The list below represents a selection of collectable books we currently have in the shop.

As stock is always changing, if you are looking for a book which is not listed, please do contact us with the details of the publication you are looking for.




1. Iain Banks "The Bridge"
London; Macmillan 1986 first edition. Fine in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £90.00.


2. Alan Sillitoe "Barbarians and other poems"
London; Turret Books 1973. A limited edition of 500, this being one of the first 100 to be signed by Sillitoe. Fine in near fine dust-jacket with 10mm. nick and small mark to front where original price sticker was. £30.00.


3. Alan Sillitoe "Shaman and other poems"
London; Turret Books 1968. A limited edition of 500 copies, this being one of the first hundred to be signed by Sillitoe. Fine in fine dust-jacket, protected with clear plastic cover. £40.00.


4. Bertholt Brecht "Collected Plays Volume 6 iii Mr. Puntilla and his Man Matti"
London; Methuen 1987. Fine in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £10.00.


5. Ian Fleming "You Only Live Twice"
London; Jonathan Cape 1964. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, otherwise very good in price-clipped, chipped dust-jacket, (designed by Richard Chopping) with darkened edges where there has been sellotape at some time. £


6. Dezo Hoffman "John Lennon"
London; Columbus Books 1985. First edition. Fine in unclipped fine dustwrapper Written by Norman Jopling. £30.00


7. Brigitte Bardot "And God Created Woman"


8. George Speaight "The Book Of Clowns"
London; Sidgwick & Jackson 1980. First edition. Fine in very good unclipped dust-jacket(two 20mm. tears repaired with sellotape. £50.00


9. Edward Booth-Clibborn "My Father and Edward Ardizzone"
London; Patrick Hardy Books 1983. First edition. Illustrated with Ardizzone christmas cards. Fine in spine-faded else fine unclipped dust-jacket. £20.00


10. Ann Buck "Dress in 18th Century England"
London; B. T. Batsford 1979. First edition. Very good in very good, price-clipped dust-jacket. £30.00


11. Gordon Beningfield "Beningfield’s Countryside"
London; Allen Lane 1980. First edition. Very good in very good, unclipped dust-jacket. Including envelope inside with cutting (dated 10.5.82.) detailing issue of Beningfield’s four butterfly stamps and the four stamps. £20.00


12. Donald Jackson "The story of Writing"
London; Studio Vista 1981. First edition. Fine in spine-faded, else fine, unclipped dust-jacket. £15.00


13. Raymond Lister "The Paintings 0f Samuel Palmer"
Cambridge; University Press1985. First edition. Fine in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £40.00


14. Susan Hayman "Edward Lear in the Levant"
Travels in Albania, Greece and Turkey in Europe, 1848-1849. London, John Murray 1988. First edition. Fine in fine, unclipped dust-jacket. £40.00


15. Madeleine Ginsburg "An Introduction to Fashion Illustration"
Joint publication – The Victoria and Albert Museum, Compton Press and Pitman Publishing 1980. First edition. Fine condition with decorated boards. £10.00


16. Phillis Cunnington and Alan Masefield "English Costume for Sports and Recreation"
From the 16th to the 19th centuries. London; A & C Black 1969. First edition. Ex-library. Good in good, protected dust-jacket. £35.00


17. Bernard Shaw "The adventures of the Black Girl in the Search for her God"
London; Constable & Co. 1932 December reprint. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Edges rubbed and some light foxing, else good. £12.50


18. Kurt Vonnegut "Hocus Pocus"
London; Jonathan Cape 1990. First edition. Very good in very good unclipped dust-jacket. £10.00


19. Elspeth Huxley "the Flame Trees of Thika"
Memories of an African Childhood. London; Chatto & Windus 1959. First edition. Good in heavily-taped else good dust-jacket. £20.00


20. W. MacQueen-Pope "The Melodies Linger on"
The Story of Music Hall. London;W.H.Allen. Some light foxing to top edges else very good in rubbed, chipped and price-clipped else very good dust-jacket. £15.00


21. George Seaver "Albert Schweitzer"
The Man and his Mind. London; A & C Black 1947. First edition. Good in cellophane-wrapped good dust-jacket missing small piece at top of spine. £10.00


22. Georgette Heyer "The Nonesuch"
London; Heinemann 1962. First edition. Very good in very good dust-jacket. £14.00


23. Jean Genet "Our lady of the Flowers"
London; Anthony Blond 1964. First english translation of gallimard edition. Very good in good protected dust-jacket (small triangular piece at top corner of spine and front cover missing). £9.50


24. Angela Carter "Wise Children"
London; Chatto & Windus 1991. First edition. Very good in very good unclipped dust-jacket.


25. George Macbeth "Another Love Story"
London; Bloomsbury 1991. First edition. Very good in very good (10mm. tear to top edge) dust-jacket. £6.50


26. Salman Rushdie "East, West"
London; Jonathan Cape 1994. First edition. Cutting from Sunday Times 2.10.94. with review, near fine in unclipped near fine dust-jacket.


27. Salman Rushdie "The Moor’s Last Sigh"
London; Jonathan Cape 1995.First edition. Cutting from Time 26.02.04. with review, near fine in near fine dust-jacket. £7.50


28. W.B. Yeats "Stories of Red Hanrahan: The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica"


29. Lady Gregory "Cuchulain of Muirthemne"


30. Gerald Scarfe "Scarfe"
London; Hamish Hamilton 1986. First edition. Fine in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £25.00


31. Gerald Scarfe "Scarfe’s Seven Deadly Sins"
London; Hamish Hamilton 1987. First edition. Fine in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £30.00


32. David Cordingly "Marine Painting" in England 1700-1900.
London; Studio Vista 1974. First edition. Some v. light foxing to front and top edges else very good in fine unclipped dust-jacket. £18.00


33. Ronald Searle "Something in the Cellar"
London; Souvenir Press 1986. First edition. Near fine in very good unclipped dust-jacket. £12.00