Recent Additions
Eight Weeks; Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Baroness Lola Young
Baroness Lola Young
Fig Tree, Penguin, London, 2024
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Erotic Tales of Old Russia
1988, bilingual edition, and quite fruity...
Aleksander Afanas'ev, compiler, selected and translated by Yury Perkov, illustrated by Alek Rapoport
Scythian Books, Oakland, 1988
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Illustrated
Range Targets: Evening by David Holt (1976)
A superb Modern British semi-abstract oil painting
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1976
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
After The Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi
Donald V Coers, with Paul D Ruffin and Robert J DeMott (editors)
Ohio University Press, Athens, 1995
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia (Signed copy)
Signed by Paul Willetts, The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross
Paul Willetts
Dewi Lewis, London, 2003
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
A History of Man in the Lake District
1967, from the Neolithic period to the National Park
William Rollinson
J M Dent, London, 1967
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Reader's Handbook to Proust
1952, first edition, An Index Guide to Remembrance of Things Past
P A Spalding, compiler
Chatto & Windus, London, 1952
£20.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Seagull and Sea-Power
1937, a novel in the footsteps of Erskine Childers' Dulcibella and the Frisian Islands
Douglas and Mary Dixon
William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1937
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Autobiography of a Cad
1938, a first printing of A G Macdonell's hilarious spoof memoir of a complete rotter
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Al Khaleej and Beyond: Reflections of Two Artists (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Lawrence & Mike Shepley
Peter Lawrence, and Mike Shepley
Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 2007
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Great Church Towers of England
Chiefly of the Perpendicular Period. 1932, first edition in dustwrapper
Frank J Allen
University Press, Cambridge, 1932
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Buildings of England: Sussex
2001, Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guide in excellent condition
Ian Nairn, and Nikolaus Pevsner
Penguin Books, London, 2001
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset
2001, Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guide in excellent condition
Nikolaus Pevsner
Penguin Books, London, 2001
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire
2002, Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guide in excellent condition.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2002
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
The Buildings of England: Dorset
2002, John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guide in excellent condition.
John Newman, and Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2002
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
The Buildings of England. Yorkshire, The North Riding
2002, one of Pevsner's Guides in excellent condition.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2002
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
Hawkshead, Its History, Archaeology, Industries, Folklore, Dialect, etc
1899, a first edition of H S Cowper's history of the Lake District parish
Henry Swainson Cowper
Bemrose & Sons, London, 1899
£120.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Helbeck of Bannisdale
1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance
Mrs Humphrey Ward
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Vagabond's Way, Haphazard Wanderings on the Fells
1914, a first edition of the English actresses tour of the Lake District
Nancy Price, illustrated by A S Hartrick
John Murray, London, 1914
£30.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
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
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
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
