Summer
Our seasonal selection gathers the best new arrivals to our shelves, including charming photographs of Christopher Robin Milne with his grandfather and teddy bear and a specially bound copy of Tales After Tea owned by Enid Blyton.
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FLEMING, Ian. Dr No.London : 1958
First edition, first impression, of the sixth Bond book and the first to be turned into a film, which was released in 1962 and starred Sean Connery. Learn More -
ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.London : 2000
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the dedication page in black ink. First bought by Peter Harrington in 2000, this copy has been in the previous owner's possession for over 25 years.
The fourth Harry Potter book was the first to receive significant media attention and a midnight release. To meet unprecedented initial... Learn More -
DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.London : 1977
First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Ross, Love Roald Dahl, Oct. 22 1977". This is one of the earliest dated inscriptions for this book we have seen.
Written for a slightly older readership than his other works, the collection includes two semi-autobiographical stories, in turn based on Dahl's experience as... Learn More -
HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest.London : 1993
Limited 40th anniversary edition, number 433 of 500 copies signed by ten of the surviving mountaineers from Hillary's 1953 expedition. They include John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, Alf Gregory, Charles Wylie, George Lowe, Michael Ward, George Band, and Michael Westmacott. Learn More -
HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Law, Legislation and Liberty.London : 1973-79
First UK editions of each volume of Hayek's last major work of social philosophy, published over a seven-year period. In many ways the culmination of his philosophical career, Law, Legislation and Liberty was Hayek's most extensive philosophical analysis of the structure of society, the nature of justice, and the underlying principles of... Learn More -
BABITZ, Eve. Black Swans.New York : 1993
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the actor Harold Hesseman and his wife Caroline on the front free endpaper: "Dearest Howard & Caroline, Happy book! Love, Eve Baz xoxo". Black Swans captures the changing landscape of 1980s Hollywood, underpinned with "a bittersweet acceptance that no party, no matter how high the high,... Learn More -
HAY, Michael. Bentley: The Vintage Years.London : 1986
First edition, limited issue, number 39 of 200 copies finely bound in full morocco. Hay gives a lavish and comprehensive overview of Bentley cars in the company's first 12 years, from 1919 to 1931. This period saw the production of some of their most iconic cars and the company's greatest successes in motor racing.
A trade issue in cloth... Learn More -
DOWSON, Aubrey (ed.). The Women's Suffrage Cookery Book.London : [c.1909]
First edition of this cookbook compiled by the Birmingham chapter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The collection blends domestic instruction with political purpose, and contains a variety of culinary, medicinal, and household recipes contributed by suffragists around the country.
The book concludes with the... Learn More -
YEATS, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole.Dundrum : 1917
First edition, inscribed by the poet on the first blank, "Inscribed to Carroll Carstairs by W. B. Yeats, Jan 15 1933". This is one of 400 copies of Yeats's major collection, including the title poem and "On Being Asked for a War Poem".
An American art dealer, Carroll Carstairs (1888-1948) first met Yeats in December 1913, when they stayed... Learn More -
HYDE, Robert Wilson. Original calligraphy illumination.[c.1915]
An illumination on vellum, transcribing Richard Le Gallienne's short poem "My Books". The designer and craftsman Robert Wilson Hyde (1875-1951) is known for his illuminations in the American arts and crafts style.
Born in Indiana, Hyde settled in Santa Barbara in 1902. His speciality was "a revival of the quaint though laborious art of the... Learn More -
SUMNER, Lloyd. Computer Art and Human Response.Charlottesville, Virginia : 1968
First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Pat, Lloyd Sumner, 20 Feb 69", two months after publication. This anthology was the first of its kind, presenting over 60 computer-generated illustrations as art in their own right. The book collects Sumner's most significant works, each of which is accompanied by a meditation... Learn More -
BOCHOŘÁKOVÁ-DITTRICHOVÁ, Helena. Indiáni jindy a dnes. Kniha dřevorytů. (Indians Then and Now. A Book of Woodcuts.)Hranice & Brno : 1934
Signed limited edition, number 48 of 100 copies signed by the artist. It is additionally inscribed by the publisher to the Slovakian gay rights campaigner Imrich Matyas on the limitation page, "Milemu priteli, Imrichu Matyasovi, srdecne, Jozka H. Vanoce 1934" ("To my dear friend, Imrich Matyas, warmly, Joseph Hladky, Christmas 1934").
Based... Learn More -
FUCHI, Arihiro (ed.). Moshi: Riku-shi somoku choju chugyoso zukai ("An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Animals and Plants from the Classic of Poetry").Kyoto : 1779
First edition, featuring over 200 animals and plants. The fifth volume introduces cultural products of the Zhou period (c. 1046-771 BCE) including musical instruments like the zither, clothing such as the Chinese imperial crown, and the fundamentals of astronomy.
This work is based on Maoshi caomu niaoshou chongyu shu, a treatise written by... Learn More -
LENNON, John. A Spaniard in the Works.London : 1965
First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, and scarce thus, of this collection of humorous and nonsensical stories, poems, and drawings. Of particular interest is the poem "Our Dad" (pp. 83-5), which provides a poignant insight into Lennon's relationship with his father, who left the family when Lennon was a boy only to... Learn More -
QUENEAU, Raymond. L'Instant Fatal.Paris : 1948
First trade edition, service de presse copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to his longtime friend and collaborator, "A Georges Bataille, cordialement, Queneau". The editor's compliments card is loosely inserted.
While Queneau met and briefly joined the Surrealists, his friendship with Bataille developed later, when he... Learn More -
AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility.London : 1908
First deluxe Brock edition, a lovely, bright copy in the publisher's vellum. Charles Brock and his brother Henry were the first to illustrate Austen's world with colour plates, producing an edition together in 1898. Almost a decade later, Dent commissioned Charles alone to produce fresh illustrations for their "Series of English Idylls", which... Learn More -
WORLD WAR I; MEDICAL. A photo album recording the First British Red Cross Serbian Mission during the First World War.[Various places : c. 1915]
An interesting record of British involvement in the south-eastern front, with photographs captured in the field. The British Red Cross arrived in Uskub (now Skopje in North Macedonia) in 1914 and spent the following year treating the wounded and typhus sufferers. The photographs show their journey, the hospitals, doctors, and patients, and the... Learn More -
SOLT, Mary Ellen (ed.). Concrete Poetry: A World View.Bloomington : 1963
First edition of this collection of international concrete poetry, "considered one of the major anthologies of the form" (New York Times). This volume explores the origins of concrete poetry in the work of experimental writers from Europe and Brazil.
Mary Ellen Solt pens the comprehensive introduction in which she explores the origins of... Learn More -
FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem.Hanover, New Hampshire : 1955
Signed limited edition, number 281 of 750 copies signed by the poet. This copy is additionally inscribed by Frost on the front free endpaper, "To George Cohn, from his old old friend in memory of good talks, Robert Frost, Cambridge Mass., 13 Jan 1956". This is the first separate edition of his celebrated poem, first published in 1923.
The... Learn More -
DAHL, Roald. George's Marvellous Medicine.London : 1981
First edition, inscribed on the front free endpaper in black, "for David, with all my regards & appreciation. Quentin. 2011", and additionally signed by the illustrator on the title page.
The book "owes something to a circus act or a Punch and Judy show", and Quentin Blake "lightens things by visually reminding the reader both how small... Learn More
