Recent Additions

1886, a Buckinghamshire parish history, with 14 albumen prints

Charles Luff, Slough, 1886

First edition, signed by both authors, Pat Murphy and Nell McCafferty

Attic Press, Dublin, 1986

A report from the National Union of Miners (Kent Area) 1971

The Workers' Educational Association, Rochester, 1971

Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman

Victor Gollancz, London, 1982

Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry

S J Looker, Clapton, 1920

and the Impact of 1066

A Colonnade Book / British Museum, London, 1984

1968, two volumes: biography, critical commentary, catalogue raisonne, and plates

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1968

c1858, a cautionary tale from Clara de Chatelain, with 12 hand-coloured illustrations

William Engelmann, Leipzig, 1858

1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War

Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969

A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka

Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987

1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism

International Publishers, New York, 1949

A second printing of G Bernard Shaw's treatise, published as Fabian Tract No 45

The Fabian Society, London, 1895

A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz

Longmans, London, 1960

A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

Pluto Press, London, 1979

Constantine Tsoucalas's assessment of the Greek political situation (1969)

Penguin Books, London, 1969

An uncommon title dealing with children and their foster families

William Heinemann, London, 1980

1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs

George G. Harrap, London, 1931

This copy signed by Ida Cook, the romantic novelist who helped rescue 29 Jews from Nazi Germany

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984

Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists

Bookmarks, London, 1999

Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959

1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower

Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934

Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904

1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951

Merlin Press, London, 1968

1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life

Denis Archer, London, 1933