Recent Additions
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
Roll of Honour, Arbroath and District 1939–1945
with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties
Marion Angus, foreword
T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£22.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (Signed copy)
Signed by Kathryn Tucker Windham, Margaret Gillis Figh, and Jeffrey (Mrs Windham's resident ghost)
Kathryn Tucker Windham, and Margaret Gillis Figh, cover design & illustrations by Delores Eskins Atkins
The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, 1971
£35.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Post Office London Directory with County Suburbs for 1916
Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1916
£170.00
Genealogy & Family HIstory | Hard Cover
Seven volumes of Great War poetry
Including Robert W Service, Rupert Brooke and war-time anthologies
Various, including Robert W Service & Rupert Brooke
Various, London etc, n.d.
£28.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Popular Customs, Sports, and Recollections of the South of Italy (1846)
bound with A Visit to the Western Coast of Norway (1848)
Charles MacFarlane, and Wilhelm Wittich
Charles Knight, London, 1846
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Valour & Vision, Poems of the War 1914–18
2nd edition, a fine collection of Great War verse
Jacqueline Trotter, editor
Martin Hopkinson, London, 1923
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maxims of War
1905, taken from the writings of Wellington, Napoleon, Clausewitz etc
Maurice V Brett
Hugh Rees Ltd, London, 1905
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Summer's Fancy
1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press
Edmund Blunden, decorations by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
An Elegy and Other Poems
1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Anthology of War Poetry 1914–1918
Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War
Robert Nichols
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Tantivy Towers, A Light Opera in Three Acts (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert
A P Herbert
Methuen, London, 1931
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
Douaumont, or the Return of the Soldier Ulysses
A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
Eberhard Wolfgang Moeller / Möller, translated by Graham and Tristan Rawson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1930
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems of Ivor Gurney 1890–1937
1973, a reissue of Blunden's 1954 edition, with a new bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Ivor Gurney, with an introduction by Edmund Blunden and a bibliographical note by Leonard Clark
Chatto & Windus, London, 1973
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Poems of Love and War
Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book
John Barron Mays
James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Actor, Soldier, Poet
1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland
Robert Henderson-Bland, with an appreciation by General Sir Hubert Gough
Heath Cranton, London, 1939
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Shameful Harvest
1952, A G Street's novel of farming loosely based on the case of farmer George Walden
A G Street, dustwrapper by Edwin La Dell
Faber & Faber, London, 1952
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Bomber Command War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt to Bomber Command veteran Les King, DFM
Martin Middlebrook, and Chris Everitt
Viking, London, 1985
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Animal Farm, A Fairy Story
A 1971 printing from the Collected Edition of George Orwell
George Orwell
Secker & Warburg, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
