Recent Additions

1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird

Methuen, London, 1919

1884, quarter leather binding, illustrated throughout

George Bell & Sons, London, 1884

No 21 in Cecil Woolf's Bloomsbury Heritage series

Cecil Woolf, London, 1998

This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine

Faber & Faber, London, 1946

The first Greek edition of Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas

Kastaniotis, Athens, 1997

1921, first edition in 2 volumes, both signed by Montessori School founder and educationalist Phyllis Wallbank

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1921

1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories

Macmillan, New York, 1943

1965, from the library of John Tofts White

Vivian Ridler, Oxford, 1965

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