Recent Additions
Monet and Architecture
2018, how architecture and buildings feature in Monet's paintings
Richard Thomson
National Gallery, London, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lambeth's Open Spaces
An Historical Account
Marie P G Draper
London Borough of Lambeth, London, 1979
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions
Handling a Low-Powered Steamer in a Revolving Storm
A 1929 prize-winning essay
Captain J S Commander
Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
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
£15.00
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
£22.50
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
£15.00
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
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
Education, 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
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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
£20.00
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
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
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Association Copy
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
The Old Contemptibles, Mons to Ypres 1914 (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Brice
Beatrix Brice, pseudonym of Beatrix Charlotte Mary Gull
Old Contemptibles Association, London, 1939
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | 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
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
