Recent Additions

Naomi Mitchison's short stories of the Roman Empire

Jonathan Cape, London, 1924

Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1927

Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations

Macmillan, London, 1924

Two very decent reprinted editions of Kipling's classic tales

Macmillan, London, 1924

James Joyce's short work that would be part of Finnegans Wake

Faber & Faber, London, 1932

This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board

John Murray, London, 1923

Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students

George G. Harrap, London, 1918

E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930

1924, a nicely bound copy of Pierre Benoit's 1919 classic French lost-world novel

Albin Michel, Paris, 1924

A large original oil on canvas in a bespoke frame

Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2003

An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936

A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance

Hutchinson, London, 1959

A large original oil painting inspired by the customs of the Pueblo Indians

Original Artwork, New Mexico, 1959

A selection from nine modern Chinese poets

Routledge, London, 1947

"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film

Convoy Publications, London, 1949

1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire

Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930

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"

H Lintot et al, London, 1750

First paperback editions of the first two books in the Necroscope series

Grafton Publishing, London, 1986

No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'

John Murray, London, 1973

Edmund Wilson's "A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930"

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1935

Signed by Richard Cockett, his study of "Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931–1983"

HarperCollins, London, 1994

James Nelson's seminal study of the health, manners and education of children

R & J Dodsley, London, 1756

With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker

Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955

Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat

Editions Athena, Paris, 1954

With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate

Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948