Recent Additions
Beat (Signed copy)
Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)
Mrs Stanley Wrench
Duckworth & Co, London, 1917
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Danger Tree (Signed copy)
1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy
Olivia Manning, dustwrapper by Albert Runciman Cummings
The Book Club, London, 1980
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus
Lest We Forget, A War Anthology
1915, an early collection of WW1 verse
H B Elliott, editor, foreword by Baroness Orczy
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915
£14.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
The Betrothal, or The Blue Bird Chooses
1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird
Maurice Maeterlinck
Methuen, London, 1919
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke
This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Master Class
The first Greek edition of Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas
Terrence McNally, translated by Marios Ploritis
Kastaniotis, Athens, 1997
£10.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Last Inspection
1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories
Alun Lewis
Macmillan, New York, 1943
£24.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Records of the Churches, Rectory and Vicarage of Upton-Cum-Chalvey
1886, a Buckinghamshire parish history, with 14 albumen prints
The Rev Pownoll W Phipps
Charles Luff, Slough, 1886
£80.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Self-Management and the Trade Unions in Some Yugoslav Enterprises
A report from the National Union of Miners (Kent Area) 1971
Jack Dunn, and John Thirkell
The Workers' Educational Association, Rochester, 1971
£12.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Angela Carter, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Victor Gollancz, London, 1982
£12.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Dawn and Sunset Gold, Poems of Love and Nature (Signed copy)
Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry
Samuel J Looker
S J Looker, Clapton, 1920
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Quarrelsome Dog, Translated Freely from the German
c1858, a cautionary tale from Clara de Chatelain, with 12 hand-coloured illustrations
Leopold Wray, pseud. Clara de Chatelain
William Engelmann, Leipzig, 1858
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Die verratene Revolution
1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War
Sebastian Haffner
Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Identity Crisis of Sri Lankan Muslims
A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka
R Vasundhara Mohan
Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987
£15.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Twilight of World Capitalism
1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism
William Z Foster
International Publishers, New York, 1949
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
A second printing of G Bernard Shaw's treatise, published as Fabian Tract No 45
George Bernard Shaw
The Fabian Society, London, 1895
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
On Alien Rule and Self-Government
A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz
John Plamenatz
Longmans, London, 1960
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century
A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...
Michael Szenberg, with Lall Ramrattan and Aron A Gottesman (editors), foreword by Kenneth J Arrow
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Indignant Heart
1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'
Charles Denby, originally written as Matthew Ward
Pluto Press, London, 1979
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Joey (1980, first edition)
An uncommon book dealing with children and their foster families
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer, afterword by Esther Rantzen
William Heinemann, London, 1980
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia
1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs
Clement M Doke
George G. Harrap, London, 1931
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Trotskyism after Trotsky
Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists
Tony Cliff
Bookmarks, London, 1999
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
Serbian Legacy
Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia
Cecil Stewart
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Work and Wages (Signed copies)
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'
Sydney J Chapman, with an introduction by Lord Brassey
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate
A Waste of Rice, Spondee Discovers Marriage
1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life
Spondee, pseud. Caryl Brahms, frontispiece by J P Sayer
Denis Archer, London, 1933
£21.50
Humour | Hard Cover | First Editions
