An interesting social history, which illuminates religious zeal and the medieval mind as it relates to the collection of, powers associated with, and myths and legends, around relics.

Publisher: Counstable, 1985, HB, DW, F

£10

This book charts the presence of people of African origin settling in Britain with the use of facsimile documents, newspaper extracts, paintings, prints and photographs.

Published by Heinemann Educational books. Large PB (Reprinted) 1981 Fine.

£20

An introduction to the Gnostic Coptic manuscripts discovered at Chenoboskion with an English translation and critical evaluation of the gospel according to St Thomas.

This is a prodigious collection of sacred Gnostic texts that were discovered in the late 1940s in a remote hamlet of upper Egypt.

Inner Traditions International. 1986. PB. 445 pages F/VG.

£10

Journeys and observations of a travelling circus in Ireland.

Interesting glossary of the back slang & other terms used by showmen.

Coloured frontispiece & 24 black & white plates illustrated by Seago.

Publisher: Putnam 1935. 219 pages

1st Edt HB VG

Bound in red cloth, gilt letters to the spine. Binding tight & solid. Light shelf wear. Slight light mark in the middle of the front board.

£150

A collection of five biographies regarding five Cornish characters.

Published: Channing Press, Dawlish. (private press) 1937 HB VG/F
47 pages & one page of adverts.

Green Cloth Covers. Contents clean and crisp with a frontispiece by Lindsay Cable. (other than small white mark near the front bottom right hand corner of the front cover)

£85

Published by The Channing Press, Dawlish. (Private press) 69 pages and one page of adverts.

Green Cloth boards. Undated circa 1937. HB. In fine condition.

Illustrated frontispiece by G.L Vicary.

£85

This book is a celebration and important social document of a way of life in rural Devon that tragically has almost disappeared. The atmospheric photographs capture the timeless rural world throughout the farming year within the village communities of North Devon.

Text by Robin Ravilious. Illustrated throughout from the evocative photographs of James Ravilious.

Publisher: Scolar Press, London, 1980, VG
Original pictorial laminated card covers.

Some light shelf and handling wear to the edges and spine of this large format paperback.

£35

Design is compiled by Brian Webb & Peyton Skipwith. Features the work of one the most celebrated poster designers of the 20th century.

Includes designs for advertising, wallpapers, posters, trade cards book jackets, theatre sets, costumes & textiles.

Published by the Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, 2007. HB. 95 pages. Fine in Dust Jacket

£12

London Transport and its antecedents had a design culture of great richness in the interwar years.

This book features the less known black & white illustrations of Bawden & Ravilious.

Publisher: Mainstone Press. 2006. Illustrated laminated card cover.
Large PB DJ VG

£25

Examining the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present day.

Cambridge University Press, PB. 2000. 434 pages. Fine.

£12.50

A collection of essays, documents and commentaries providing an authoritative re-examination of the major design initiative of the Britain Can Make It Exhibition of 1946.

Leicester University Press, 1997. PB. Some discreet underlining otherwise fine.

£12

A serious study with illustrations from film stills of the Italian Western known colloquially as the spaghetti western.

Lorrimer Publishing. 1975. PB . VG.

Some light scuff marks on the sides of the spine.

£12.50p

This anthology brings together extracts from autobiographies, slave narratives, unpublished letters, oral accounts and public records from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain.

Edinburgh University Press. Reprint 1995. PB Fine

£12.50

A major study of European tourism during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks revealing an important currant in the history of the modern concept of 'culture' in both elite and popular forms.

Oxford University Press. 1993. PB F

£20

A collection of 102 songs many of respectable antiquity going back 200 years collected by Colm O. Lochlainn.

Bound in cream paper-covered boards illustrated from a woodcut and lettered in red and green adorned with woodcuts from the original broadsheets, including musical notations.

Publisher: At the Sign of the Three Candles, Dublin, 1946. VG/F. HB

A slight nick into the right hand part of the spine.

£35

The second book about the marvellous ecological Wombles of Wimbledon Common.

Delightful illustrations by Oliver Chadwick.

Published by Ernest Benn Ltd 1970 HB VG/F DJ

The Dust Jacket is VG/F with a little shelf wear and a small tear in the bottom of the DJ at the back of the book otherwise a lovely copy.

£60

Jack Kerouac's private dream record, all his nights strung together producing the raw poetic material of the Kerouac saga, the substrata of his novels.

Publisher: City Lights Books, 1973 7th printing. PB. VG
Some light rubbing on the corners

£15

A investigation into the nature of the ballad and its traditions.

Gordian Press. 1974. HB. Fine.

£15

A wide ranging collection of sea shanties with the notation for the accompanying tunes.

Publisher: Robert Hale. 1989. DJ. Fine.

£12

An autobiography of Professor Walter Starkie, traveller, writer, linguist, musician, violinist, administrator and lecturer in Spanish, Italian and Irish Literature. From his childhood in Ireland to travelling with Hungarian gypsies as an itinerant fiddle player.

An unconventional book by an unconventional man.

Published by John Murray. 1963.
HB VG/F DJ.

£10

An interesting and scarce work of cultural analysis by David Forgacs. Chapters include'The spaces of culture' 'The reconstruction years' and 'Countercultures and concentrations'.

Published: Manchester University Press. 1990. HB DJ Fine

£75

A lucid study and synthesis of Jung's psychological concepts based on a mix of mythic tales.

Published: Shambhala 1992 PB F

£20

Jeremy Bentham was the founder of Philosophical Utilitarianism. Dr Ross Harrison has drawn on both previously unpublished work of Bentham and a wide range of published material to illustrate a study of the philosopher's thought. Includes the first extensive study of Bentham theory of meaning for fifty years.

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1983 First Edition. HB DJ F

£25

Contains a large collection of calls, figures and tunes relating to the Appalachian Mountains as a living tradition.

Illustrated with line drawings and photos of the dance moves. Includes a separate booklet of the music notation for "fiddlers" in a pocket at the back of the book.

Published by Berea College, Kentucky 1953 HB Fine

£40

Pierre Sorlin explores the way nations of Europe have expressed their cultural individuality through film.

Publisher: Routledge 1991 PB Fine

£10

Volume 15 of the collected works of Jung translated from the German by R. F. Hull.

Published : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1979.
In slightly worn dust jacket. HB VG/F

£35

Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with
Maria-Louise von Fraz.

Shambhala Publishing 1992 PB VG
Some slight shelf wear. £15

A comparative study of C. G. Jung & Paul Tillich.

Published: Inner City Books. 1981
DJ HB VG
Some shelf wear.

£15

Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull.

A creative interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology by a distinguished Jungian analyst.

Publisher: Pantheon Books. 1954
Bollinger Series No 17 HB DJ VG
DJ scuffed.

£30

Accessing the knight in the male psyche

A serious work dealing with masculine issues using depth psychology to explain how the properties of maleness as portrayed in mythic images play a part in men's emotional lives.

Publisher: William Morrow & co. 1992. DJ HB Fine

£25

From Biba to Warhole, flower power to psychedelia, this essential sourcebook has 200 original prints from the 1960s.

Exclusive illustrations and original artwork from designers and finished prints.

Published: Batsford 2008 Large PB VG

£20

Timeless stories of Irish fairy lore, wonder and the supernatural translated by Eileen O'Faolain who captures the artless poetry of an ancient language and culture. Illustrated by Trina Hyman.

Published: Longmans Green and Co. Ltd 1985 HB DJ VG/F
Some shelf wear.

£15

A booklet that is volume eighteen of the Amateur Entomologist. A succinct study and guide to breeding butterflies.

Illustrated with line drawings & black & white photos.

Published: The Amateur Entomologists' Society. 1984 PB Fine

£12.50

A booklet that is volume nineteen of the Amateur Entomologist. A succinct study and guide to breeding The British and European Hawk-Moths

Illustrated with line drawings & black & white photos.

Published: The Amateur Entomologists' Society. PB 1984 Fine

£15

These letters are considered to be very important to the development of Rilke and is very important to his greatest poetry.

Translated and with an introduction and commentary by Reginald Snell.

Published: Sidgwick and Jackson. DW 1950 4th impression PB VG
Very slight foxing to the edges of the title page.

£10

A book of pronunciation, anecdotes and local phraseology as well as a dictionary written towards the end of the 19th century.

Publisher: Elliot Stock 1892 HB VG

184pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges,
Inked mark on the front cover and back cover of an owners name.

£30

A book dealing with the churches within the deanery of Kenn, a village near Exeter describing the church furnishings and architecture as well as the history of the churches and the associated landowning families. Illustrated with photos and some line drawings.

Publisher: James G. Commin, Exeter, 1912. HB VG
192 pages. Plates. Original black cloth slightly chipped at the head of the spine.
End paper at the back of the book torn and a slight tear on the side of the spine otherwise nice tight copy.

£20

A history of the South Devon Ball Clay Industry illustrated with many photographs, line drawings and a map.

A full history explaining the changes over the last 200 years.

Publisher: David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974, DJ HB Fine.

£10

First edition of Tuer's reissue of the Minerva Press original of 1823, with an introduction by Andrew Tuer who mentions Ruskin, attributes the verses to members of the Sharpe family, the illustrations to R. Stennet.

Sixteen hand-coloured engraved plates printed one side of paper only.
Blue sky, printed brown paper wraps with hand-coloured garland.

Part of the Leadenhall Press Series of Forgotten Picture Books For Children.

Publisher: Field & Tuer, 1887 VG PB. Slight chip on the corner of both ends of the spine otherwise lovely, clean, bright copy.

£50

A collection of new and useful recipes in every branch of cookery.
Liebig was primarily in developing extracts of meat for making gravies and sauces.

Publisher: Liebig 1894 PB VG

Red cloth spine with illustrated boards - two ladies in kitchen to front, and Liebig's products to rear - both bright and clean.

£35

A well-researched and authoritative history of the Socialist International
from 1864 to 1943 in two volumes.

The standard work on socialist and labour movements with Appendixes, Bibliography and Indexes.

Published: Nelson 1967/68. DW HB Fine

£65

Excellent book of Archive Photographs with explanatory notes by Mr. Reg Watkiss, himself a fine Photographer and highly talented Gentleman and native of Penzance. 124 mono photos, including shipping and landscapes.

Signed, Inscribed and dated Jan 1977 by Reg Watkiss.

Published: Whites of Alverton, 1975. PB VG

£8.50p

A harmonious measure to the human scale universally applicable to architecture and mechanics.

Publisher: Faber 1961 PB VG

224pp, many figures, very good, wrappers slight shelf wear.

£25

This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) held at the Tate Gallery, London from
18 June to 31 July 1966.

Six colour plates (one folding) and black & white illustrations.

Publisher: The Arts Council, London, 1966. Large PB VG

Covers have general shelf wear with some rubbing to spine and light scuffing.

£25

The first book to ever record in detail the organisation, equipment, uniforms, flags and tactics of the armies of the Renaissance period of European history.
Fully illustrated with drawings and some photos. 128 pages.

Publisher: Patrick Stephens
1978 PB DJ Fine

£25

A wonderful illustrated book on the history of buttons written in Italian.

Published: Zanafi.
Second Edition 1995. HB DW Fine

£22.50

A descriptive and historical guide to all places of interest between Start Bay and the River Avon.

Illustrated with photographs and complete with a folding map at the back of the book.

Publisher: JAS FAIRWEATHER Salcombe.

No date but late 19th century

HB VG/F - Original green cloth lettered in gilt.

£35

An autobiography by W. C. Handy. An interesting and authentic account of the early days and emergence of the blues seen through the author's eyes as he was growing up in Alabama. Born in 1876 he later played with many bands, became a composer and song writer. His best known songs were Beale Street Blues and St Louis Blues.

Published: Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Sidgwick & Jackson 1961

HB VG DJ - A couple of small tears in the DJ.

£10

An illustrated guide to Ilfracombe and North Devon with notes on Lynmouth, Clovelly, Lundy and adjacent resorts. Includes a description of the journey by steamer from Bristol to Ilfracombe down the River Avon.

Illustrated with many photos including a folding photo of Ilfracombe and three maps as well as ten double page of adverts from Ilfracombe at the end of the book.

Publisher: E. Smith & Co. 4th Edition 1891 VG /F HB

Bound in red cloth with some faded gold lettering.

£45

A vivid and enlightening history of the slave trade written in 1973.

Jack Gratus shows how slavery was an integral part of the developing capitalist system in America and Europe.

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 1973 VG PB

£12.50