Recent Additions
After You with the Pistol
The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Secker & Warburg, London, 1979
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ray Atkins, Recent realist paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Ray Atkins
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
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Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hepher, paintings, reliefs and collages, of interiors and exteriors
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
David Hepher, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Marc Chagall, en Terre Promise
2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations
Francois Chapon
Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Bon Mot; A Calendar of Scintillating Wisdom
An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...
Not stated
Hills, London, 1936
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Blue Cockerel (1994) by David Holt
A vibrant, colourful original abstract framed oil on canvas
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 1994
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David Holt Paintings | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate
Looking Backward (2000—1887), or, Life in the Year 2000 A.D.
A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel
Edward Bellamy
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
War Injuries of the Chest
1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea
H Morriston Davies, and Robert Coope (editors)
E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942
£10.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Night Field (2000) by David Holt
A large original abstract oil painting, 76 × 101cm
David Holt
Original Artwork, Hythe, Kent, 2000
£100.00
David Holt Paintings | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War (with signed letters)
Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell
Martin Gilbert
John Murray, London, 2006
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, A Record Obsession (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt
John Pettitt
The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Maria, Beyond the Callas Legend (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
£20.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£18.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Post Office London Directory with County Suburbs for 1916
Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1916
£170.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover
Seven volumes of Great War poetry
Including Robert W Service, Rupert Brooke and war-time anthologies
Various, including Robert W Service & Rupert Brooke
Various, London etc, n.d.
£28.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
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Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Summer's Fancy
1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press
Edmund Blunden, decorations by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
An Elegy and Other Poems
1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Anthology of War Poetry 1914–1918
Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War
Robert Nichols
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Tantivy Towers, A Light Opera in Three Acts (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert
A P Herbert
Methuen, London, 1931
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
Douaumont, or the Return of the Soldier Ulysses
A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
Eberhard Wolfgang Moeller / Möller, translated by Graham and Tristan Rawson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1930
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
