Recent Additions
Notes on the History of Shipbuilding in South Shields 1746–1946
First edition, with appendices
Amy C Flagg
South Tyneside Borough Council, 1979
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Diaspora Blues, A View of Israel (Signed copy)
Signed by Clive Sinclair. The first edition, 1987.
Clive Sinclair
William Heinemann, London, 1987
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Graham Ison: four signed first edition thrillers
Confirm or Deny, The Home Secretary Will See You Now, Lost or Found, and Jack in the Box
Graham Ison
Various, London and New York, n.d.
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Genes, Cells and Brains (Signed copy)
Signed by both Hilary & Steven Rose. The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Hilary Rose, and Steven Rose
Verso, London, 2012
£15.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Metroburbia, The Anatomy of Greater London (2017)
together with London: Architecture, Building and Social Change (2015)—two studies of the metropolis by Paul Knox
Paul L Knox
Merrell, London, 2017
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Duenna (Signed by Nigel Playfair)
This edition issued for his production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with an introduction by Nigel Playfair, and illustrations by George Sheringham
Constable, London, 1925
£20.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Plotters (Signed copy)
Signed by Un-Su Kim, a numbered limited edition with black sprayed edges
Un-Su Kim
Fourth Estate, London, 2019
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Birthday Gift for Boys and Girls
1861, Victorian stories in a gilt decorative binding
William Martin, though published anonymously
Darton & Co, London, 1861
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
Moonshine, Dreamworks Artists... After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Christophe Lautrette and with a hand-drawn cartoon
Christophe Lautrette, and Pierre Olivier Vincent (editors)
Design Studio Press, Culver City, CA, 2010
£30.00
Art | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Same Old Story
Uncorrected proof copy of Robert Nye's stories, published as The Facts of Life
Robert Nye
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Historical Scrap Book
Cassell's 1886 collection of engravings from history
Not stated
Cassell, London, 1886
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Slant of the Pen
1980, a study of racism in children's books
Roy Preiswerk, editor
World Council of Churches, Geneva, 1980
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
Singled Out (Signed copy)
Hardback, signed by Virginia Nicholson, How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
Virginia Nicholson
Penguin / Viking, London, 2007
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
The developments of the Gothic novel from the 18th to the late 19th centuries
Patrick R O'Malley
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
£40.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover
Bomb Culture
1968, a first hardback edition of Jeff Nuttall's exploration of 1960s alternative society and counterculture
Jeff Nuttall
MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1968
£37.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Britannia Magazine, Vol XL, No 134. Easter 1926
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1926
£15.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
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 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
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 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
