Recent Additions

Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"

Thames and Hudson, London, 1994

2nd edition, a fine collection of Great War verse

Martin Hopkinson, London, 1923

1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens

Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931

1905, taken from the writings of Wellington, Napoleon, Clausewitz etc

Hugh Rees Ltd, London, 1905

1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press

The Beaumont Press, London, 1930

1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry

Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937

Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943

Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert

Methuen, London, 1931

A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930

1973, a reissue of Blunden's 1954 edition, with a new bibliographical note by Leonard Clark

Chatto & Windus, London, 1973

Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book

James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940

1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland

Heath Cranton, London, 1939

1952, A G Street's novel of farming loosely based on the case of farmer George Walden

Faber & Faber, London, 1952

Signed by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt to Bomber Command veteran Les King, DFM

Viking, London, 1985

A 1971 printing from the Collected Edition of George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, London, 1971

including an article on Lithobolio, a New England Poltergeist of 1692

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1937

1916, first edition, fifteen tales from R B Cunninghame Graham

Duckworth & Co, London, 1916

Signed by Mary Visick

Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1958

1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper

Secker & Warburg, London, 1946

Imogen Holst's biography of her husband

Oxford University Press, London, 1974

The reminsicences of the opera impresario, James Henry Mapleson, complete in two volumes

Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1888

Two volumes, including supplement of 1841–1919 Additions and Corrections 1919–1951

The College, Cheltenham, 1928

Greek soprano Marika Palaisti's swipe at Maria Callas

Not stated, Greece, 1962

1972 1st thus, Lenin's Preparatory Material for the Book 'The State and Revolution'

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972

1942, the second printing of Purohit Swami's magnificent translation

Faber & Faber, London, 1942