Recent Additions
Photograph album, with original images of the 1900 Oberammergau Passion Play actors
Louis Mountbatten as a baby, larks aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert, and with candid shots of King Edward VII, and many curious images...
John and Maud Le Couteur
Not Published, 1901
£150.00
Photography | Hard Cover
A Midsummer Memory
1910, limited edition, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Bookplate
RAF Yatesbury, The History
including the First and Second World Wars, illustrated
Phil Tomaselli
Phil Tomaselli, Bristol, 2004
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)
and Euphues and his England (1580), two volumes bound as one, published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
John Lyly, carefully edited by Edward Arber
Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Alone
1921, first edition, Norman Douglas's travels around Italy
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The End of Print, The Graphic Design of David Carson (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by David Carson
David Carson, and Lewis Blackwell, introduction by David Byrne
Laurence King, London, 1995
£100.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Art and the Industrial Revolution
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Francis D Klingender, edited and revised by Arthur Elton
Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1968
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Donelson F Hoopes
Studio Vista, London, 1971
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate
German Romanticism and English Art
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
William Vaughan
Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1979
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate
The Engraved Designs of William Blake
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Laurence Binyon
Da Capo, New York, 1967
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Bookplate
Sir John Everett Millais
This copy from the library of British architect James Stirling, with his nameplate to the front pastedown.
Geoffroy Millais
Academy Editions, London, 1979
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
A Biography of David Cox; with remarks on his Works and Genius
1881, hardback, first edition of this study of the Birmingham artist David Cox
William Hall, edited, with additions, by John Thackray Bunce
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London, 1881
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Five books on William Hogarth, his art and his times
three with the ownership mark of Jill Allibone, architectural historian
Various, including Peter Quennell
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Bookplate
Peter Pan's Play-Book
1929, a collection of 24 images on card by Flora White, a rough copy of a rare title.
J M Barrie, illustrated by Flora White
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Original architect's drawing for a staircase for a hall
1946, hand-drawn, watercolour (with maid), and technical plan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original Architectural Drawing for an Author's Retreat
1946, hand-drawn and hand-coloured, a quiet country cottage with large writing room
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1946
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Hand-painted | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original Architectural Drawing for a Small Dance Hall
1947, hand-drawn, with floorplan and two dancers in evening wear
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Recipes for the Bartender
c1950, first edition, a paperback pocket book of cocktails from 21 Brands
21 Brands
21 Brands Inc, New York, 1950
£20.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Making of the English Landscape: Leicestershire
W G Hoskin's Illustrated Essay on the History of the Leicestershire Landscape (1957)
W G Hoskins
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences
1942 hardback edition of J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938
J B S Haldane
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942
£35.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Jane Austen in Australia (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson
Barbara Ker Wilson
Secker & Warburg, London, 1984
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The King's Drum
Harold Coulander's collection of African folk tales (1963)
Harold Courlander, illustrated by Enrico Arno
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963
£15.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Evolution of the English House
1898, first edition of S O Addy's illustrated history of domestic architecture
Sidney Oldall Addy
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Crystal Sun (Signed copy)
A first edition signed by Robert Temple, "Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World"
Robert Temple, introduction by Arthur C Clarke
Century, London, 2000
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
