Recent Additions
Destroyer from America (Signed first edition)
1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties
John Fernald, illustrated by John Worsley
Jonathan Cape, London, 1942
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Commissioning Contemporary Art (Signed first edition)
Signed by Louisa Buck. A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists
Louisa Buck, and Daniel McClean
Thames and Hudson, London, 2012
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Ian McCulloch, Camden Arts Centre exhibition
A slim brochure which opens to be the exhibition poster
Ian McCulloch
Camden Arts Centre, London, 1986
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover
The Curse of Khatra (1947, first edition)
One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics
T C H Jacobs
Stanley Paul, London, 1947
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Two Invitations from Squadron Leader Damodar Madhao Oka
1951, from the Indian Air Force pilot to a British RPAF officer
Damodar Madhao Oka
Indian Air Force, Karachi, 1951
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Treatises on Architecture and Building (1832)
William Hosking's text from the Encyclopaedia Britannia, with 27 plates
William Hosking
Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1832
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Expert Cigarette Magic (1932, first edition)
With Demon's Head bookseller ticket from L Davenport
D Deveen, with a foreword by Oswald Williams
Edward Bagshawe, London, 1932
£15.00
Magic | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Alexander Pushkin, Selected Works: Poetry and Prose
2 volumes, from Moscow's Progress Publishers (1979)
Alexander Pushkin, and various translators
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1979
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume LXIV, January to June 1794
with 18 plates, all present
Sylvanus Urban, pseud. Edward Cave
John Nichols, London, 1794
£80.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism (1752)
Bolingbroke's political essays, including "on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First"
Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingb
A Millar, London, 1752
£60.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Original secret telegram Royal Pakistan Air Force 1951
"Ops Imm" from the RPAF Staging Post in Mauripur
Royal Pakistan Air Force
Royal Pakistan Air Force, Mauripur, 1951
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Royal Auxiliary Air Force Officers' Coronation Ball 1953
Original invitation and menu from The Savoy, signed by aircraft designer Sir Roy Hardy Dobson
Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Royal Auxiliary Air Force, London, 1953
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947–1964
First UK edition of the first instalment of Susan Sontag's diaries
Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Hamish Hamilton, London, 2009
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Original invitation from Liaquat Ali Khan, March 1951
A rare original document from Pakistan's history
Liaquat Ali Khan
Government of Pakistan, 1951
£40.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Original invitation from Khwaja Nazimuddin, February 1951
To a Garden Party at the Governor-General's House in Karachi
Khwaja Nazimuddin
Government of Pakistan, Karachi, 1951
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Original 1959 signed Official Secrets Act (RAF)
Signed by Squadron Leader P L Kelly of No. 35 Maintenance Unit prior to retirement
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force, 1959
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Gwelf, The Survival Guide (Signed first edition)
Signed by Larry MacDougall
Larry MacDougall
Eye of Newt Books, Toronto, 2021
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Defence of London 1915–1918
1924, third edition of Rawlinson's account of the Zeppelin and Gotha raids on London
Augustus Rawlinson, with an introduction by Admiral Sir Percy Scott
Andrew Melrose, London, 1924
£22.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Shenandoah Valley Campaign 1861–1862
A Study of the Strategy and Tactics of the Campaign, with Six Maps. Illustrating the Principles of War, Battles Described
Alexander Kearsey
Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1952
£15.00
Military & War | Soft Cover
Samphire Hoe by Maggie Holt (1997)
A superb watercolour of the Dover country park
Maggie Holt
Original Artwork, Kent, 1997
£40.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Chalk Quarry by David Holt (1982)
A large original oil painting in the style of the British Neo-Romantic tradition
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1982
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
A Season in Hell (Signed first edition)
1989, signed by Jack Higgins to a photographic bookplate
Jack Higgins
Collins, London, 1989
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Palace for the Buckinghams (1963, first edition)
Malcolm Saville's fourth Buckingham novel
Malcolm Saville
Evans Brothers, London, 1963
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Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The New British Traveller; or, a Modern Panorama of England and Wales
1819, volume 1, Bedfordshire to Cumberland, with 8 maps and 10 engraved plates
James Dugdale
J Robins, London, 1819
£60.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
Double Edge (Signed copy)
First paperback edition, signed by Dennis Etchison
Dennis Etchison
Dell, New York, 1997
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
