Recent Additions

A selection from nine modern Chinese poets

Routledge, London, 1947

"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film

Convoy Publications, London, 1949

1930, limited edition, Trente Compositions aux Crayons de Couleur de Rassenfosse pour Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire

Dorbon-Ainé, Paris, 1930

Joseph Shaw's "Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and All Others Concerned with Parish Business"

H Lintot et al, London, 1750

First paperback editions of the first two books in the Necroscope series

Grafton, London, 1986

No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'

John Murray, London, 1973

Edmund Wilson's "A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930"

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1935

Signed by Richard Cockett, his study of "Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931–1983"

HarperCollins, London, 1994

James Nelson's seminal study of the health, manners and education of children

R & J Dodsley, London, 1756

With 32 colour plates by Brunelleschi, and two signed bookplates for Gordon Smith by David Bekker

Gibert Jeune, Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1955

Ovid's verse in prose, limited edition, with illustrations by Paul-Emile Becat

Editions Athena, Paris, 1954

With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate

Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948

Second edition of Roger Crosnier's instructive book

Faber & Faber, London, 1965

1 : 4000000 scale, with instructions on where to mark either the American or Russian landing

Falk Plan Publishing Co, London, 1968

Signed by Ra Bonewitz

Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1986

Signed and dedciated by Viv Albertine

Faber & Faber, London, 2018

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano. In the Register of Erotic Books (Entry No 2950).

Richard Bentley, London, 1865

1925, limited edition of Baudelaire's prose poems, illustrated by Louis Bouquet

Enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris, 1925

Illustrated with full page colour decorations by Albert Rutherston

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928

Our Town; The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1958

1986, the first edition of this introductory guide to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism

Nichiren Shoshu International Centre, Tokyo, 1986

The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma, an important Mahayana sutra

Nichiren Shu Headquarters, Tokyo, 1991

Three on one sheet, clipped from letters

Not Published, n.d.

Dated 1827 and sent from Gloucester House

Not Published, London, 1827

Sent to Lt-Gen. Sir Leslie Rundle, commanding Harrismith

Not Published, South Africa, 1902