Recent Additions
Placing Faces (2013, first edition)
The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century
Gill Perry, with Kate Retford, and Jordan Vibert, with Hannah Lyons (editors)
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2013
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
1914, Poetry Remembers (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2013
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Memories and Reflections (1955, signed first edition)
The autobiography of J H Badley, founder & headmaster of Bedales
J H Badley
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1955
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Book of Margery Kempe, A Modern Version
The life of a 15th century laywoman, widely considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language
Margery Kempe, edited by W Butler-Bowdon, introduction by W R Chambers
Jonathan Cape, London, 1940
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Contribution to Indian Carcinology
1892, J R Henderson's study of Indian crustacea
J R Henderson
The Linnaean Society, London, 1892
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
November the Fifth by David Holt (2004)
An original painting of Bonfire Night fireworks
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2004
£70.00
David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Memorial in High Wood by David Holt (1997)
An original painting in bespoke frame, a sombre painting inspired by a visit to the Somme battlefields
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1997
£70.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Sealed and Delivered, A Book on the Abyssinian Campaign (1942)
First edition, owned by British colonial administrator J K Maurice of Gambella (Ethiopia) from 1928–1949.
G L Steer
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1942
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
The Letters of Lewis Carroll
1979, 2 volumes, Morton Cohen's comprehensive edition of Lewis Carroll's correspondence
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Macmillan, London, 1979
£45.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Books in Chains and other Bibliographical Pieces (1892, first edition)
Quarter leather binding, a collection of writings from William Blades, printer and bibliographer
William Blades, edited with an introduction by Henry B Wheatley
Elliot Stock, London, 1892
£30.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Ye Olde Story of Humgruffin (1986, first edition)
Geoff Huthcinson and Dave Brown's telling of the story of the Giant of Brede and the evil crow...
Geoff Hutchinson, and Dave Brown. And a spider...
Printed for the Author(s), 1986
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Mike Oldfield, A Life Dedicated to Music (Signed first edition)
Signed, dedicated and numbered by Chris Dewey
Chris Dewey
Brimstone Press, Gillingham, 2013
£40.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
The Barbary Corsairs (1890, first edition)
With bookplate, siganture and damning comment by Frances Pierrepont Barnard
Stanley Lane-Poole, with additions by Lieut. J D J Kelley, US Navy
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1890
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The End of the World (2019)
Jeni Couzyn's story in verse on the climate emergency
Jeni Couzyn
Firelizard Press, 2019
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1892)
1300+ pages of this popular Victorian reference work
Benjamin Vincent
Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co, London, 1892
£30.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
8 Becomes Free by David Holt (1976)
An original semi-abstract oil painting inspired by the numbers at Hythe Ranges
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1976
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Horses & Husbands, The Memoirs of Etti Plesch (first edition, 2007)
This copy signed and dedciated by the editor, Hugo Vickers
Etti Plesch, edited by Hugo Vickers
Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster, 2007
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Time Trap (1979, Signed copy)
Signed by Nicholas Fisk, the first paperback edition
Nicholas Fisk
Puffin, London, 1979
£20.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations
H R Dickinson, illustrated by A S Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, F C Dickinson, Charles Dixon, W Hatherell, H M Paget, Balliol Salmon, and the author.
Printed for the Author(s), 1906
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Letters from Julia (1897, signed by W T Stead)
A rare signed first edition of Stead's automatic writing communications from the deceased Julia A Ames
W T Stead
Grant Richards, London, 1897
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Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes
1972, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in French
Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrations by Jean Kerleroux
Editions de Cremille, Geneve, 1972
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
George Orwell, non-fiction and selected essays & journalism (1980, first thus)
Containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Selections from Essays and Journalism 1931 to 1949 (including Such, Such Were the Joys and The Lion and the Unicorn), and The Road to Wigan Pier. Complete and Unabridged
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg / Octopus, London, 1980
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Old City of Warsaw, 10 wood-engravings (Signed limited edition)
Each wood-engraving signed by Eugeniusz Pichell, housed in a leather portfolio
Eugeniusz Pichell, also as Eugeniusza Pichella in Polish
Intrografia, Warsaw, 1969
£150.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Celebrating Krishna (Signed first edition, 2001)
This copy signed and dedicated by photographer Robyn Beeche
Shrivatsa Goswami, with photographs by Robyn Beeche
Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana, Vrindavan, 2001
£120.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Ismailis, An Illustrated History (2008, first edition)
2008, a very good copy of this important study
Farhad Daftary, and Zulfikar Hirji
Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
