Recent Additions
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
