Recent Additions
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land
P L Travers' fictional diary of an Atlantic Crossing
P L Travers, illustrated by Gertrude Hermes
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1941
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Autobiography of Hamlet Nicholson (1892, first edition)
Rochdale interest, and Nicholson persecution for fighting against Ritualism in the Parish Church
Hamlet Nicholson
Not stated, Rochdale, 1892
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
On the Nature and Significance of the Crafts
Brian Keeble's three essays on W.R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Brian Keeble, with a foreword by Keith Critchlow
Temenos Academy, London, 2005
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Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Oxford High School 1975, Centenary Magazine
Contributions from Gillian Avery, Jane & Sophie Grigson, Elizabeth Jennings...
Oxford High School
Oxford High School, Oxford, 1975
£20.00
School & University Registers | Soft Cover | First Editions
White Gate by David Holt (1977)
A striking Modern British semi-abstract oil painting inspired by Hythe Ranges in Kent
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1977
£180.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Concrete Work
1941, E Molloy's guide to concrete construction, Volume 4 in Newnes Building Practice series
E Molloy
George Newnes, London, 1941
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The House with Green Shutters
c1932, with five super illustrations by Sidney Stanley
George Douglas, with an introduction by J W Drawbell, illustrated by Sidney Stanley
Collins, London, 1932
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Radio Recombination Lines [Astrophysics]
1980, first edition, Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 24–25, 1979 (Astrophysics & Space Science Library No 80)
P A Shaver, editor, contributors include Daniel Kleppner, Jacqueline van Gorkom, Yervant Terzian, Peter G Mezger, Nino Panagia, Robert L Brown, Edith Falgarone, Jay Lockman, Edward Churchwell, and James S Mathis amongst others.
D Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1980
£50.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions
Firebird 1, Writing Today (1982, signed first edition)
Graham Swift has signed and dated his short story, The Watch
T J Binding, editor, contributors include Graham Swift, William Trevor, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter.
Penguin Books / Allen Lane, London, 1982
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Memoriam, James Gordon Smith (1899)
Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son
Samuel Smith, MP, with sermons by Rev George Johnstone, Rev A J Doull, and Rev J J Muir
Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maria Callas, a collection of 14 books in Italian
includining Michele Nocera, Tripeleff, Irene Bottero, and Leonardo Bragaglia
Various
Various, Roma, Milano etc, n.d.
£50.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
The Carved Masonry Domes of Mediaeval Cairo
An illustrated architectural study
Christine Kessler
The American University in Cairo Press, London, 1976
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Francis Bacon
2008, the Tate Gallery's reassessment of Francis Bacon's importance
Matthew Gale, and Chris Stephens (editors)
Tate Gallery, London, 2008
£16.50
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Impressionist & the City; Pissarro's Series Paintings
A study of Camille Pissarro's later urban painting
Richard R Brettell, and Joachim Pissarro, edited by Mary Anne Stevens
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1993
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Trap (Signed uncorrected proof)
Signed by Catherine Ryan Howard and her father, John.
Catherine Ryan Howard
Bantam Press, London, 2023
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Man-Made Gemstones (first edition)
1979, Dennis Elwell's guide to the methods of making gemstones
Dennis Elwell
Ellis Horwood Publishers, Chichester, 1979
£24.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
RMS Aquitania: Original Pencil Plans/Sketches Attributed to Arthur J. Davis
With two original freehand pencil plans/sketches executed on the endpapers of Kipling’s Life’s Handicap (1913)
Rudyard Kipling, with the bookplate of architect Arthur J Davis
Macmillan, London, 1913
£200.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Original Artwork | Bookplate
Reel to Real, A Life in Film (Signed first edition)
Signed by Noel Cronin
Noel Cronin
Talking Pictures TV, 2021
£20.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Winter Solstice (Signed first edition)
Signed by Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2000
£27.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Nabokov Russian Translation
An unabridged republication of the 1923 first edition
Lewis Carroll, translated by "V Sirin" (Vladimir Nabokov), drawings by S Zalshupin
Dover, New York, 1976
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First thus
Sunward by Yeoward (Signed limited edition)
The Story of Yeoward of Liverpool, the First 100 Years
Theodore W S Barry
Granta Editions, Cambridge, 1994
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
War and Peace in the Space Age
1959, US officer James Gavin's warnings over the future of warfare
Lt.-Gen James Gavin, introduction by Lt.-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Lore of the Land
1982, first edition of John Seymour's classic of land husbandry
John Seymour, illustrated by Sally Seymour
Whittet Books, Weybridge, 1982
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg (Namibia)
Part IV Umuab and Karoab Gorges (Volume 2 only), with 10 large fold out plates
Harald Pager
Heinrich-Barth-Institut, Koln, 1998
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Confessions of an Art Addict
1960, a first edition of Peggy Guggenheim's memoir
Peggy Guggenheim
Andre Deutsch, London, 1960
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
