Recent Additions
The Three Books of the Potter's Art
1980, a facsimile edition of Cipriano Piccolpasso's I Tre Libri Dell'Arte Del Vasaio
Cipriano Piccolpasso, translated and introduced by Ronald Lightbown and Alan Caiger-Smith
Scolar Press, London, 1980
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Crafts | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Concise Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marine Engineering and Nautical Terms
1964, a first edition of G O Watson's dictionary
G O Watson
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1964
£30.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Memoirs of Life on a River Thames Tug
1928, Trinity House pilot Charles Haill's autobiography
C W Haill
Reporter, Ltd., Gravesend, 1928
£25.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
These Little Ones
1909, a first edition of Edith Nesbit's collection of short stories
Edith Nesbit, illustrated by Spencer Pryse
George Allen, London, 1909
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Henrietta's House
1942, a first printing of Elizabeth Goudge's charming tale
Elizabeth Goudge, illustrated by Lorna Steele
University of London Press, London, 1942
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The School Queens
1908, a first edition of L T Meade's novel of school life
L T Meade, illustrated by William Rainey
W & R Chambers, London, 1908
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
When We Were Very Young
1927, the first appearance of Winnie the Pooh, and a very clean copy
A A Milne, with decorations by Ernest H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1927
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Stories of the Forties
1945, including Anna Kavan and Julian Maclaren-Ross
Reginald Moore, and Woodrow Wyatt (editors)
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945
£22.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
English Captain
1941, Tom Wintringham's account of his time with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
Tom Wintringham
Penguin Books, London, 1941
£35.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
Along the Seine, Paris
A signed coloured etching of the booksellers / Bouquinistes of Paris by Marcel Julien Baron
Marcel Julien Baron
Not stated, Paris, 1947
£50.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Apple Boxes: Signs by David Holt (1980)
An original semi-abstract oil painting on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1980
£120.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Commissioner (Signed copy)
Signed by Stanley Johnson to Michael & Sandra Howard
Stanley Johnson
Century, London, 1987
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Range Burning by David Holt (1979)
A striking Modern British semi-abstract oil painting inspired by Hythe Ranges in Kent
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1979
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
'T E Lawrence' in Arabia and After
1937 edition in dustwrapper
Basil H Liddell Hart
Jonathan Cape, London, 1937
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Problems of Soviet School Education
Four lectures by Anton Makarenko
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965
£10.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions
Moonrakers and Mischief (Signed copy)
Signed by G J Feakes, a 1961 comedy-mystery novel
G J Feakes, dustwrapper by ffolkes
Chapman & Hall, London, 1961
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A20 Chevrons by David Holt (1966)
An original semi-abstract watercolour and ink painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, Kent, 1966
£35.00
David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Pursuer
1962, the first UK edition of Gunther Weisenborn's thriller Der Verfolger
Gunther Weisenborn, translated from the German by Paul Selver
William Heinemann, London, 1962
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Midnight on the Place Pigalle
1932, first UK edition of Maurice Dekobra's Minuit... Place Pigalle
Maurice Dekobra, translated from the French by Metcalfe Wood, with twelve woodcuts by Jean Oberle
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Disenchantment
1922, C E Montague's articles of disillusionment over the Great War
C E Montague
Chatto & Windus, London, 1922
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | 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
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Robert Buhler (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Buhler
Colin Hayes
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1986
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Bassano signed society portrait
c1928, signed in pencil by Bassano
Bassano
Bassano, London, 1928
£25.00
Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The True Story of My Life
1926. The autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Mary Howitt. Preface by Violet Jacob, Appendix by Hanna Astrup Larsen
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1926
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First thus
The Long Fourth & other stories
1948, Peter Taylor's first collection of short stories
Peter Taylor, introduction by Robert Penn Warren
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1948
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
