Recent Additions

Great Bardfield / Petches Bridge original oil painting c1920
Framed and glazed, showing a painter and his dog
Gilbert Williams
Not Published, Great Bardfield, Essex, 1920
£200.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed

Richard Aldington, hand-signed photograph by Yevonde (1927)
Framed and glazed, signed "Yours truly, Richard"
Richard Aldington, photograph by Yevonde
Madame Yevonde, London, 1927
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Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed

The Psychology of Secrets (Signed first edition)
Signed by Andrew Gold, "My Adventures with Murderers, Cults, and Influencers"
Andrew Gold
Macmillan, London, 2024
£20.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Charmed Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Damian Collins, a life of Philip Sassoon
Damian Collins
Collins, London, 2016
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Shakespeare Pack
Robert Pennant Jones' guide to acting, imaging and learning Shakespeare, illustrated by actor Clive Francis
Robert Pennant Jones, illustrated by Clive Francis
Printed for the Author(s), 2007
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated

A Room with a View
1909, a lovely copy of the second impression of E M Forster's third novel
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1909
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Where Time Winds Blow
1981, a first edition of Robert Holdstock's SF thriller
Robert Holdstock
Faber & Faber, London, 1981
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

James Herbert: By Horror Haunted
1992, a review of the horror writer's life and works
Stephen Jones, editor
New English Library, London, 1992
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Lost Witch (Signed first edition)
Signed by Melvin Burgess to a publisher's bookplate
Melvin Burgess
Andersen Press, London, 2018
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

English Historic Carpentry
and English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry, two authoritative books by Cecil A Hewett
Cecil A Hewett
Phillimore & Co, Chicester, 1980
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Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

The Beginnings of Poetry
1908, an early edition of Gummere's study of evolution of poetry as a social institution
Francis B Gummere
Macmillan, New York, 1908
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover

These Are the Times
2005, Trevor Griffiths' script for the Life of Thomas Paine
Trevor Griffiths
Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 2005
£12.00
Drama | Soft Cover | First Editions

John Galsworthy, signed framed photograph
Signed in 1927, taken by Elliott and Fry
John Galsworthy
Elliott & Fry, London, 1927
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed

WW2 Buckingham Palace letter of condolence
Lt.-Cdr. Henry Thomas Robert Bonham, wounded at Narvik on HMS Fleetwood in 1940
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, London, 1940
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Ephemera | Soft Cover

A Tribute to President Kennedy (1963)
Poet John Alfriston's verse in honour of JFK
John Alfriston, as A Humble English Poet
John Alfriston, London, 1963
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions

England Observed, John Gay (1909–1999)
First edition, a superb collection of John Gay's photographs
John Gay, [Hans Gohler], essay Andrew Sargent; memoir by Gundrun Zufall; foreword by Ralph Beyer
English Heritage, Swindon, 2009
£30.00
Photography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

They Die Like Cattle by David Holt (1997)
A huge original oil painting, inspired by the Great War cemeteries of the Somme and Wilfred Owen's poem
David Holt
Original Artwork, Kent, 1997
£300.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

The Poets in Picardy and Other Poems
1919, first edition, Great War poetry
Edward Adolphe Sinauer De Stein
John Murray, London, 1919
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Letters of Rupert Brooke
1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Masks of Time, A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative
1925, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's verse, including some war poetry
Edmund Blunden, decorations and initial letters by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1925
£32.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions

The Roman Drain by David Holt (1982)
Original abstract oil painting, Kentish apple crates and Roman remains
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1982
£100.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

The Winter Tree by David Holt (2001)
An impressive large original oil painting, in a bespoke hand-tinted frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2001
£200.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork

Social Psychology of International Conduct
1929, first US edition of George M Stratton's book
George Malcolm Stratton
D Appleton, New York, 1929
£20.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | First Editions

Twenty-Four Woodcuts of Cambridge
1926, limited edition, with 24 full page woodcuts of the Colleges etc
John F Greenwood
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926
£30.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated

The Secret Valley
1929, A Picture of the Great Events which Took Place in Unconquered Lakeland during Norman Times
Nicholas Size
Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1929
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

