Recent Additions
The Bounty of the Gods, A Study in Points of View (1910)
and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)
Lady Helen Forbes
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Echo
Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fundamental Problems of Marxism
1941, this copy owned and signed by architect & planner, Graeme Shankland
G V Plekhanov, edited by D Ryazanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1941
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Transatlantic Review 9
1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson
J F McCrindle, editor
Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Soft Cover | First Editions
Studies in Revolution
1950, E H Carr's essays on Proudhon, Herzen, Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin etc
E H Carr
Macmillan, London, 1950
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
A small collection of a 1930s / 1940s amateur magician's paper ephemera
Howard J Rutter, including wartime concerts
Howard J Rutter
Not Published, Various, 1939
£20.00
Magic | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Function of Literature
A Study of Christoper Caudwell's Aesthetics
David N Margolies
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1969
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The West Indian Experience in British Schools
Multi-Racial Education and Social Disadvantage in London
Raymond Giles
Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1977
£15.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
A War-torn Chester Parish
St Werburgh's before, during and after the Great War
Ann Marie Curtis, et al
Scotforth Books, 2017
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Art in the Light of Conscience (Signed copy)
Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated & edited by Angela Livingstone
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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
£80.00
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
£20.00
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
£25.00
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
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
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
