Recent Additions
Prince Otto, A Romance
1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chatto & Windus, London, 1906
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Kings of Space
1954, first edition, an adventure for W E John's Group-Captain Timothy 'Tiger' Clinton
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Stead
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Man Who Vanished into Space
1963, first edition, another adventure for W E John's spaceship Tavona.
Captain W E Johns
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sir Thomas Beecham, A Centenary Tribute (Signed copy)
Signed by Lady Shirley Beecham
Alan Jefferson, foreword by Sir Robert Mayer
World Records, London, 1979
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Ten Books by Andre Maurois
Uniformly bound in red / brown cloth, all early French language editions
Andre Maurois
Various, Paris, 1922
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover
Alice in Wonderland
A rather kitsch 1981 pop-up up
Lewis Carroll
Brown Watson, Barcelona, 1981
£20.00
Lewis Carroll | Soft Cover | First Editions
They Went
A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1920
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Idea for a Painting by David Holt (1999)
Original abstract oil painting in bespoke frame
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, 1999
£150.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Range 1: Military View (1970) by David Holt
An original abstract expressionist oil painting, framed, with Dungeness Power Station on the horizon
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, 1970
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Range 2: Blue Window (1970) by David Holt
An original abstract expressionist oil painting, framed. A work based on Hythe Rifle Ranges in Kent
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1970
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Black Hill by David Holt, December 2003
A large modern oil painting of British mythical landscape with standing stones
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2003
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David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Framed | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Mireio, Pouemo Prouvencau / Mireille, Poeme Provencal
Mistral's long poem in both French and Occitan, in a fine leather Hachette binding
Frederic Mistral
Bibliotheque Charpentier, Paris, 1926
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Binko's Blues, A Tale for Children of All Growths
1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding
Herman Charles Merivale, illustrated by Edgar Giberne
Chapman & Hall, London, 1884
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Vertical Log by David Holt (April 1972)
Original abstract expressionist oil painting, framed
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1972
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David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Contes Indiens
Indian folk tales. 1883, Les Trente-deux Recits du Trone (Batris-Sinhasan / Singhasan Battisi)
Leon Feer
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
2nd edition, a good selection covering 1837 to 1898
Morton N Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Macmillan, London, 1989
£15.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Automation and Industrial Relations (Signed copy)
First US edition, signed by the author, Edward B Shils
Edward B Shils
Holt, Reinhart & Winston, New York, 1963
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Mrs Ashton's New Pupil
The 1892 first US edition, published by Bradley & Woodruff.
Mrs S S Robbins, (Sarah Stuart Robbins)
Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1892
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
La Democrazia Cristiana e il Marxismo
1944, an Italian political discussion on Christian Democracy and Marxism
Mario Baronci, and Giuseppe Togni
Il Segno, Rome, 1944
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Littlest One (Signed copy)
1918, this copy signed and inscribed by Italia Conti, the actress and founder of the acting school
Marion St John Adcock, pseud. Mrs Sidney H Webb. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
Socialist History, the first fifteen issues 1993—1999
Edited by Willie Thompson et al, containing a wide range of articles
Willie Thompson, with David Parker, Mike Waite and David Morgan (editors)
Pluto Press, London, 1993
£60.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Passing of Beatrice
1932, first edition, Gertrude Leigh's Study in the Heterodoxy of Dante
Gertrude Leigh
Faber & Faber, London, 1932
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Presence of the Past
Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life—from the library of Sinhalese scholar C H B Reynolds
Steven Kemper
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, 1991
£14.95
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Schiller and Our Times
1933, first UK edition of Rudolf Steiner's 1905 lectures on Friedrich Schiller
Rudolf Steiner
H Collison, London, 1933
£25.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
Plenty
David Hare's critically acclaimed play, this edition from The Faber Library
David Hare
Faber & Faber, London, 1997
£12.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
