Recent Additions

1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898

1914, a first edition of the English actresses tour of the Lake District

John Murray, London, 1914

Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, Winter Sea, Reflections on Blue Water, and After Pusan

Collins Harvill, London, 1988

Entry into Jerusalem, Catalysts, Against the Dark, and Necessary Ends

Hutchinson, London, 1983

The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss

Grub Street, London, 2003

Signed and dated by Diana Springall

A & C Black, London, 2011

1978, first edition, a remarkable illustrated record

Canongate, Edinburgh, 1978

A hardback copy of Anne Frank's remarkable diary

The Modern Library, New York, 1978

Inscribed by the author, W H Cremer, proprietor of one of Victorian London's most important toy shops

W H Cremer, London, 1871

A large, powerful original oil painting

Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1999

1912, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in a fine blue half-leather binding by Bumpus

Cassell, London, 1912

Harold R Pestana's catalogue of his Great War collection of books, with handwritten letter

Harold R Pestana, Maine, 1996

1959, second edition, a comprehensive list of Rupert Brooke's works

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959

A comprehensive illustrated study of two hundred years of women's travel and writing from The Arcadian Library

The Arcadian Library & OUP, London, 2014

1910, Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems printed from an illuminated manuscript by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Siegle Hill and Co, London, 1910

First edition of the memoirs of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925

1969, a hardback first edition of Rumer Godden's sensitive novel

Macmillan, London, 1969

1987, a UK proof copy of Terry McMIllan's first novel

Jonathan Cape, London, 1987

Signed by Marcel Theroux

Rough Trade, London, 2018

A collection of writings on the experience of the Scottish farm worker

John Donald, Edinburgh, 1984

1917, Edmond Holmes' discussion of the inner life in terms of education and development

Constable, London, 1917

Rene Boylesve's tale of adolescence, with woodcuts by Paul Baudier

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1928, Marguerite Audoux's tale of rural France in the early twentieth century

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1929, Claude Anet's love story with woodcuts by Angelina Beloff

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1929

1928, Myriam Harry's novel of travel in Ceylon, illustrated by Pierre Falke

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928