Recent Additions
Five Alan Ross first editions, autobiography, travel & poetry
Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, Winter Sea, Reflections on Blue Water, and After Pusan
Alan Ross
Collins Harvill, London, 1988
£25.00
Collections | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Diana Springall, A Brave Eye (Signed copy)
Signed and dated by Diana Springall
June Hill
A & C Black, London, 2011
£26.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Stones, 18th Century Scottish Gravestones
1978, first edition, a remarkable illustrated record
Betty Willsher, and Doreen Hunter
Canongate, Edinburgh, 1978
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Haunted Landscape by David Holt (1999)
A large, powerful original oil painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1999
Sold
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Kidnapped
1912, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in a fine blue half-leather binding by Bumpus
Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by W B Hole
Cassell, London, 1912
£120.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
The Great War 1914–1918 (Signed copy), [Bibliography]
Harold R Pestana's catalogue of his Great War collection of books, with handwritten letter
Harold R Pestana
Harold R Pestana, Maine, 1996
£30.00
Reference & Bibliography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
A Bibliography of the Works of Rupert Brooke
1959, second edition, a comprehensive list of Rupert Brooke's works
Geoffrey Keynes
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959
£20.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Western Women Travelling East 1716–1916
A comprehensive illustrated study of two hundred years of women's travel and writing from The Arcadian Library
Penelope Tuson
The Arcadian Library & OUP, London, 2014
£80.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems of Pleasure
1910, Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems printed from an illuminated manuscript by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illuminations by A Sangorski and G Sutcliffe. Frontispiece by Frank C Pape
Siegle Hill and Co, London, 1910
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | First thus | Illustrated
In this House of Brede
1969, a hardback first edition of Rumer Godden's sensitive novel
Rumer Godden
Macmillan, London, 1969
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mama (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
1987, a UK proof copy of Terry McMIllan's first novel
Terry McMillan
Jonathan Cape, London, 1987
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories (Signed copy)
Signed by Marcel Theroux
Marcel Theroux, artwork by Alice Smith
Rough Trade, London, 2018
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland 1770–1914
A collection of writings on the experience of the Scottish farm worker
T M Devine, editor
John Donald, Edinburgh, 1984
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Problem of the Soul, A Tract for Teachers
1917, Edmond Holmes' discussion of the inner life in terms of education and development
Edmond Holmes
Constable, London, 1917
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions
Je Vous Ai Desiree Un Soir...
Rene Boylesve's tale of adolescence, with woodcuts by Paul Baudier
Rene Boylesve, woodcuts by Paul Baudier
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Marie-Claire
1928, Marguerite Audoux's tale of rural France in the early twentieth century
Marguerite Audoux, with woodcuts by Paul-Emile Colin
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Ariane, Jeune Fille Russe
1929, Claude Anet's love story with woodcuts by Angelina Beloff
Claude Anet, pseud.Jean Schopfer, woodcuts by Angelina Beloff
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1929
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
L'Ile de Volupte
1928, Myriam Harry's novel of travel in Ceylon, illustrated by Pierre Falke
Myriam Harry, with woodcuts by Pierre Falke
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
La Petite Fille de Jerusalem
1928, with 27 woodcuts by Gerard Cochet
Myriam Harry, woodcuts by Gerard Cochet
Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Oxford University Handbook 1915
The students's handbook to the working, rules and ways of the university
Oxford University
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914
£30.00
School & University Registers | Hard Cover
Stills (Signed copy)
Signed artist and art historian, Liz Rideal
Liz Rideal, essays by Norman Bryson and Charles Darwent
Lucas Schoormans, New York, 2001
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Imaginary Light, Sculptures and Installations (Signed copy)
Signed by the artist, David Johnson
David Johnson, with an essay by Roy Exley
Persistent Objects Limited, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Platonics
A 1995 edition with a new introduction of Ethel Arnold's 1894 novel
Ethel Arnold, with a new Introduction by Phyllis Wachter
Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1995
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First thus
No Snow in Latching
1949, first edition, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Touring in 1600
1911, first edition, 'A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education'
E S Bates
Constable, London, 1911
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
