Recent Additions
Maiden Voyage
First edition, 1982, a novel of the R.M.S. Titanic
Patricia Crowley, dustwrapper by Margaret Bonito
Robert Hale, London, 1982
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ordinary Families
1933, first edition. E Arnot Robertson's novel of a Suffolk family in the early 20th century
E Arnot Robertson
Jonathan Cape, London, 1933
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Aspidistra in Babylon
First edition, 1960. Four novellas from H E Bates
H E Bates
Michael Joseph, London, 1960
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Exaltation of Skylarks in Prose and Poetry (Signed first edition)
Signed by the compiler, Stewart Beer
Stewart Beer, compiler. Preface by Richard Mabey
SMH Press, Pulborough, 1995
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Le Manuscrit de Ma Mere
Half-vellum binding, 1886. Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary
Alphonse De Lamartine
Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Hetären Gespräche [Dialogues of the Courtesans] (Signed first edition)
1983, signed, and with small sketch of an owl, by the illustrator, Inge Jastram
Lucian, illustrated by Inge Jastram, translation (into German) by C. M. Wieland
Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin, 1983
£80.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Slipcase
Biological and Geological Perspectives of Dinoflagellates
2013, from the library of the Geological Society. Current research on fossil and modern dinoflagellates
J M Lewis, with F Marret and L R Bradley (editors)
The Geological Society, London, 2013
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Scala Diva
Erio Piccagliani 's photographs from the Milan Opera House (1950–1979)
Silvana Turzio
Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena, 1993
£30.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Masks of Lucifer
1992, first edition. Technology and the Occult in Twentieth Century Popular Literature
David Morris
Batsford, London, 1992
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Great Offensive, The Strategy of Coalition Warfare (Signed first edition)
Signed and dedicated by the translator Heinz Norden
Max Werner, translated by Heinz and Ruth Norden
Victor Gollancz, London, 1943
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Ghost of Henry James
1970. The first American edition of David Plante's first novel
David Plante
Gambit Incorporated, Boston, 1970
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Cumsha Cruise (Signed first edition)
1937, signed by Ernest Laurie-Long
Ernest Laurie-Long
Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1937
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Men's Gods (Signed first edition)
Signed by Edward Charles, a fragment from an unfinished pageant
Edward Charles
Joiner and Steele Ltd, London, 1931
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Slipcase
Mozart (Signed first edition)
1979, This copy signed by Scottish composer Shena Fraser
Hugh Ottaway
Orbis, London, 1979
£25.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
My Little Lady
1871. Eleanor Frances Poynter's first novel, complete in two volumes
Eleanor Frances Poynter, but published anonymously
Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1871
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta (Signed first edition)
This copy signed by poet Humbert Wolfe
James Laver
The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1929
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Association Copy
Globalization and Culture
First edition, complete in two volumes
Manfred B Steger, editor
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2012
£200.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Durchläuchtige Welt (Signed first edition)
Signed by Franz Prinz Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein to Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge
Franz Prinz Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Prestel Verlag, Munchen, 1959
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
That Astonishing Infantry
A hardback edition of The History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689–2006
Michael Glover, and Jonathon Riley
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2008
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
My Road to Opera (Signed first edition)
Signed by Boris Goldovsky
Boris Goldovsky, with Curtis Cate
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1979
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Act Relating to the Relief of the Poor (Scotland) 1845
Rebound hardback in plain blue cloth
Not stated
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848
£15.00
History | Hard Cover
Observations on Various Passages of Scripture (1808)
Clarke's Harmer, volume 3 only, with chapters on honouring the dead, Judea and Egypt
Adam Clarke, from the writings of The Rev Thomas Harmer
J Johnson, London, 1808
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
A Scots Anthology (Signed first edition)
Poems in the Scottish dialect. Signed by Eric Linklater and Allan C Fraser
John W Oliver, and J C Smith (editors), title page design by Joan Hassall.
Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1949
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
G.P.U. Justice (1938)
A first edition hardback describing the workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s
Maurice Edelman
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Corona Benignitatis Anni Dei
1920. Paul Claudel's French poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hachette
Paul Claudel
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
