Recent Additions

1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism

International Publishers, New York, 1949

A second printing of G Bernard Shaw's treatise, published as Fabian Tract No 45

The Fabian Society, London, 1895

A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz

Longmans, London, 1960

A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

Pluto Press, London, 1979

An uncommon book dealing with children and their foster families

William Heinemann, London, 1980

1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs

George G. Harrap, London, 1931

Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists

Bookmarks, London, 1999

Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959

Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904

1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life

Denis Archer, London, 1933

First edition, a history of the drink from its first distillation in Barbados

William Heinemann, London, 1983

Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"

Orbis, London, 1979

The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1979

Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974

2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations

Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008

An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...

Hills, London, 1936

including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner

Various, London, n.d.

A vibrant, colourful original abstract framed oil on canvas

Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1994

Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate

George Allen, Orpington, 1898

A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920

1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea

E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942

A large original abstract oil painting, 76 × 101cm

Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2000

Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell

John Murray, London, 2006