All Old Books

Cecil Beaton's personal history of fashion and those who have influenced it in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Witty and wise, a most knowledgeable book about fashion and it's designers. Full of anecdotes and the authors own drawings and photographs.

Emett of Punch

£30.00

Engines, Aunties and Others

Whimsical and charming cartoons by Punch contributor Rowland Emett. Although published in wartime, this is British humour from perhaps a gentler age.

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A. Keiller

£65.00

The Personnel of The Aberdeenshire Witchcraft Covens 1596-7

A description of the witches and their covens who were tried and often executed in the Aberdeen trials of 1596-7. The book attempts to pass no judgement and rather relates the facts as discovered of a very far away time.

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Jane Toller

£12.00

Prisoners-Of-War Work 1756-1815

In the period covered by the book, several thousand French and Dutch prisoners of war were incarcerated in Great Britain. As funds were only provided for a very meagre food ration, prisoners without wealthy families turned to producing handicrafts to raise a little income. Markets were allowed in the prisons, and some of the work produced was of a very high quality, especially by those who had been artisans such as cabinet makers in civilian life. This book describes many of the typical wares produced, from wood, bone and horn to lace and model ships.

William Shakespeare

£35.00

Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet

Plays

In Shakespeare's longest play, Hamlet Prince of Denmark tries to exact revenge on his Uncle Claudius; who has killed Hamlet's father and married his mother to seize the throne.

Captain W. E. Johns

£55.00

The Rescue Flight

A Biggles adventure set over the battlefields of WW1. "The story tells of a plan formed by certain young flying officers for rescuing British prisoners from behind German lines, and of the astonishing adventures that befell them carrying it out."

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P.G. Wodehouse

£80.00

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves' disapproval of his master's new moustache threatens to cool the air between them. But as thunder clouds gather, the pair are once more united against a common enemy.

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Barbara Jones

£25.00

The Isle of Wight

A charming little guide to both some well-known and more hidden attractions of the Isle of Wight. From Osborne House to Newport Quay, Blackgang Chine Bazaar to Alum Bay and the St Lawrence Topiary boat. Please see our journal entry, "Island Quirks," for further elaboration.

Daphne du Maurier

£65.00

Frenchman's Creek

An Historical novel set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II. A court society lady meets a French pirate on the eponymous creek of her family's estate, and her life is changed forever. A classic tale of adventure and romance.

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Pamela Whitlock

£20.00

All Day Long, An Anthology of Poetry for Children

Children

An anthology of poems for children, compiled by Pamela Whitlock. Divided in to four sections to represent times of the day, from the early morning to bedtime. Although most of the poems were not specifically written for children, they are selected for their wide appeal, such as Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Elliot, and Night-song in the Jungle by Kipling. Includes biographical notes on the poets. Illustrated with woodcuts by Joan Hassall, some in colour.

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Iona and Peter Opie

£28.00

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book

Children

800 traditional rhymes and songs collected by Iona and Peter Opie.

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Andrew Lang

£30.00

Tales of a Fairy Court

Children

Original tales about the royal fairy court of Pantouflia, following the inhabitants adventures and encounters with giant humans

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James Baldwin

£150.00

Giovanni's Room

The story of an intense relationship between two young men, one an engaged American, the other an Italian barman, in 1950's Paris

Ernest Hemingway

£100.00

For Whom the Bell Tolls

"A novel of wartime Spain, in which a young American and a Spanish girl live a lifetime of love and courage in four momentous days, it speaks with final and unforgettable power for the truth - the truth of war and life in our time."

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Truman Capote

£180.00

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Introducing Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveller. Mixing fact with fabulous fiction in 1940's New York

P.G. Wodehouse

£40.00

Heavy Weather

When the Honourable Galahad Threepwood threatens to publish his reminiscences of youthful escapades, "A deputation of victims, headed by his sister, Lady Constance Keeble, did its utmost to suppress this book..."

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Christopher Isherwood

£90.00

Goodbye To Berlin

Isherwood's partly fictionalised account of his life as an English teacher in pre-war Berlin, the freedom of the cabarets set against the brutal rise of Nazism. Introducing the unforgettable Sally Bowles and landlady Frl. Schroeder.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

£40.00

The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld

Poetry