Recent Additions
The White Men (Signed copy)
Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"
Julia Blackburn, foreword by Dr Edmund Carpenter
Orbis, London, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
After You with the Pistol
The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Secker & Warburg, London, 1979
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ray Atkins, Recent realist paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Ray Atkins
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hepher, paintings, reliefs and collages, of interiors and exteriors
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
David Hepher, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Henri Chopin, Graphic, objective and other poems
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Henri Chopin
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Japanese Sword Essentials
Yoshiaki Limura's profusely illustrated study of Japanese swords
Yoshiaki Limura
Unknown, Japan, 1961
£60.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Marc Chagall, en Terre Promise
2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations
Francois Chapon
Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Bon Mot; A Calendar of Scintillating Wisdom
An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...
Not stated
Hills, London, 1936
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Blue Cockerel (1994) by David Holt
A vibrant, colourful original abstract framed oil on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1994
£100.00
Artwork | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1989
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate
Legends and Stories of Ireland
1832, Samuel Lover's tales from Irish folklore, ghosts and the supernatural
Samuel Lover, with six etchings by the Author
W F Wakeman, Dublin, 1832
£70.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Looking Backward (2000—1887), or, Life in the Year 2000 A.D.
A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel
Edward Bellamy
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
War Injuries of the Chest
1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea
H Morriston Davies, and Robert Coope (editors)
E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942
£10.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
United Nations Peacekeeping 1946–1967, Documents and Commentary
Vol 1: The Middle East (1969), Vol 2. Asia (1970), with a signed card from the author, Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins
Oxford University Press, London, 1969
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Night Field (2000) by David Holt
A large original abstract oil painting, 76 × 101cm
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2000
£100.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War (with signed letters)
Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell
Martin Gilbert
John Murray, London, 2006
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, A Record Obsession (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt
John Pettitt
The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Maria, Beyond the Callas Legend (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
£20.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An album of 162 medal ribbons, British & Foreign, and 37 black & white photographs
Collected in 1939/40 by a member of the 82nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Ribbons ranging from mid-Victorian to the 1930s
Not stated, owned by Gnr A S Abrams, RA, and pieced together by Capt D W Warren
Not Published, United Kingdom, 1940
£180.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Handwritten
The Omnipresence of The Deity, A Poem
1828, fifth edition in the same year as the first edition of this popular religious poem
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Maunder, London, 1828
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Jim Braidy, The Story of Britain's Fireman
1943, illustrated with paintings by Fireman Artists
Stephen Spender, with William Sansom and James Gordon
Lindsay Drummond, London, 1943
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Theatrical Companion to Coward
A Pictorial Record of the Theatrical Works of Noel Coward (2000, 2nd ed)
Raymond Mander, and Joe Mitchenson, updated by Barry Day and Sheridan Morley, with an appreciation by Terence Rattigan
Oberon Books, London, 2000
£15.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Reimagining Britain, Foundations for Hope (Signed copy)
Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur
Justin Welby
Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Pessach Haggadah, Service for the First Nights of Passover
1934, third edition, a scarce early printing of this edition, illustrated with music supplement
Dr Joseph Loewy, and Joseph Guens, from the original drafts of M Kunstadt
Shapiro, Vallentine & Co, London, 1934
£50.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Illustrated
