Recent Additions
The History of Romney Marsh from its Earliest Formation to 1837
1849, a rare first edition of the first history of the Marsh
William Holloway
John Russell Smith, London, 1849
£100.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
121st High Priest of the Samaritans (Signed)
Postcard signed by Yitzhaq II ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia
Not stated
Not stated, n.d.
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997
A series of essays
Carol Margaret Davison, editor
Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1997
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
Roman Antiquities: or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans
1792, the enlarged second edition of Alexander Adam's classic in an attractive marbled calf binding
Alexander Adam
A Strahan, T Cadell & W Creech, Edinburgh & London, 1792
£120.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Rambler's Recollections & Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer
Alfred Capper
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915
£40.00
Magic | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, with a handwritten letter from fellow-folklorist Barbara Lowe
Iona and Peter Opie
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Arnander
Christopher Arnander, editor
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Squad
1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War
James B Wharton
Coward-McCann, New York, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Old Contemptibles, Mons to Ypres 1914 (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Brice
Beatrix Brice
Old Contemptibles Association, London, 1939
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The four Sammy books
Ron & Atie van der Meer's My Brother Sammy, Sammy and Mara, Naughty Sammy, and Sammy and the Cat Party
Ron van der Meer, and Atie van der Meer
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
La Nekonata Konato (The Unknown Acquaintance) (Signed copy)
Signed by Douglas P Boatman, a mystery novel in Esperanto
Douglas P Boatman
Eldonejo TK, Kopenhago / Copenhagen, 1977
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Alcools
Apollinaire's collection of poetry from 1898–1913
Guillaume Apollinaire
Librairie Gallimard / NRF, Paris, 1946
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover
Peter de Francia, Modern Myths: Drawings from Four Decades
An exhibition booklet from New York, 2008
Dore Ashton, introductory essay
New York Studio School, New York, 2008
£25.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Mr John Carnegie's Application and Declaration Relating to Land at Fish Creek
An report from the Australian Government into land acquisition in Victoria
Australian Government
John Ferres, Melbourne, 1885
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Technique and Spirit of Fugue
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
George Oldroyd
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1949
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Unfigured Harmony
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
Percy C Buck
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1946
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Leather Bound
