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
En Campagne 1914–1915, Impressions d'un Officier de Legere (1918)
Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students
Marcel Dupont, edited by G-C Bosset
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Oxford Book of French Verse, XIIIth century—XIIXth century
1920, first edition bound in full leather
St John Lucas
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Yellow Painted Pylon by David Holt (1995)
A semi-abstract painting of the late evening summer sun catching pylons
David Holt
Original Artwork, Stelling Minnis, 1995
£80.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1920)
A very good copy with Christ's Hospital crest in gilt
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1920
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
L'Atlantide
1924, a nicely bound copy of Pierre Benoit's 1919 classic French lost-world novel
Pierre Benoit
Albin Michel, Paris, 1924
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Window Blind and Gate by David Holt (2003)
A large original oil on canvas in a bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2003
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
A Gilbert and Sullivan Dictionary (1936, first edition)
An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
George E Dunn
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Defence of the Earth (1959, first edition)
A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance
Kenneth Rexroth
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Flayed Deer : New Mexico : USA (1959)
A large original oil painting inspired by the customs of the Pueblo Indians
David Holt
Original Artwork, New Mexico, 1959
£150.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1947, first edition)
A selection from nine modern Chinese poets
Robert Payne, editor and introduction
Routledge, London, 1947
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Bad Lord Byron (1949, first edition)
"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film
Sydney Box, and Vivian Cox, introduction by Dennis Price
Convoy Publications, London, 1949
£40.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Armand Rassenfosse, 30 colour plates for Les Fleurs du Mal
1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire
Armand Rassenfosse
Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930
£180.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Parish Law (1750, seventh edition)
Joseph Shaw's "Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and All Others Concerned with Parish Business"
Joseph Shaw
H Lintot et al, London, 1750
£95.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Necroscope & Necroscope II: Wamphyri! (Signed by Brian Lumley)
First paperback editions of the first two books in the Necroscope series
Brian Lumley
Grafton Publishing, London, 1986
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Farmer Giles of Ham (1971)
The eighth impression of Tolkien's comic medieval fable
J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
