Recent Additions
Bird of Ill Omen (with signed postcard)
A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography
Simon Raven, illustrated by Tim Jacques
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Collected Works of Yordan Yovkov
1956, complete in seven volumes, Bulgarian text
Yordan Yovkov, edited by Elka Yovkova et al
Bulgarian Writer, Sofia, 1956
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Matter of Britain
A L Morton's Essays in a Living Culture
A L Morton
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1966
£25.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Day the Call Came
1964, first UK printing of Thomas Hinde's classic thriller
Thomas Hinde
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1964
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Drake's Drum (Signed copy)
Signed by Draycot M Dell, the co-creator of the 1933 King Kong screenplay
Draycot M Dell
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1920
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Demon
A 1989 hardback reissue of Hubert Selby Jr's novel
Hubert Selby Jr
Marion Boyars, London, 1989
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Tunnel Trench, A Play in Three Acts
1924, a Great War play set in the Allied offensive of 1918
Hubert Griffith
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1924
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Unknown Warrior, A Tragedy in Three Acts
A Great War drama, Cecil Lewis's 1928 translation of Paul Raynal's anti-war play
Paul Raynal, translated by Cecil Lewis
Methuen, London, 1928
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Second Jungle Book
1901, an early printing in the uniform edition
Rudyard Kipling, with decorations by J Lockwood Kipling
Macmillan, London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Rupert Brooke, A Memoir
1918, the first separate edition of Edward Marsh's memoir
Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1918
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First thus
God Made Blind. Isaac Rosenberg, His Life and Poetry (Signed copy)
Signed by Deborah Maccoby
Deborah Maccoby
Symposium Press, 1998
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Four books on artist and poet Isaac Rosenberg
All are first editions
Various, including Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Joseph Cohen & Jean Liddiard
Various, London, 1975
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative
The radical American poet's second book, 1929
Walter Lowenfels, with a prefatory note by Humbert Wolfe
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Spy and his Masters
1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Golden Lotus
Clement Egerton's four volume translation of Chin P'ing Mei
Clement Egerton, his translation after Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (attrib)
Graham Brash, Singapore, 1980
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Slipcase
Red Square at Noon
1973, the first Penguin edition
Natalia Gorbanevskaya, translated by Alexander Lieven
Penguin Books, London, 1973
£10.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables
1929, first edition of Mackail's short stories
Denis Mackail
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£15.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 47, July to December 1884
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, including an early photo-lithograph of the Statue of Liberty
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1884
£50.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 45, July to December 1883
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, a remarkable sourcebook of Victorian architecture
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1883
£80.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Cyrano de Bergerac
1920, in an attractive quarter leather binding
Edmond Rostand
Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, Paris, 1920
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Beyond Khyber Pass
c1932, No 11 in Hutchinson's Booklover's Library
Lowell Thomas
Hutchinson, London, 1932
£12.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Glass Mender & other stories
Maurice Baring's tales, some with a supernatural element, illustrated by S.B.
Maurice Baring, illustrated by S.B.
William Heinemann, London, 1926
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Novels of Thomas Peacock
1948, Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle, and Gryll Grange
Thomas Peacock, edited by David Garnett. Dustwrapper by Joan Hassall.
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938, On the Edge of the Abyss of Time
This copy from the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Norbert Wolf
Taschen, Koln, 2003
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
