Recent Additions

Valour & Vision, Poems of the War 1914–18
2nd edition, a fine collection of Great War verse
Jacqueline Trotter, editor
Martin Hopkinson, London, 1923
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover

Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions

The White Chateau
A Great War drama, first broadcast on Armistice Night, 1925
Reginald Berkeley
Williams and Norgate, London, 1925
£12.00
Drama | Soft Cover | First Editions

Maxims of War
1905, taken from the writings of Wellington, Napoleon, Clausewitz etc
Maurice V Brett
Hugh Rees Ltd, London, 1905
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions

A Summer's Fancy
1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press
Edmund Blunden, decorations by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated

An Elegy and Other Poems
1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Anthology of War Poetry 1914–1918
Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War
Robert Nichols
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Tantivy Towers, A Light Opera in Three Acts (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert
A P Herbert
Methuen, London, 1931
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper

Douaumont, or the Return of the Soldier Ulysses
A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
Eberhard Wolfgang Moeller / Möller, translated by Graham and Tristan Rawson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1930
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Poems of Ivor Gurney 1890–1937
1973, a reissue of Blunden's 1954 edition, with a new bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Ivor Gurney, with an introduction by Edmund Blunden and a bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Chatto & Windus, London, 1973
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus

Poems of Love and War
Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book
John Barron Mays
James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions

Actor, Soldier, Poet
1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland
Robert Henderson-Bland, with an appreciation by General Sir Hubert Gough
Heath Cranton, London, 1939
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Wood and Garden (Inscribed copy)
Inscribed by Gertrude Jekyll to His Royal Highness Prince Constantin
Gertrude Jekyll
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1899
£225.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies

Shameful Harvest
1952, A G Street's novel of farming loosely based on the case of farmer George Walden
A G Street, dustwrapper by Edwin La Dell
Faber & Faber, London, 1952
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Beautiful World, Where Are You (Signed copy)
Signed by Sally Rooney, a first printing
Sally Rooney
Faber & Faber, London, 2021
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Letters of Lewis Carroll
1979, 2 volumes, Morton Cohen's own reference copies
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Macmillan, London, 1979
£30.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

The Bomber Command War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt to Bomber Command veteran Les King, DFM
Martin Middlebrook, and Chris Everitt
Viking, London, 1985
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Animal Farm, A Fairy Story
A 1971 printing from the Collected Edition of George Orwell
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

The Pedant in the Kitchen (Signed copy)
Signed by Julian Barnes, the first printing.
Julian Barnes
Atlantic Press, London, 2003
£25.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Month, May 1937. Vol CLXIX, No 837
including an article on Lithobolio, a New England Poltergeist of 1692
Joseph Keating, editor, with articles by Herbert Thurston, C C Martindale etc
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1937
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Soft Cover | First Editions

HMS Rodney
A rare signed 1932 engraving by Michael Ross, one of the Monuments Men in the Second World War
Michael Ross
Not stated, 1932
£60.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies

Brought Forward
1916, first edition, fifteen tales from R B Cunninghame Graham
R B Cunningham Graham
Duckworth & Co, London, 1916
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Genesis of Wuthering Heights (Signed copy)
Signed by Mary Visick
Mary Visick, introduction by Edmund Blunden
Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1958
£35.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Tooting Corner, A Book of Reminiscences
1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper
Eric Bligh
Secker & Warburg, London, 1946
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Gustav Holst, A Biography
Imogen Holst's biography of her husband
Imogen Holst, with a note by R Vaughan Williams
Oxford University Press, London, 1974
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper