Recent Additions
The English Roses (2011, signed second edition)
Signed by David Austin, his definitive work on the English Roses
David Austin, photographs by Howard Rice, Andrew Lawson, and Ron Daker
Conrad Octopus, London, 2011
£50.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Advice to the Officers of the British Army (1783, seventh edition)
A rare copy of Francis Grose's satirical guide to British Army life for all ranks. This copy belonging to Captain James Romney, brother of the artist George Romney
Francis Grose, or John Williamson (Please see below)
G Kearsley, London, 1783
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Association Copy
In the Pink, Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator
A profusely illustrated study of the American designer
Carleton Varney
Pointed Leaf Press, New York, 2006
£40.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Modern German Art (1938, first edition)
Oto Bihalji-Merin's defence of modern German avant-garde aginst the Nazi's condemnation of 'degenerate' art
Peter Thoene, pseud. Oto Bihalji-Merin, translated by Charles Fullman, introduction by Herbert Read
Penguin Books, London, 1938
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Most Women... (1931, first edition)
Alec Waugh's writings of women in various setting around the world, woodcuts by Lynd Ward
Alec Waugh
Cassell, London, 1931
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Bethersden Baptist Beginnings
Kenneth W H Howard's contribution to the history of the Kentish village
Kenneth W H Howard
Printed for the Author(s), Bethersden, 1990
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Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Uninhibited Brush, Japanese Art in the Shijo Style
1974, the first, limited edition of Jack Hillier's study
Jack Hillier
Hugh M Moss (Publishing) Ltd, London, 1974
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
The Island of Green Myrtles (1937, signed first edition)
Signed and dated by Shirley Watkins
Shirley Watkins
Macrae-Smith Company, Philadelphia, 1937
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Undertones of War (1930, first revised edition)
Edmund Blunden's classic Great War memoir
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1930
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First thus
Robin Hood: Rebel and Outlaw
1994, Judy Cox's study, published by the Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham
Judy Cox
Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1994
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats (1929)
Revised edition of Ruskin's edition, some illustrations by Kate Greenaway
Francesca Marshall, with original rhymes edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Robert Stennett and Kate Greenaway
David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
In the Rapids of Revolution
John Maclean's writings from 1902 to 1923
John Maclean, edited with an introduction and commentaries by Nan Milton
Allison & Busby, London, 1978
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
A History of Departed Things (Signed first edition, 1918)
Signed by Ruth Head to Edith Olivier
Mrs Henry Head, signed as Ruth Head
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1918
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Landscape in Watercolour, A Personal View (Signed copy)
David Curtis's instructional book on plein air painting
David Curtis
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1996
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Garden Giant (2018, signed first edition)
Signed by Fiona Rose, a delightful illustrated story
Fiona Rose
Mabecron Books, Saltash, 2018
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Parkett No 87 (2010)
Featuring Annette Kelm, Katharina Fritsch, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Kelley Walker
Bice Curiger, editor
Parkett, Zurich & New York, 2010
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Inside the White Cube; The Ideology of Gallery Space
1999, the expanded edition of Brian O'Doherty's seminal critique of modern art display
Brian O'Doherty
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999
£10.00
Art | Soft Cover
Trapped Reality
1997 exhibition book from Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
Luk Lambrecht, curator
Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 1997
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Antimodernism and Artistic Experience
Policing the Boundaries of Modernity (2001, first paperback edition)
Lynda Jessup, editor
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
West Coast Duchamp
1991, a study of Marcel Duchamp's time and influence on the West Coast of America
Bonnie Clearwater, editor
Grassfield Press, Miami Beach, 1991
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Craft (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
2018, edited by Tanya Harrod, a re-examination of craft as a modern and contemporary art
Tanya Harrod, editor
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2018
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Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Costume of Hindostan / Costume De L'Indostan
2012, a facsimile edition featuring 60 of Solvyn's colour plates
Balt. Solvyns
Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2012
£40.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Illustrated
Berlioz and his Century (Signed by pianist Alexander Kelly)
1956, the first condensed edition of Barzun's important study
Jacques Barzun
Meridian Books, Lonfon & New York, 1956
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy | First thus
Soldiers (Multi-signed first edition)
Signed by Philip Ziegler and four Chelsea Pensioners featured in the book
Philip Ziegler
Chatto & Windus, London, 2001
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Naked Hermit (Signed first edition)
Signed by Nick Mayhew-Smith, "A journey to the heart of Celtic Britain"
Nick Mayhew-Smith
SPCK, London, 2019
£25.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
