Recent Additions
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
Christ Church, Madras, Parish Magazine 1928
Church notices, short stories, home help, adverts...
Christ Church, Madras
Not stated, Madras (Chennai), 1928
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Mirror for Narcissus
1956, the second volume of Negley Farson's autobiography
Negley Farson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1956
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rambles Round London Town
1891, a late Victorian tour of London sights
C L Mateaux
Cassell, London, 1891
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
David Gentleman's London (Signed copy)
1985, signed by David Gentleman
David Gentleman
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Oeuvres de Crebillon
1812, in a Simier R. du Roi binding, and plates by Clement Marillier
Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
P Didot L'Aine, Paris, 1812
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate
Original Architectural Drawing for a Proposed Youth Hostel in the Lake District
1946, with colour perspective, elevations, and floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1946
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original architect's drawing for a stone carver's workshop in the Cotswolds
1947, with watercolour image and floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original architect's drawing for the design of a Public Library
1947, by a student architect, with colour elevations and a floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
The White Riders
One of Monica Edwards's Romney Marsh stories
Monica Edwards
John Goodchild Publishers, Wendover, 1984
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Fine Companion
The Journal of a Caravan Trip from Oxford to Stratford-Upon-Avon in the Summer of 1914
Hilary Clare, editor
The EJO Society, Romsey, 2011
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First Editions
Redheads at the Chalet School
2011, paperback, No 52 in the Chalet School series
Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Girls Gone By Publishers, Coleford, 2011
£12.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First thus
Thomas Stothard
The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England circa 1800
Shelley M Bennett
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1988
Sold
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Over the Range (Signed copy)
Signed by Ion L Idriess, 'Sunshine and Shadows in the Kimberleys'
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Garrick Club
1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies
C K Adams, compiler
The Garrick Club, London, 1936
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Heart of the Heartless World
Essays in Cultural Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann
David Margolies, and Maroula Joannou
Pluto Press, London, 1995
£10.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, Violin and Viola (Signed copy)
Signed by Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner, and Léon Goossens
Yehudi Menuhin, and William Primrose
Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1976
£40.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Elke Einsmann, Bilder aus 3 Jahren (Signed copy)
Signed by Elke Einsmann, illustrated throughout in colour
Elke Einsmann, mit texten von Dino Larese und Ina Stegen
Hirondelle, Dusseldorf, 2011
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Aspects of Dialectical Materialism
1934, first edition, six essays by J D Bernal, Ralph Fox, R Page Arnot etc
J D Bernal, with H Levy, John MacMurray, Ralph Fox, R Page Arnot, and E F Carritt
Watts & Co, London, 1934
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Church Music in the Metropolis
1884, first edition, a study of London's church music
Charles Box
William Reeves, London, 1884
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
Things to Make in the Clubroom
1937, A Book for Scouts, Guides, Cubs, Brownies and Woodcraft Folk
Henry Bramford
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1937
£20.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Secret of Japanese Success (Signed copy)
Signed by J Hagiwara, his lecture given in Glasgow in 1906
J Hagiwara
Japanese Consulate, Glasgow, 1906
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Robert Hugh Benson, Pretre et Romancier 1871–1914
Agnes de La Gorce's 1928 biography of the Priest and novelist
Agnes de La Gorce
Librairie Plon, Paris, 1928
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Adventures of a Pretty Woman
1927, a romance from Florence Warden
Florence Warden
Benman's, London, 1927
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
