Recent Additions
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
Sold
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
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
Carlisle House, Carlisle Street, Soho, London
1936, a rare if brief history, in a fine Bickers & Son full leather binding
J Brooke Wilkinson, author identified by printed initials at end of text
British Board of Film Censors, London, 1936
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2
Mary Thomas
Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover
Hugh Walpole, handwritten signed letter
c1921, from York Terrace, NW1
Hugh Walpole
Not Published, London, 1921
£35.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
The Castles on the Ground
1973, 2nd ed, with a new set of illustrations by John Piper
J M Richards, illustrated by John Piper
John Murray, London, 1973
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Birds of Ancient Egypt
Patrick Houlihan's comprehensive study of the role of birds in Ancient Egypt
Patrick F Houlihan, with the collaboration of and preliminary checklist to the Birds of Egypt by Steven M Goodman
The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1988
£15.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus
The Encyclopedia of the Occult
1988, A compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism
Lewis Spence
Bracken Books, London, 1988
£25.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Flora
An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Volume 2
1885, ex-library but in strong readable condition
Charles Darwin
John Murray, London, 1885
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover
L'Art Mimique
1901, a rare first edition of Charles Aubert's book on mime
Charles Aubert
E Meuriot, Paris, 1901
£40.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
