Recent Additions
The Golden Honeycomb (Signed first edition)
Signed by Vincent Cronin to the parents of WW2 pilot Richard Hillary, and winner of the Richard Hillary Prize (1955)
Vincent Cronin
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Overgrown Greenhouse by David Holt (2005)
A wonderful large original oil painting in bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2005
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Decembrists (Dekabristite)
A Bulgarian history of the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 in Imperial Russia
Brigita Yosifova
Publishing House of the Fatherland Front, Sofia, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Significant Message of Georges Mathieu (1952)
The book for Mathieu's first solo US exhibition and an important development in the Art Informel movement
Michel Tapié, and Georges Mathieu
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, 1952
£40.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Three early 20th Century Luigi Prandello Plays
1924/1925, Il Piacere dell'Onestà; Pensaci, Giacomino!; and La Vita che ti Diedi
Luigi Pirandello
Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze (Florence), 1924
£15.00
Drama | Soft Cover
The Book of Humans (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2018
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Grave Expectations (Signed first edition)
Signed & dedicated by Alice Bell at Comic Con 2023
Alice Bell
Corvus, London, 2023
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
On the Party (1951, third edition; signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by artist Geri Morgan (1926–2010)
Liu Shao-Chi
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1951
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
The Law of Political Uniforms, Public Meetings and Private Armies
Joseph Baker's 1937 book hot on the heels of the Public Order Act 1936 and the British Union of Fascists
Joseph Baker
H A Just & Co, London, 1937
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Hsi-yu Chi (1970, first edition)
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Leather Bound
Rockchange : Castlerigg by David Holt (1996)
An original atmospheric oil study of the Neolithic stone circle near Keswick, Cumbria
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1996
£180.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£20.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
Contes Populaires Berberes, Recuillis, Traduits et Annotes
The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers
Rene Basset
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Grounds for Divorce in Hindu and English Law (Signed copy)
Inscribed by the author for E P Skone-James
P K Virdi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1972
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Art of Public Speaking
c1923, with tips on electioneering etc
Lucy D Bell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover
The Right to Strike
A rare 1921 novel of industrial action and its consequences
Ernest Hutchinson, and Geo. Goodchild
Robert Hayes, London, 1921
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
121st High Priest of the Samaritans (Signed postcard, 1920s)
Signed by Yitzhaq II ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia
Not stated
Not stated, n.d.
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Original photograph of the Japanese Peace Envoy, August 1945
Taken at Mingaladon Airfield (Rangoon) and showing Esler Dening, Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata and Rear Admiral Kaigun Chujo Chudo
Not stated
Not stated, Rangoon (Burma), 1945
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Right Arm & Staff of Long Man of Wilmington (2008 original painting)
An oil on canvas by David Holt
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2008
£75.00
David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Secret Army (1977, first edition)
John Brason's novel of the BBC series set in Belgium in the Second World War
John Brason
BBC, London, 1977
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nabi (signed by Elizabeth Gili)
2001, Joan Gili's translation of Josep Carner's classic Catalan poem
Josep Carner, translated from Catalan by J L Gili, Catalan text edited by Jaume Coll, preface by Jonathan Gili, introduction by Arthur Terry, acknowledgements by Elizabeth Gili.
Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2001
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Literaturnoe Nasledstvo, Alexander Herzen and Nikolay Ogarev, Nos 61, 62, & 63
1953–1956; Three volumes archiving the lives and activities of Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev
Aleksandr Herzen, and N P Ogarev
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1953
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Apologia, Ogonyok Library 34 (Signed first edition, 1991)
Signed by Kir Bulychev under his real name, Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko
Kir Bulychev, pseudonym of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko
Pravda Publishing House, Moscow, 1990
£80.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
