Recent Additions
Maria Callas, Transformations of an Art
A Greek illustrated study of the great Diva (Oi Metmorfoseis Mias Technis)
Vasilis Nikolaidis
Cedar, Athens, 1982
£40.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Silvester's Sensible Cookery
c1920 a guide to low budget cookery with Hints to the Servantless...
Elizabeth Silvester
Selfridge & Co, London, 1920
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
Beat (Signed copy)
Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)
Mrs Stanley Wrench
Duckworth & Co, London, 1917
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Lure of the Kelpie
1944, Helen Drever's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Highlands
Helen Drever
The Moray Press, Edinburgh, 1944
£24.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover
Plastik (Signed copy)
Signed by Jo Jastram, the German sculptor
Jo Jastram
Rheinland-Vlg, Germany, 1989
£50.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Danger Tree (Signed copy)
1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy
Olivia Manning, dustwrapper by Albert Runciman Cummings
The Book Club, London, 1980
£70.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Lest We Forget, A War Anthology
1915, an early collection of WW1 verse
H B Elliott, editor, foreword by Baroness Orczy
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915
£14.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
The Betrothal, or The Blue Bird Chooses
1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird
Maurice Maeterlinck
Methuen, London, 1919
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Webster's Complete Dictionary of the English Language
1884, quarter leather binding, illustrated throughout
Chauncey A Goodrich, and Noah Porter (editors), assisted Dr C A F Mahn
George Bell & Sons, London, 1884
£50.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Vanessa Bell, A Life of Painting
No 21 in Cecil Woolf's Bloomsbury Heritage series
Rachel Tranter
Cecil Woolf, London, 1998
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke
This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Master Class
The first Greek edition of Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas
Terrence McNally, translated by Marios Ploritis
Kastaniotis, Athens, 1997
£10.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Records of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield
1921, first edition in 2 volumes, both signed by Montessori School founder and educationalist Phyllis Wallbank
E A Webb
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1921
Sold
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Last Inspection
1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories
Alun Lewis
Macmillan, New York, 1943
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Silvered Armour of Henry VIII in the Tower of London
1965, from the library of John Tofts White
Claude Blair
Vivian Ridler, Oxford, 1965
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Records of the Churches, Rectory and Vicarage of Upton-Cum-Chalvey
1886, a Buckinghamshire parish history, with 14 albumen prints
The Rev Pownoll W Phipps
Charles Luff, Slough, 1886
£80.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Women in Focus; Contemporary Irish Women's Lives (Signed copy)
First edition, signed by both authors, Pat Murphy and Nell McCafferty
Pat Murphy, and Nell McCafferty
Attic Press, Dublin, 1986
£50.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Self-Management and the Trade Unions in Some Yugoslav Enterprises
A report from the National Union of Miners (Kent Area) 1971
Jack Dunn, and John Thirkell
The Workers' Educational Association, Rochester, 1971
£12.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Angela Carter, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Victor Gollancz, London, 1982
£12.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Dawn and Sunset Gold, Poems of Love and Nature (Signed copy)
Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry
Samuel J Looker
S J Looker, Clapton, 1920
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Women in Anglo-Saxon England
and the Impact of 1066
Christine Fell, with Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams
A Colonnade Book / British Museum, London, 1984
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Joseph Wright of Derby
1968, two volumes: biography, critical commentary, catalogue raisonne, and plates
Benedict Nicolson
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1968
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Quarrelsome Dog, Translated Freely from the German
c1858, a cautionary tale from Clara de Chatelain, with 12 hand-coloured illustrations
Leopold Wray, pseud. Clara de Chatelain
William Engelmann, Leipzig, 1858
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Die verratene Revolution
1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War
Sebastian Haffner
Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Identity Crisis of Sri Lankan Muslims
A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka
R Vasundhara Mohan
Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987
£15.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
