ANTHROPOLOGY
E. Pritchard, The Nuer, OUP, 1940 £12.50
Joy Adamson, The Peoples of Kenya, Collins, 1967 £8.50
ANTIQUES, ARCHITECTURE, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, DESIGN
Antique Porcelain Book £8.50
W. A. Poucher, Escape to the Hills, Country Life £8.50 - SOLD
Helen Allingham, Cottage Houses of England, Bracken Books, 1978 £6.00
Staffordshire Portrait Figures, Antique Collectors Club, 1970 £12.50 - SOLD
E. J. Wall, The Dictionary of Photography, Iliffe & Sons £6.00
Colette Mansell, The Collector's Guide to British Dolls since 1920, Robert Hale, 1983 £8.50
Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, B.T. Batsford, 1950 £15.00 - SOLD
Bryan Catley, Art Deco Figures, Chancery House, 1978 £10.00 - SOLD
Gertrude Jekyll, Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life, 1927 £32.50
Chartres: the making of a miracle, Folio Society, 1986 £4.50
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPY/MEMOIRS
More Biography £6.50
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Gollancz £7.50
Joan of Arc, Sheed & Ward, 1930 £6.00 - SOLD
Charles Rowe, A Quaker Boy Growing Up, 1961 £7.50
Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: a Biography (vol 1), Chatto Collins, 1973 £4.50
Diana Cooper, The Light of Common Day, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959 £12.50 - SOLD
Diana Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960 - SOLD
Fonteyn, Spring Books, c.1950 £4.50
Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, Bodley Head, 1964 £10.00
Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Cresset Press, 1949 £6.00
The Life of General Gordon, Walter Scott, 1878 £8.50 - SOLD
L.T.C. Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Longmans, 1964 £12.50 - SOLD
L.T.C. Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Book Club Associates, 1971 (7th impression) £4.50
Ian Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, Faber, 1997 £15.00 - SOLD
Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson, Faber, 1st English edition, 2 volumes £18.00
Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939-41, Heinemann, 1983 £7.50
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Princess Elizabeth’s Gift Book, Hodder & Stoughton £4.50
Girl Annual no. 2 £5.00
Elsie J. Oxenham, Schoolgirl Jen of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
Elsie J. Oxenham, Song of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
Beatrix Potter, The Complete Tales, Warne, 2006 £27.50 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Gimlet Lends a Hand, Brocks Books, 1949 £15.00
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, Macmillan, 1983 facsimile reprint £4.50 - SOLD
Beatrix Potter, The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Warne, boxed set - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Comrades in Arms, Hodder & Stoughton, 1947 1st edition £6.50 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Biggles Hunts Big Game, Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd impression 1950 £4.00
W. E. Johns, Biggles: The Second Case, Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd impression 1950 £6.00 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Biggles Fails to Return, Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd impression 1951 £4.00 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Biggles Sweeps the Desert, Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd impression 1950 £4.00 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Biggles in the South Seas, Oxford £4.00
W. E. Johns, Biggles Sees it Through, Oxford, 1951 £4.00
C. S. Lewis, The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, Collins £8.50 - SOLD
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1981 facsimile reprint £7.50
Leonard de Vries, Flowers of Delight, Dobson, 1965 £8.50
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, Spring Books, 1989 fascimile £7.50
M. Lawson Bell, Tales from Beatrix Potter, Warne, 2006 £27.50 - SOLD
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Thomas Campbell, The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Warne & Routledge, 1859 £45.00 - SOLD
The Works of William Shakespeare, Albion Edition, Frederick Warne £22.50 - SOLD
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Black £4.00 - SOLD
Plato, The Republic, Everyman's Library £3.00 - SOLD
Lytton Strachey, Old Victorians, Chatto & Windus, 1924 £5.00 - SOLD
Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Barnes and Noble, 1971 £10.00 - SOLD
FICTION (NOVELS and SHORT STORIES)
Judge Parry, Don Quixote, illustrated by Walter Crane, Blackie & Son, 1900 £25.00 - SOLD
J-K Huysmans, Against the Grain, Fortune Press, 1950 £25.00 - SOLD
Baroness Orczy, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Cassell, 1926 £5.00 - SOLD
Franz Kafka, Description of a Struggle, Secker & Warburg, 1960 (ex-library) £6.50
Jean Plaidy, The Regent’s Daughter, Robert Hale 1971 (first edition) £5.00
L. Van der Post, A Far-off Place, Hogarth Press, 1974 £6.50 - SOLD
Howard Fast, Spartacus, Bodley Head, 1968 (5th edition) £15.00 - SOLD
William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Smith Elder, 1869 2 volumes £35.00
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Nelson £6.50
Pierre C de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782 1 volume 1st edition £65.00
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Putnams, 1955 (lacking dust wrapper) £15.00
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Easton Press, 1997 £12.50
FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS
English Stories £4.50 - SOLD
Book of Short Novels £5.00 - SOLD
Irish Short Stories £4.50 - SOLD
R. S. Surtees, Jorrocks' Jaunts, 1949 £3.00
Tim Heald, ed., The Best After Dinner Stories £4.00
Beverley Nichols, Down the Garden Path £4.50 - SOLD
John Donne, No Man is an Island £4.50
The Plums of P. G. Wodehouse £4.50
The Pick of Punch £4.50
The Cream of Noel Coward £4.50
Ovid, The Art of Love £4.50 - SOLD
Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams £5.00 - SOLD
Anthony Trollope, Cousin Henry £5.00 - SOLD
Herodotus, The Histories £7.50 - SOLD
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped £7.50 - SOLD
Hilaire Belloc, CautionaryTales £6.50 - SOLD
The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes £4.50
Boccaccio, The Decameron (2 volumes), 1953 £8.00
Robert Graves, The Greek Myths £10.00 - SOLD
The Wit of Oscar Wilde £6.00 - SOLD
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 2009, illustrations by Charles Van Sandwyk £25.00 - SOLD
A Treasury of Mark Twain £4.50
The Face of Battle £6.00
An Innkeeper's Diary £4.50
French Short Stories £4.50
Rare Adventures of William Lithgow £5.00
Anthology of Autobiography £4.50
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper £5.00
Our Village £5.00
Brief Lives £5.00
The Jubilee Years £5.00
Life on the Mississippi £5.00
J. B. Priestley, English Journey £6.50
Bestiary £5.00
Our Life in the Highlands £4.00
Historic Speeches £4.50
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby £7.50
Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm £6.00
Jerome K. Jerome, My Life and Times £6.50
The Smith of Smiths £4.50 - SOLD
The Quest for Corvo £4.50
Little Book of Forewords £4.00
Historic Speeches (further copy) £4.50
Memoirs of a Seafaring Life £5.00
Shakespeare's Life and World £6.00
The Boer War £7.00
The Amateur Emigrant £4.50
Scott's Last Expedition £6.50 - SOLD
The Grand Tour £4.50- SOLD
Short Novels from the Strand £6.00 - SOLD
Nicholas and Alexandra £7.50 - SOLD
Father Brown Stories £4.50 - SOLD
William Russell £7.50 - SOLD
FORESTRY, FARMING, LAND MANAGEMENT
Ian Niall, The Poacher's Handbook, Heinemann, 1950 (1st edition, illustrated B. Greg) £6.00 - SOLD
V. C. Fishwick, Pigs, Crosby, 1948 £5.00
HISTORY
Nancy Mitford, Voltaire in Love, Hamish Hamilton, 1957 £35.00 - SOLD
John W. Dodds, The Age of Paradox, Gollancz, 1953 £4.50
LOCAL HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
Sydney Jones, Thames Triumphant £3.50 - SOLD
J. Farbrother, Shepton Mallet: notes on its history, ancient, descriptive and natural, Arthur Byrt, 1860 £35.00 - SOLD
N. Pevsner, Herefordshire, Penguin, 1953 £15.00 - SOLD
N. Pevsner, Leicestershire and Rutland, Penguin, 1960 £15.00 - SOLD
N. Pevsner, Leicestershire and Rutland, Penguin, 1973 £6.50 - SOLD
N. Pevsner, North East Norfolk, Penguin, 1962 £12.50 - SOLD
N. Pevsner, North Somerset and Bristol, Penguin, 1958 £12.50
N. Pevsner, South and West Somerset, Penguin, 1958 £17.50
N. Pevsner, Surrey, Penguin, 1952 £15.00
N. Pevsner, Warwickshire, Penguin, 1966 £12.50
N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, Penguin,1963 £17.50 - SOLD
J. Simmons, Leicester Past and Present, Eyre Methuen, 1974 £6.50 - SOLD
W. G. Hoskins, Shell Guide to Leicestershire, Shell, 1970 £8.50 - SOLD
E. Storey, The Fen Country, Robert Hale, 1971 (signed) £6.50 - SOLD
W.H. Potts, Roaming Down the Wye, Hodder & Stoughton, 1949 £4.50 - SOLD
Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath, The Heritage of Rutland Water, Rutland Local History Society, 2008 £30.00 - SOLD
John Betjeman, Cornwall Shell Guide, Faber, 1969 £7.50 - SOLD
Alfred Harvey, Leicestershire and Rutland, Methuen, 1912 £6.50 - SOLD
John Barber, The Story of Oakham School, Sycamore Press, 1983 £8.50 - SOLD
John Barber, The Story of Oakham School, Sycamore Press, 1983 £20.00
Crichton Porteous, Portrait of Peakland, Robert Hale, 1963 £4.50
G. Ornsby, Sketches of Durham, George Andrews, 1846, bound together with: T. Bell, Local Monuments, T & J Pigg, 1856; Bruce Collingwood, The Wall of Hadrian, A. Reid, 1874; and E. Charlton, Society in Northumberland in the 18th Century, A. Reid, 1874 £85.00
Jean Lang, A Land of Romance - The Border: its history and legend, T C and E C Jack, 1930 £7.50
William Sitwell, The Border from a Soldier's Point of View £10.00
MILITARY HISTORY/MARITIME
Frank Carr, The Yachtsman’s England, Seely Service, c.1950s £5.00
Len Deighton, Blitzkrieg, Jonathan Cape, 1979 (first edition) £8.50 - SOLD
Len Deighton, Fighter, Jonathan Cape, 1977 (1st edition) £5.00 - SOLD
Winston Churchill, The Second World War, 6-volume set, Reprint Society, 1950 £12.00 - SOLD
Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Cassell, 6-volume set, 4 first editions £65.00 - SOLD
G. Phillips, Rutland and the Great War, Padfield, 2014 reprint £20.00 - SOLD
K. Langmaid, The Sea Thine Enemy, Jarrolds, 1966 £4.50 - SOLD
Fred T. Jane, The British Battle Fleet, Vol. II, Library Press, 1915 £8.50 - SOLD
Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, Collins, 1966 £25.00
The U-Boat War, HMSO, 1989 reprint £12.50 - SOLD
David Chandler, Marlborough Military Commander, Military Books, 1973 £12.50
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Truman Capote, Other Voices Other Rooms, Heinemann, 1948 (first edition lacking dust wrapper) £10.00 - SOLD
W. Somerset Maugham, The Partial View, Heinemann, 1954 (first edition lacking dust wrapper) £7.50 - SOLD
Dirk Bogarde, A Gentle Occupation, Chatto & Windus, 1980 (first edition) £6.50
NATURAL HISTORY
The Scallop, Shell £6.50
The Countryman's Bedside Book, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941 (illus. Watkins Pitchford) £5.50 - SOLD
Edward Step, Animal Life of the British Isles, Warne, 1948 £6.00 - SOLD
Wood & Pycraft, The British Bird Book, A & C Black, 1921 £8.50 - SOLD
Charles Tunnicliffe, Shorelands Summer Diary, Holloway, 1984 £7.50 - SOLD
PASTIMES, HANDICRAFTS, TECHNICAL SKILLS
John Wilding, 30 Hour Alarm Clock £25.00
Hugard, Expert Card Technique, Faber, 1954 £22.50
B. E. Jones, The Practical Woodworker (4 volumes), Waverley £35.00 - SOLD
Harris, Model Stationary and Marine Steam Engines, Model and Allied, 1969 £6.50 - SOLD
Vita Sackville-West, In Your Garden, Oxenwood Press, 1996 facsimile reprint £15.00 - SOLD
Dion Clayton Calthrop, The Charm of Gardens, A & C Black, 1911 £6.50 - SOLD
H.E. Dudeney, A Puzzle Mine, Nelson, c.1940 £4.00 - SOLD
PHILOSOPHY
J. Ruskin, Unto this Last, George Allen, 1902 £15.00
POETRY and DRAMA
Acting Games, University of London Press, 1946 £3.50
Robert Herrick, Collected Poems, 1906 £45.00
Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry, Nonesuch, 1938 (first edition) £15.00 - SOLD
The Poems of Ossian (W. Sharp intro), John Grant, 1926 £6.00 - SOLD
Samuel Beckett, Endgame, Faber, 1958 (1st English edition) £28.00 - SOLD
Louisa Stuart Costello, The Rose Garden of Persia, Foulis, 1913 £25.00 - SOLD
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, OUP, 1921 £15.00 - SOLD
C. S. Lewis, Narrative Poems, Geoffrey Bles, 1969 (first edition) £18.00 - SOLD
Robert Graves, The Song of Songs, Collins, 1973 (illustrated by Hans Erni) £6.50 - SOLD
Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, Faber, 1976 paperback reprint £4.00
Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office, Macmillan, 1914 first edition £16.50 - SOLD
John Milton, Poetical Works, Warne (half green calf) £6.50 - SOLD
John Donne, The Complete English Poems, Everyman's Library £3.00
John Milton, The Complete English Poems, Everyman's Library £3.00
Robert Service, Songs of a Sourdough, Briggs, 1909 £6.50 - SOLD
Gilbert and Sullivan, Songs of Two Savoyards, Routledge, 1892 £8.50
R.H. Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, Cadell & Davies, 1808 (first edition) £110.00
The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, 1807 £25.00
REFERENCE
N. Webster, Webster's Dictionary, Collins, 1861 £30.00 - SOLD
Ruth Richardson, Vintage Papers from The Lancet, 2006 £10.00 - SOLD
Brooke-Little, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Bloomsbury, 1985 £8.50
Frank Adam, The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands, Johnston and Bacon, 8th edition 1970 £6.50
RELIGION
W. Farrar, The Life and Works of St Paul, Cassell, 1885 £20.00 - SOLD
SCIENCE
E.P. Poulton, Taylor's Practice of Medicine, Churchill, 1930 student prize £12.50 - SOLD
SOCIAL HISTORY
John Arlott, The Snuff Shop, Michael Joseph, 1974 £8.50 - SOLD
Ian Bevan, Top of the Bill: the story of the London Palladium, Muller, 1952 £12.50
Pontefract and Hartley, Yorkshire Heritage, Dent, 1950 £6.00 - SOLD
Winston Churchill, The Island Race, Cassell, 1954 £8.50
Edmund Burke, The History of Archery, Heinemann, 1956 £12.50 - SOLD
A.Haley, Roots, Doubleday (early edition) £6.50 - SOLD
Williamson, The Story of a Norfolk Farm, Faber, 1948 £5.00 - SOLD
John Austen, Historical Note on Old Sheffield Druggists, 1961 £6.00
Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, E P Publishing, facsimile reprint 1973 £12.50
SPORTS AND GAMES
G. R. Gent, Aldin Book of Outdoor Games, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933 £5.00 - SOLD
Vivian Bailey, Come Fishing and Shooting, 1961 (first edition) £4.50 - SOLD
Tani Yukio, The Art of Ju-Jitsu, Foulsham, sm. pb. c.1960 £5.50
Jim Clark, Jim Clark at the Wheel, Arthur Barker, 1964 (ex Boots Library) £10.00 - SOLD
G. Gauld, Jim Clark. Portrait of a Great Driver, Hamlyn, 1968 £4.50 - SOLD
Crascredo, Horse Sense and Sensibility, Country Life, 2nd impression 1927 £6.50
TRAVEL, MOUNTAINEERING AND EXPLORATION
Pompeo Molmenti, Venice, Medici Society £4.00
I Wilson, Indian Excursion, Travel Book Club, 1964 £4.50 - SOLD
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 (first edition in very good dust wrapper) £27.50