Recent Additions

With colour illustrations by Dutch artist Willy Schermele

Juvenile Productions Ltd, London, 1960

Signed by both authors, Brian Braithwaite and Joan Barrell

Associated Business Press, London, 1979

Signed by Tim Blanning, the first printing

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2010

Signed by the editor Margaret Busby and poet Patience Agbabi, contributor

Myriad, Oxford, 2019

1895, second edition, an alphabetical dictionary of the body, ailments and treatments etc

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1895

1896, second edition, a series of illustrated lectures delivered to Plumbers, Engineers etc

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1896

1844, hardback. S J Van Butchell's treatments and cases

H Renshaw, London, 1844

Volume V of The English Charlemagne Romances (the Sultan of Babylon)

The Early English Text Society / OUP, London, 1969

Volumes 2 & 3 of Baron Baude's 1841 study of Algeria

Meline, Cans et Compagnie, Bruxelles et Leipzig, 1841

1960, a lovely copy of this witty account of boating on the Norfolk Broads

Blakes, London, 1960

Peter Goffin's 1946 study on the philosophy of art

Lindsay Drummond, London, 1946

1947, A selection from the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

International Publishers, New York, 1947

1891, a first edition of L H Bailey's Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants

The Rural Publishing Company, New York, 1891

A first edition of E P Thompson's final book, a study of William Blake and the Moral Law

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

1999, The Levenger Press' pocket edition of Lewis Carroll's lecture

Levenger Press, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999

1939, a miscellany of Stephen Leacock's humorous writings

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1939

1946, the second edition of Kafka's later allegories

Secker & Warburg, London, 1946

1921, first edition, a series of brief art lessons from Louise Hervieu

Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1921

1920, an early hardback edition of Arthur Wesley Dow's classic instructional art book

Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1920

1946, Hellmuth Weissenborn's charming illustrated tale of a rumbunctious raven

The Acorn Press, London, 1946

An early printing of Karel and Josef Capek's play (1924)

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1924

2004, first paperback printing of this edition of Olaf Stapledon's classic

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2004

An immense round up of doctors etc for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

J & A Churchill, London, 1915

1955, the first printing in dustwrapper of Henry Treece's adventure story

Faber & Faber, London, 1955

1972, an elusive title, first paperback edition

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972