Recent Additions
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Thai / Siamese dress
A very detailed design
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies and the fashions of 1939
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the three ladies wearing the latest styles
Not stated
Not stated, 1939
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: couture showroom of fur coats
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, featuring a client, the model and a vendeuse
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: an elegant sweeping lady
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the style suggesting late 1930s
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies at the opera
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, a very elegant piece
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
A Dedicated Fan, Julian Jebb 1934–1984 (first edition, 1993)
A book of reminiscences, tributes, letters, and fragments
Tristram Powell, and Georgia Powell, editors
Peralta Press, London, 1993
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
John Arthur Roebuck, Radical Bath MP autograph
from an envelope sent to journalist Cyrus Redding in 1834
John Arthur Roebuck
Not Published, Christchurch, 1834
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864), Scottish author signature
Cut from a letter sent from Edinburgh in 1841
Catherine Sinclair
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£20.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Charles John Kean, Irish actor, handwritten letter (1841)
Excusing himself from an engagement due to illness
Charles John Kean
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Charles John Kean, Irish actor, autograph
Signed in Edinburgh in March 1841, with his red wax seal
Charles John Kean
Not Published, Edinburgh, 1841
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Nausea, The Wall and other stories
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel and short fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction by Hayden Carruth, translated by Lloyd Alexander
MJF Books, New York, 1998
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Happy Death (1972, first edition)
The first English language edition of Albert Camus's first novel
Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, afterword and notes by Jean Sarocchi
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1972
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Living (1948)
The second impression of Henry Green's Modernist novel centred around a Birmingham factory
Henry Green
The Hogarth Press, London, 1948
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Night Thoughts (1956, first edition)
David Gascoyne's long poem for radio
David Gascoyne, dustwrapper by Julian Trevelyan
Andre Deutsch, London, 1956
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
de Havilland DH.60 Moth (Signed first edition)
Signed by Stuart McKay to a Moth owner whose plane is in the book
Stuart McKay
Midland, Hinckley, 2005
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mark Lemon, handwritten & signed envelope c1860
Addressed to British journalist Cyrus Redding
Mark Lemon
Not Published, 1860
£40.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
W Harrison Ainsworth, signed & handwritten envelope 1961
Sent to British journalist Cyrus Redding
W Harrison Ainsworth
Not Published, 1862
£50.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Louis-Philippe I, King of the French autograph
A clear handwritten signature, c1830
Louis-Philippe I King of the French
Not Published, 1830
£60.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Paul Doherty—two signed Medieval crime mystery first editions
The Straw Men (Brother Athelstan), and The Mindnight Man
Paul Doherty
Crème de la Crime, Sutton, 2021
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fifth Miracle (1998, signed first edition)
Signed by Paul Davies, "The search for the origin of life"
Paul Davies
Allen Lane, London, 1998
£40.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
One Hundred Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (1947)
In an attractive Barnett Freedman binding
John Rothenstein, binding design by Barnett Freedman
Tate Gallery, London, 1947
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Family of Tufnell (1924, first edition)
A privately printed family history from Elizabethan times, and including the family's Great War service
E Bertha Tufnell
Privately printed, 1924
£40.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
That Imaginative Don Quijote de la Mancha (2nd ed, 1914)
A fairly rare early copy of Robinson Smith's translation of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Robinson Smith
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1914
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Girls Who Lie (Signed first edition)
Signed by Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, limited to 500 copies
Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb
Orenda Books, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Horror in Architecture (2013, first edition)
A study of how architectural anomalies, "monstrosities," and grotesque forms challenge conventional design norms
Joshua Comaroff, and Ong Ker-shing
Oro Editions, Novato, CA, 2013
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
