Recent Additions
After You with the Pistol
The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Secker & Warburg, London, 1979
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ray Atkins, Recent realist paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Ray Atkins
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hepher, paintings, reliefs and collages, of interiors and exteriors
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
David Hepher, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Marc Chagall, en Terre Promise
2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations
Francois Chapon
Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Bon Mot; A Calendar of Scintillating Wisdom
An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...
Not stated
Hills, London, 1936
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Blue Cockerel (1994) by David Holt
A vibrant, colourful original abstract framed oil on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1994
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David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate
Looking Backward (2000—1887), or, Life in the Year 2000 A.D.
A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel
Edward Bellamy
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
War Injuries of the Chest
1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea
H Morriston Davies, and Robert Coope (editors)
E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942
£10.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Night Field (2000) by David Holt
A large original abstract oil painting, 76 × 101cm
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2000
£100.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War (with signed letters)
Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell
Martin Gilbert
John Murray, London, 2006
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, A Record Obsession (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt
John Pettitt
The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Maria, Beyond the Callas Legend (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
£20.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Omnipresence of The Deity, A Poem
1828, fifth edition in the same year as the first edition of this popular religious poem
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Maunder, London, 1828
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Theatrical Companion to Coward
A Pictorial Record of the Theatrical Works of Noel Coward (2000, 2nd ed)
Raymond Mander, and Joe Mitchenson, updated by Barry Day and Sheridan Morley, with an appreciation by Terence Rattigan
Oberon Books, London, 2000
£15.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Reimagining Britain, Foundations for Hope (Signed copy)
Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur
Justin Welby
Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Roll of Honour, Arbroath and District 1939–1945
with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties
Marion Angus, foreword
T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£22.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Post Office London Directory with County Suburbs for 1916
Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1916
£170.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover
Seven volumes of Great War poetry
Including Robert W Service, Rupert Brooke and war-time anthologies
Various, including Robert W Service & Rupert Brooke
Various, London etc, n.d.
£28.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
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Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maxims of War
1905, taken from the writings of Wellington, Napoleon, Clausewitz etc
Maurice V Brett
Hugh Rees Ltd, London, 1905
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
