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You are welcome to search our fiction books for sale as well as latest titles.| Title | Author | Edition | Description | Price(£) |
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| "Here it is" Knowledge of London with Routes for Drivers | 1958 | 1 volume. This guide to learning the Knowledge for aspiring London taxi drivers in the 1950s has details of routes, public buildings, markets, restaurants and schools and other landmarks and places of interest. The Knowledge is still in use today and taxi drivers in central London have to learn 320 routes.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| American Penmanship 1800-1850 | Nash, Ray | 1969 | A history of writing and a bibliography of copybooks from Jenkins to Spencer. Published by the American Antiquarian Society. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 |
| An Introduction to Turner's Southern Coast | 1929 | Includes a catalogue of the engravings with a description of the image, full details of the engraver's proofs and reprints. Please note that there are no reproductions of the engravings. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Art of the Miniature Painter | WILLIAMSON, Percy | 1926 | Overview of the methods, materials and work of exponents of the form over the centuries, with advice to the modern novice. Many illustrations in b&w, but frontispiece missing. | 4.00 |
| Art of the Pencil | 1905-1946 | 2 volumes. Covering the techniques of drawing with a pencil and humorist whose medium it is including: Max Beerbohm, Linely Sambourne and F Carruthers Gould. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Assorted Artists of the C19th and early C20th. | 1895-1924 | 8 volumes.Artists include: Aubrey Beardsley,William Quiller Orchardson,Winnifred Matthews, John La Farge, Ambrose McEvoy, Sir Charles Holmes and Sir EJ Poynter. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 26.00 | |
| Atlas of Britain of Britain and Northern Ireland | 1963 | This atlas maps the resources, climate and geology of Britain in the middle of the C20th. It has detailed maps of the distribution of coniferous woodland, pigs, diary cattle, and also of mortailiity, administrative boundaries and telephone trunk traffic.Please note that this book is oversize.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Atlases:an assortment | 1970-89 | 7 volumes. Various atlases covering the world's wildlife, oceans and railways, and also the USA, the universe and astronomy. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Ballet: an Assortment | 1952-1962 | 4 volumes including the 1964 Ballet Annual, a dictionary of ballet terms, and a catalogue of films featuring ballet and classical dance. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 4.00 | |
| Beast and the Monk: a life of Charles Kingsley | CHITTY, Susan | 1974 | Biography of one of the 19th century's liveliest minds; churchman, theologian, geologist, naturalist and writer. | 2.00 |
| Beatles diary Volume 2:1970-2001 (R) * | 2001 | Meticulous day-by-day account of what the four members of the Beatles did after they split up, from concerts to court appearances. Paperback. | 3.00 | |
| Birds of the world by Les Beletsky (R) * | 2006 | This book describes every single bird family in the world, illustrating them with paintings of 1600 birds. Hardback | 4.50 | |
| Black's Medical Dictionary ed. G Macpherson | 1995 | 38th edition of a compact work with 4500 medical terms and concepts, aimed at all concerned with medicine and health care.Hardback | 2.50 | |
| Blue guides to Athens, Australia, Belgium and Luxenbourg, Denmark, Literary Britain and Ireland, London and Southern Spain | 1964-94 | An assortment of the classic Blue Guides. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Bowls, Cricket, Golf and a History of C20th Sport | 1959-1995 | 4 volumes including encyclopaedias of bowls and of golf, and an A-Z of cricket. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | BREWER | 1999 | The Millennium Edition, edited by Adrian Room | 7.50 |
| Britain: Land, Heritage and Events | 1983-1996 | 3 volumes. Includes a pictorial atlas of the land and its heritage, Debrett's guide to what to see, and the coastline from the air. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| British Architecture and Building Materials | 1953-61 | 3 volumes covering English domestic architecture, the history of building materials and John Summerson's Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings catalogues | 1898-1962 | 12 volumes. Covering British drawings, German and Flemish woodcuts, and Italian drawings.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 50.00 | |
| British Theatre | 1901-1954 | 7 volumes including the Dramatic List, a history of pantomine, a dramatic bibliography and a dictionary of theatrical terms. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| British Union-Catalogue of Early Music of Music Printed Before 1801 | 1957 | 2 volumes. A record of the holdings of over one hundred libraries throughout the British Isles.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Bygone Britain 1900-1970 (R) * | 1995 | 6 volumes covering transport, leisure and holidays, the home, news, work and play. Featuring contemporary advertisements and newspaper cuttings from local and national newspapers and magazines. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Bygone Surrey edited by George Clinch | 1895 | Brief random collection of writings about Surrey history, including dialects, customs and buildings. Refers to Lambeth, Croydon and Southwark as well as further out of London. Hardback. | 4.00 | |
| Caldecott's "Graphic" Pictures | 1898 | 1 volume. Randolph Caldecott's cartoons and illustrations from the Graphic magazine. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Cambridge Guide to the Theatre by Martin Banham | 1995 | This encyclopedic one-volume reference work on world theatre has 3500 entries from Henry Abbey to Carl Zuckmayer. Hardback | 5.00 | |
| Caravan and Camping Guide to Britain & Ireland 2011 | CARAVAN | 2011 | Lists over 900 sites to help you find the right park. Pbk. | 2.00 |
| Catalogues and handbooks of various collections of paintings, prints and sculptures. | 1880-1970 | 10 volumes including Royal Shakespeare Theatre Picture Gallery, Port of London Authority, Fitzwilliam Museum, Dyce and Forster Collection, Dulwich College. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Cezanne, Dufy, Leger and Van Gogh (R) * | 1939-1949 | 4 volumes with colour and black and white plates. Please note that the volumes on Cezanne and Dufy are in poor condition.AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Change: women, ageing and the menopause | GREER, Germaine | 1991 | Examines strategies for preparing for and coping with the climacteric, and surveys historic and cultural responses to this life-changing event. | 2.00 |
| Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman (R) * | 2002 | The story of how the philosphical and spiritual traditions of the ancient world were suppressed by an alliance of church and state in the later years of the Roman Empire. Hardback | 3.50 | |
| Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music | 1929-30 | 2 volumes covering chamber music worldwide. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Coinage of the European Continent | HAZLITT, W Carew | 1893-1897 | 2 volumes including the supplement published in 1897.Black and white reproductions of coins. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 |
| Coins of England and the United Kingdom 47th edition by Spink (R) * | 2011 | Standard single-volume reference listing every major coin from the Celts to the present day, with illustrations and valuations. Hardback | 5.00 | |
| Collins School Dictionary | COLLINS | 1998 | Definitions are clear and straightforward and given as explanatory sentences. | 2.00 |
| Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vols. | OXFORD | 1971 | Complete text of the dictionary with revisions up to 1931, micrographically reproduced. Needs to be read with a powerful magnifier. | 20.00 |
| Complete Guide to Sculpture, Modelling and Ceramics. ed Barry Midgeley | 1982 | A clearly-illustrated introduction to history, materials , tools and techniques of sculpture and modelling using a wide range of materials including concrete and metal. Hardback | 4.00 | |
| Complete Sleep Guide for Contented Babies and Toddlers | FORD, Gina | 2003 | Practical advice for dealing with sleep problems of infants. Pbk. | 1.00 |
| Constable and Crome: drawings, watercolours and paintings. | 1968-75 | 2 volumes on Constable and one on Crome. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Contemporary Novelists, 3rd ed. (R) * | CONTEMPORARY | 1982 | A Who's Who of writers, mainly American and British, living at the time of publication, giving brief biographical details, a short critical overview of their work and a bibliography. Large format. | 5.00 |
| Cook's year by Greg Wallace (R) * | 2008 | The doyen of Masterchef shows you how to select and cook with fresh ingredients that are appropriate to the season. Hardback | 3.00 | |
| Crockford's Clerical Directory 2010-11 | CROCKFORD | 2009 | The last-but-one edition of the Established Church's Rev counter. Pbk. | 4.50 |
| Cubism and Braque | 1961-68 | 2 volumes one on Braque and one on Cubism. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Daily Mail Book of Home Plans | 1973-87 | 14 volumes. Annual Daily Mail publication that tied-in with the Ideal Home Exhibition. Volumes cover from 1973-1987.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 40.00 | |
| Devon and Cornwall: Time Out Guide | 2010 | An attractive and accessible traveller's guide to two popular counties | 3.50 | |
| Drawings from Flemish, Spanish, Dutch and French Masters and from the Early German School. | 1926-1950 | 5 volumes covering drawings by Flemish C17th, Dutch C17th, French C19th, Spanish masters and from the early German School. Numerous black and white reproductions. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Durer, Romney, Gilbert and Haig: Four Artists | 1897-1929 | Four monographs on the work of Albrecht Durer,George Romney, Albert Gilbert and Axel Herman Haig. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 18.00 | |
| Dutch and Flemish Painters (R) * | 1895-19 | 5 volumes. Painters include Van Eyck, Breugel, Gerard David, Hieronymus Bosch, Vermeer and Memling. Colour and black and white plates. Please note that the book on Memling is in French. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Early English coins, and British and Irish coins pre-1899. | 1841-1899 | 2 volumes covering English silver coins previous to the Saxon dynasties and coins of Great Britian and Ireland in the collection of the British Museum. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 23.00 | |
| Early Victorian England, 1830-1865 Vol II | YOUNG, G.M. (ed) | 1951 | Chapters by different hands explore in some detail aspects of the social and cultural history of the period. First published 1934. | 3.00 |
| Eco House Book by Terence Conran | 2009 | Attractive 'coffee table book' that combines practical advice on how to make your home more eco-friendly with examples of 'eco homes' from across the Western world.Hardback. | 8.00 | |
| Eero Saarinen 1910-1961: A structural expressionist. By Perluigi Serraino | 2005 | A survey of the main US designs by this influential architect.Well-illustrated paperback | 1.00 | |
| Elements of intuitionism by Michael Dummett | 1977 | First edition of a standard text introducing the fundamental mathematical and logical concepts behind intuitionistic mathematics. Hardback | 8.00 | |
| Encyclopaedia of Motor Sport | 1971 | From the Acropolis Rally to the Zandvoort Circuit, Austin Healey to Zvezda, Antonio Ascari to Geofredo Zehender. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 1980-2003. | 1980-2003. | 24 volumes covering the events during the years 1979-2002. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 30.00 | |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future 1981-1998 | 1982-1999 | 18 volumes covering 1981-1998. Annual yearbook covering developments in science. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 25.00 | |
| English Architects 1660-1840 | 1924-1951 | 2 volumes. A biographical dictionary of English architects 1660-1840 and a volume on Vanbrugh. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| English Coins: From the Anglo-Saxon Period to the Reign of George VI | 1925-1950 | 3 volumes covering English coins with black and white plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 7.00 | |
| English Sporting and Conversation Paintings | 1974 | 4 volumes. Sale catalogue of the collection of Mr and Mrs Dick which was sold at Sotheby in 1974 and exhibition catalogue of British Sporting Paintings 1650-1850 held at the Hayward Gallery in 1974. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Examples of Gothic Architecture | 1895 | Volumes 1 and 2 of Pugin's classic work on Gothic architecture. Volume 3 is not included. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 20.00 | |
| Ferdinand De Lesseps | BEATTY, Charles | 1956 | Biographical study of the French engineer best known for the construction of the Suez Canal | 2.00 |
| Field Book (R) * | 1833 | An encyclopedia of sports and pastimes of the British Islands.Includes entries on animals and birds and all aspects of hunting, shooting and fishing;and on sports and games such as chess and cricket.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Fire Engines and the Fire Service | 1957-95 | 4 volumes including A History of the British Fire Service and 3 volumes on fire engines. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Five English Painters | 1905-1950 | 5 volumes covering the work of Alfred Stevens, Richard Wilson, David Cox, Thomas Gainsborough and Turner.Colour and black and white plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 7.00 | |
| Five painters: Ensor, Miro, Modigliani, Ben Nicholson and Nolde | 1957-64 | Five monographs on five painters. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Flesch's Handel Catalogue (R) * | 1978 | 1 volumes. Thematic catalogue of Handel's works for the stage. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Foreign Language Dictionaries | 1979-2003 | 6 volumes. Including Italian-English, English-Italian; German-English, English-German; English-Irish, Irish- English; English-Japanese; pictorial Chinese and English; and six langauage business dictionary.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 12.00 | |
| Four Italian Painters | 1955-1965 | 4 volumes. The painters are GB Tiepolo, Annigoni, Antonello da Messina and Giorgione. All volumes have colour and black and white plates. Please note that the volume of Annigoni has loose boards and pages. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 15.00 | |
| France: the Four Seasons | BUSSELLE, Michael | 1994 | Photographic celebration of the glories of the French countryside, with an introduction by Frederic Raphael. Large format. | 2.50 |
| French-English, English-French Dictionaries | 1979-1993 | 3 dictionaires. Larousse, Dorian's Dictionary of Science and Technology and Harrap's Business Dicionary. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 6.00 | |
| Furniture: English, Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch | 1907-1963 | 2 volumes covering the history and the development of furniture. Numerous photographs and ilustrations. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Gainsborough and his Place in English Art | ARMSTRONG, Walter | 1898 | 2 oversize volumes including a portfolio of photogravures. Please note that the volume of text is in extremely poor condition with the boards completely detached and all the pages loose. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 20.00 |
| Garden Workshop | GUINNESS, Bunny | 2001 | Almost 30 designs and instructions for creating furniture, structures or ornaments for your garden. Large format. | 1.50 |
| Gardening and English Gardens | 1964-89 | 4 volumes including Geoff Hamilton's Organic Gardening, The Orchard and Fruit Garden, and The English Garden with photographs by Edwin Smith.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Good Schools Guide 2011 | GOOD | 2011 | Reviews over 1000 schools from all sectors, private and state, day and boarding. | 8.50 |
| Gramophone Classical Catalogue | 1961-1988 | 27 volumes covering from 1931-1988. Origninally quarterly but later an annual publication. In the 1960s it covered long playing and 45 rpm microgroove records and recorded tapes, through to CDs in the 1980s.There are no volumes for 65, 67, 81, 82, 83, 84 and 85.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 25.00 | |
| Graphic Design, Type and London Transport Poster | 1963-1976 | 3 volumes including the Graphis Annual 75/76, London Transport poster and typography. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Greek and Roman Coins | 1886-1963 | 4 volumes including guides to Greek and Roman coins in the British Musuem, a detailed history of Greek coins and finds of Greek coins in the British Isles. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 12.00 | |
| Growth of the Book Jacket and Wood Engraving in Modern English Books | ROSNER, Charles | 1949-1954 | 2 volumes. A worldwide survey of book jackets which includes examples of work by John Piper, Jean Cocteau, Osbert Lancaster and Edward Bawden. A survey of wood engraving which includes work by Douglas Percy Bliss, Eric Gill and Eric Ravilious. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 |
| Guides to various British Musuem collections | 1861-1963 | 6 volumes covering pottery and porcelain of the Far East and England, Greek terracotta figures, early Medieval art, and Greek and Etruscan vases. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Hachette World Guides to Spain and Greece and Les Guides Bleus France. | 1959-64 | 3 volumes. Spain and Greece are in English while France is in French.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate | Chaffers, William | 1905 and 1 | 2 volumes. 9th edtion published in 1905 and 10th edtion published in 1922. A detailed history of gold and silver work in England, Scotland and Ireland. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 |
| Hampton Court Palace: an Assortment | 1948-84 | 5 volumes including two pamphlets and three illustrated histories of the Palace. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 7.00 | |
| Harbour goes to war: The story of Mulberry and the men who made it happen by J Evans and others (R) * | 2000 | The story of the construction and deployment of the ingenious temporary harbours used in Normandy after D-Day. Hardback | 2.00 | |
| Heroes and heroines | 1980 | A succinct and fully illustrated survey of heroic figures in myth and reality, from Heracles to Neil Armstrong. Hardback | 2.00 | |
| History of German Architecture | 1949 | 1 volume. History of German architecture by Eberhard Hempel. This book is in German. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| History of Hampton Court Palace | Law, Ernest | 1891-1903 | Three volumes on the history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor, Stuart, Orange and Geulph times. Illustrated with maps, engravings, etchings and plans.Please note that there are some loose pages and and the covers aren't in perfect condition. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 |
| History of the English Puppet Theatre by George Speaight | 1990 | Classic work on puppet theatre in England from antiquity to the 1950s, written by a scholar and pupeteer. Well-illustrated and annotated. Hardback | 3.50 | |
| History of the United States Mint and American Coinage | 1886 | An illustrated history with a complete description of American coinage and of the process of melting, refining, assaying. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Hogarth: His Life and Engravings | 1907-1973 | 2 volumes. 101 prints of engravings by Hogarth and a volume on his life (this is in German). ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Icons Ikonen Icones | 1960 | The history of icons with numerous colour plates. Text is in English, German and French. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Icons of film. The 20th Century (R) * | 2000 | A survey of 84 films from across the 20th century, with descriptions, commentaries, cast details and lots of photographs. | 3.00 | |
| Illuminated Books and the Beginnings of Printed Book Illustration | 1933-67 | 3 volumes. Including the history and production of the illuminated book, the Canterbury scool of illumination 1066-1200, and the beginnings of printed book illustration. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Islamic, Japanese and Chinese Art. | 1930-76 | 6 volumes covering Islamic art and architecture, Persian miniature painting, Chinese art and the prints of Hokusai. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 20.00 | |
| James McNeill Whistler | 1903-1966 | 2 volumes on his art and life. Colour and black and while plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Jane's Fighting Ships 1961-62 (R) * | BLACKMAN, Raymond (ed) | 1961 | No dust jacket, but binding sound | 12.50 |
| Jane's Fighting Ships, 1964-65 | BLACKMAN, Raymond (ed) | 1964 | This edition of the reference work complete with dust-wrapper. | 15.00 |
| Kahlil Gibran: a biography | NAIMY, Mikhail | 1988 | Life of the poet and champion of Arabic literature, written by a close friend and colleague. First published 1934. Pbk. | 2.00 |
| Knights of the Middle Ages | Brooke-Little, John | 1966 | Detailed descriptions of their armour and coats of arms with very attractive colour plates.Please note that this book is oversize. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 |
| Lag's Lexicon and Sea Slang of the C20th | 1949-50 | 2 volumes. C20th sea slang as used in the Royal and Merchant Navy, and by bargemen, fishermen and canalmen and a comprehensive dictionary and encyclopedia of the English prison in mid C20th. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Learning not to be first: the life of Christina Rossetti by Kathleen Jones | 1991 | This biography describes Christina Rossetti's life, faith and work, setting it in the wider context not just of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood but also of contemporary women writers.Hardback | 3.00 | |
| Letters to George by Max Stafford-Clark | 2004 | The director's diary record of the gestation of the famous 1988 production of 'The Recruiting Officer' at The Royal Court. Entertaining and insightful. Paperback. | 2.00 | |
| Life in Cold Blood | ATTENBOROUGH, David | 2008 | Tie-in book to the TV series looking at the large, ancient and various group known as reptiles. | 3.00 |
| life of Picasso volume 3: the triumphant years 1917-1932 | 2007 | A biography that examines a period in Picasso's life that was one of his most fruitful artistically but chaotic and contoversial in his private life. A well-illustrated paperback | 3.00 | |
| London Commuter Lines Volume 1: Main Lines North of the Thames by Frank Hornby | 1999 | Well-illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, this is a railway buff's guide to suburban railways north of the Thames. Paperback. | 3.00 | |
| London Commuter Lines Volume 2:South of the Thames and inner suburban lines | 1999 | Second volume of the railway enthusiasts's guide to London commuter lines, this one covering suburban railways south of the river. Well-illustrated paperback | 3.00 | |
| London: an Assortment | 1901-1994 | 6 volumes including: The Times London History Atlas, Old London Town, London for the Literary Pilgrim, and Bond Street. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 18.00 | |
| Love Songs From the Movies | LOVE | 2002 | 33 songs from some of the most popular movies of the last 30 years arranged for piano, voice and guitar, with chord boxes. Large pbk. | 2.00 |
| Love, Laughter and Parenting | BIDDULPH, Steve | 2000 | Practical guide to the years from birth to six which puts the fun back in parenting. | 1.50 |
| Low's Policital Parade and Low Again | 1936-1938 | 2 volumes. A selection of David Low's cartoons that first ppeared in the Evening Standard . Featuring Colonel Blimp, Hit and Muss and Muzzler. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Margaret Costa's Four Seasons Cookery Book (R) * | 2008 | Attractive edition, originally published in 1970, of an eminently practical classic by a highly influential cookery writer | 5.00 | |
| Marley & Me | GROGAN, John | 2006 | The bestseller that recounts life and love with the world's worst dog. | 1.00 |
| Marvin: the story of Lee Marvin | ZEC, Donald | 1979 | Life of the tall, craggy, hell-raising actor. | 1.50 |
| Masque Library | 1950 | Seven issues of The Masque in one volume. Includes essays by Sacheverell Sitwell on theatrical figures in porcelain and Laurence Whistler and Cecil Beaton on Rex Whistler's designs for the theatre. Colour and black and white plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 4.00 | |
| Matisse: lithographs, drawings and paintings | 1923-72 | 2 volumes on Matisse's work. All the plates are in black and white and one volume is in French. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Medals: English, Italian, Papal | 1881-1962 | 3 volumes. Guides to Italian and English medals in the Department of Coins and Medals of the British Museum, and a descriptive catalogue of Papal medals. Volume on English medals has loose boards and a damaged spine. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Medicine, Symptoms and the Human Body | 1994-1998 | 3 volumes including the Oxford Medical Companion,and an A-Z of Symptons. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 12.00 | |
| Medieval Sculptures at Winchester College | 1932 | Portfolio of loose plates of photographs, with a separate letterpress introduction, in a slipcase. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| Middlesex: an Assortment | 1888-1972 | 5 volumes. Middlesex County Records 1625-1667, Memorials of Old Middlesex, Domesday Book for Middlesex, Middlesex in British, Roman and Saxon Times and volume 3 of the Middlesex Victoria County History. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography. By Ian Carr | 1999 | Comprehensive biography covering both the man and his music.Paperback | 3.00 | |
| Military Battles, Regiments, Uniforms and Weapons | 1964-87 | 4 volumes covering great military battles from Rocroi to The Ardennes; decisive battles of the C20th; and military uniforms and weapons; and regiments from around the globe.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 13.00 | |
| Miniatures and Miniaturists | 1951-1970 | 3 volumes covering British profile miniaturists, the British miniataure and miniatures in the C18th and C19th. Illustrated with numerous black and white plates.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND. | 15.00 | |
| Mode in Furs | 1951 | The history of furred costumes of the world from the earliest times to the present (1950).With numerous line drawings. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Modern Masters of Etching: Laura Knight, Rusbury, Whistler, Brockhurst, McBey, Meryon and Frank Brangwyn. | 1924-1932 | 7 volumes published by the Studio. Each volume has an introduction to the work of the artist and then examples of their etchings.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 25.00 | |
| Mountain Flowers | RAVEN, John | 1956 | Volume in the New Naturalist series covering the wild flowers of British mountains. | 7.00 |
| Murderers and Criminals: Two Encyclopedias | 1957-1992 | 2 volumes. An enclyclopedia of C20th murders and a concise encylcopedia of crime and criminals. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| My Heart Belongs | MARTIN, Mary | 1977 | Autobiography of the girl from Texas who became a Broadway favourite, starring in many of the most successful musicals. | 1.50 |
| National Gallery Catalogues Plates | 1950-1959 | 4 oversize volumes of plates published to illustrate the catalogues of the National Gallery collection. Covers the French, Spanish, C18th Italian and Germans schools. Mainly black and white plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers | SADIE, Julie Anne (ed) | 1994 | Brief accounts of the life and work of 875 composers from classical antiquity to the mid-20th century. | 7.50 |
| New Pewter Marks and Old Pewter Ware | Markham, Major C A | 1928 | 1 volume. Covers the history of the craft, the manufacture and composition of pewter ware and details of pewter marks. There is some damage to the spine. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 |
| New Zealand: Eyewitness Travel | 2008 | This edition in Dorling Kindersley's pocket-sized but highly attractive series acts equally well as guidebook, introduction to or memento of the country | 3.00 | |
| Newnes Encyclopaedia of Angling and Complete Guide to Sea Angling | 1963-1968 | 2 volumes with black and white photographs and illustrations. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 4.00 | |
| Norfolk and Suffolk: Time Out Guide | 2010 | From King's Lynn to Felixstowe, this attractive and informative guide provides comprehensive coverage. | 3.50 | |
| Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture South in West Surrey | 1889 | Detailed descriptions of cottages and houses in SW Surrey with floorplans and drawings of architectural details. Some loose pages. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Once upon a time by J R Taraborrelli | 2003 | The story of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier in a sympathetic but honest account drawing on interviews with friends and relatives | 2.00 | |
| Orders, Decorations, Medals and Awards of Europe, the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth | 1956-67 | 3 volumes covering awards, medals, decorations and orders with numerous colour plates. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Our Birmingham | 1943 | Published in 1943 by Cadbury Brothers Limited. Covers the development of the city and looks at how it might be rebuilt after the WW2. Its aim was to stimulate the interest of the young people in the past and future of their city. Please note that this item has loose boards and is a small paperback. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 3.00 | |
| Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th rev ed. | OXFORD | 2006 | Edited by Margaret Drabble. | 5.00 |
| Paris: Eyewitness Travel Guides | 2009 | This edition in Dorling Kindersley's pocket-sized but highly attractive series acts equally well as guidebook, introduction to or memento of the city | 3.00 | |
| Paul Simon Companion: four decades of commentary | LUFTIG, Stacey | 1997 | Medley of interviews, articles and criticism concerning his work as a song-writer and performer. With discography. Pbk. | 1.50 |
| Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music | CLARKE, Donald (ed) | 1989 | Almost 3000 entries span the field of non-classical music in the 20th century. | 2.50 |
| Phil May Album and R. Caldecott’s Sketchbook | 1900 | 2 volumes. May was a popular illustrator and cartoonist and Cadecott was an artist and illustrator. Both had work regularly published in The Graphic and Punch.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND. | 20.00 | |
| Philip and Elizabeth: portrait of a marriage | BRANDRETH, Gyles | 2004 | Dual biography of the Queen and her consort, cousins whose childhoods were very different, yet who have been partners in marriage for over sixty years. | 1.50 |
| Photography book | 1997 | A lavish large-format book with 500 photographs by masters in the medium, including many iconic images. Hardback | 8.00 | |
| Photography: three books on photography from the pre-digital camera age | 1992-97 | 3 volumes including John Hedgecoe's The Photographers Handbook. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Plant Lore and Herbal and Alternative Medicine | 1985-2002 | 3 volumes. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Player's Library: First, Second and Third Supplements | 1951-1956 | 3 volumes. These supplement the The Player's Library, the catalogue of the British Drama Society League Library, that was published in 1950. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 4.00 | |
| Playing Cards | 1931-1966 | 2 volumes covering the history of playing cards including detailed descriptions of all the picture cards and of the suits, and information on how to collect them. Numerous black and white and colour illustrations. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Pottery and Porcelain | 1925-1962 | 9 volumes. Covering porcelain and pottery form England, Europe and the Near East. Includes volumes 1 and 3 of Hannover's Pottery and Porcelain : A Handbook for Collectors. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 22.00 | |
| Price Guides to Pot Lids, C18th English Porcelain, Victorian Furniture and Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, and Antique Silver. | 1970-77 | 5 volumes.Published by the Antique Collectors' Club. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Printmaking: four titles | 1904-62 | 5 volumes. Covering the engravings of Willaim Blake, mezzotints, etchings by British artists,the woodcuts of Thomas Bewick and his school, and on how to identify prints. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 30.00 | |
| Railways of Richmond upon Thames | 1991 | 1 volume covering the history of railways in Richmond upon Thames. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Reynold Stone | Piper, Myfanwy | 1951 | Monograph on the work of wood-engraver Reynold Stone with many example of his enngravings. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 5.00 |
| Rhododendrons of the world and how to grow them by David G Leach | 1962 | Encyclopedic work by a world authority covering history, species and cultivation of rhododendrons. 544 pages Hardback | 7.00 | |
| Richmond on the Thames (R) * | GARNETT, Richard | 1906 | Written by the Keeper of Printed Books in the British Musuem this history of Richmond is illustrated with engravings, drawings and etchings. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 |
| Richmond Past and Present: an Assortment | 1966-1994 | 11 volumes. A selcetion of books and pamphlets covering Richmond past and present, including two journals of the Richmond Local History Society. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| River Thames: an Assortment | 1912-1982 | 8 volumes covering the history of the river, the people who lived on its banks, fishing on the river and a journey from its source to the sea. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 20.00 | |
| Rocket men by Craig Nelson | 2009 | The story of US attempts to get to the moon, culminating in a detailed description of the Apollo 11 mission itself. Hardback | 2.00 | |
| Roget's Thesaurus | 1992 | This edition prepared by Betty Kirkpatrick, 1987. | 2.00 | |
| Roman Coins | 1948-69 | 5 volumes published by Seasby's Numismatic Publications. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Rough Guide to Germany | 2009 | Fascinating whether you are planning a trip or just to dip into. Paperback. | 2.50 | |
| Royal Commission on the Canals and Inland Navigations of the United Kingdom | 1909-1910 | Volumes 7, 8 and 9 of the Commission's report. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Rugs and Carpets: Oriental, Caucasian and European | 1927-63 | 4 volumes. 3 volumes on European, Oriental and Caucasian rugs and carpets, and one volume on how to identify them. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 30.00 | |
| Russian and European Art in the C19th and C20th. | 1956-62 | 3 volumes covering art in Russia and Europe during the C19th and C20th. Includes The Great Experiment:Russian Art 1863-1922. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Ryom's Vivaldi Catalogue (R) * | 1974 | 1 volume. Catalgoue of the works of Antonio Vivaldi. This book is in German. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Sarah Duchess of Marlborough | GREEN, David | 1967 | Biography of the remarkable woman who was an intimate friend of Queen Anne and married to a national hero, who fell foul of court intrigue, was widowed, courted for her beauty but kept her independence and her great estate at Blenheim Palace. | 2.00 |
| Seaside | HOWELL, Sarah | 1974 | Traces the development of the seaside holiday in Europe and America from the 18th century on. Highly illustrated. | 1.50 |
| Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting (R) * | 1951-1956 | 2 volumes covering Dutch still life, portrait and landscape painting. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Shakespeare: an Assortment | 1913-38 | 4 volumes. A complete concordance to his dramatic works and poems, Sir Sidney Lee's life of Shakespeare, an anthology and a guide to Shakespearian costume for stage and screen. The first few pages of the concordance are damaged. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 18.00 | |
| Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review | 1895 | His life and work with black and white plates. This book is in very poor physical condition with the pages no longer attached to the cover. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND. | 15.00 | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds | 1900 | One oversize volume on the life and work of Sir Joshua Reynolds with black and white plates.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Snake charmer by Jamie James | 2008 | The dramatic story of daring biologist and adventurer Joe Slowinski, culminating in a life-or-death drama deep in the Burmese jungle. Hardback | 2.00 | |
| Social Science Encyclopedia edited by Adam Kuper (R) * | 2003 | Second edition of a comprehensive and accessible work written by experts and covering hundreds of topics across the Social Sciences. Intended for students and scholars. Paperback | 5.00 | |
| Society for Theatre Research: various publications | 1950-75 | 18 volumes including pamphlets and annual publications. Subjects covered include: the Everyman Theatre, London Theatre in the 1830s, John Decoto and Elizabethan private theatres. Also includes a bibliography of English theatrical literature 1159-1900. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 12.00 | |
| Songs of Charles Dibdin | 1842 | These are arranged chronologically with notes, historical, biographical and critical; and also with the music. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Spain: Eyewitness Travel Guide | EYEWITNESS | 2009 | A recent edition in this well-established, heavily illustrated series. | 2.00 |
| Spanish Painting (R) * | 1896-1965 | 5 volumes covering Spanish painting from the C12 to the C19th, including two volumes on the life and work of Velazquez, and a volume on El Greco. Colour and balck and white plates and slides. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Spotlight Actors 2010-2011 | 2010 | 5 volumes. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Spotlight Actresses 2009-2010 | 2009 | 5 volumes. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Stage Designs and Costume by Oliver Messel | 1933 | With colour and black and white plates showing Messel's designs for sets and costumes. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Star-Spangled Banner | Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore | 1914 | Written by the Chief of the Library of Congress's Music Division. This volume covers the of the origins and development of music and lyrics of America's national song. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 3.00 |
| Stealing The Scream by Edward Dolnick | 2007 | Starting with the theft of Munch's painting in 1994, this is a fascinating foray into the murky world of art theft and the work of the investigators who try to recover stolen works of art. Hardback | 2.00 | |
| Story of Where You Live by Reader's Digest | 2005 | An attractive introduction to local history, giving an overview of the development of landscape, communities and homes over time with guidance on how to interpret what you see today for signs of the past.Hardback | 5.00 | |
| Teach yourself visually digital photography | 2006 | Clear step-by-step guide to taking, improving and enhancing digital photographs. | 1.50 | |
| Tears of Mermaids: the secret story of pearls | BLOOM, Stephen G. | 2009 | How do pearls get from oyster - if indeed they do come from oysters - to necklace? The author explores the trade and its history around the world and meets some extraordinary people along the way. | 2.00 |
| The English: Manners, Festivals and Social History | 1947-1987 | 3 volumes including Christopher Hibbert's Social History 1066-1945 and Laurence Whistler's English Festivals. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Theatre and Stage | 1934 | 2 volumes. A guide to the performance of all classes of amateur dramatic, operatic, and theatrical work written in the 1930s. Articles include: pageants by Mary Kelly and theatrical dancing by Mme Marie Rambert. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND . | 5.00 | |
| Theatre ands Screen World Annuals | 1959-65 | 7 volumes of Theatre World Annual giving a full pictorial review of the 1958-1965 London seasons. Plus Screen World Film Annual for 1968. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND. | 10.00 | |
| Thick Of It: the missing DoSAC files | IANNUCCI, Armando | 2010 | With personnel files, policy drafts, letters, emails and transcripts, this dossier is Malcolm Tucker's insurance policy. And it went missing.... Large pbk. | 1.50 |
| Three London Theatres: The Globe, St James's and Drury Lane | 1964-1974 | 3 volumes covering the history of St. James's Theatre, the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe and the diaries of James Winston from his time at Drury Lane.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 8.00 | |
| Time Flies: Heathrow at 60 (R) * | GALLOP, Alan | 2005 | The human and commercial story of London's largest airport from the day in 1946 when its first ten passengers disembarked from a converted Lancaster bomber. | 3.00 |
| Traveller's Companion to the West Country | JENNER, Michael | 1992 | Thematically arranged survey of the physical and cultural inheritance of the region, taken as stretching from Cornwall to Hampshire. Highly illustrated, large pbk. | 1.70 |
| Tudor Court, Elizabethan Pageantry and Stuart England | 1934-1986 | 3 volumes. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Tulip | PAVORD, Anna | 2004 | The story of the flower and its cultural significance, from the days of its arrival in Europe via Turkey, the explosion of tulipomania in 17th century Holland and its continuing fascination for gardeners and geneticists today. Illustrated with many beautiful full-page colour reproductions. Large pbk. | 3.00 |
| Under the weather: Us and the elements by Tom Fort | 2006 | A quirky tour around the history of the British obsession with the weather. Hardback | 3.00 | |
| Victoria and Albert Museum assorted guides to their collections. | 1922-69 | 21 guides to the V and A's collections including tiles, C20th watercolours, embrodiery, pottery, glass, textiles, and English cabinets.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 20.00 | |
| Victoria and Albert Musuem Small Picture Book series on domestic silver. | 1949-62 | 10 volumes. Covering early Stuart, Adam Queen Anne, French and Regency silver.ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Victorian Painters | 1897-1971 | 2 volumes. A dictionary of Victorian painters and a volume covering the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and other Victorian painters including: Lord Leighton, Whistler and Sargent. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 15.00 | |
| Victoriana to Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco | 1974-94 | 3 volumes covering Victorian to the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, RICHMOND | 5.00 | |
| Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music | 2002 | With 1430 pages and over 3000 entries, this impressive book is an essential guide to twentieth-century popular music. Hardback | 4.00 | |
| Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and Modern American Usage and Slang | 1954-2001 | 3 volumes covering American English. Including a thesaurus of slang and modern American usage. Some of the pages of the dictionary are damaged. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die? | BENOIT, Tod | 2009 | Details the ends and final resting places of over 450 well-known names, mostly from the arts and entertainment - and largely American. Pbk. | 1.50 |
| Who Else Writes Like... A Reader's Guide to Fiction Authors | 2005 | Almost 200 Adult Fiction authors listed and cross-referenced to other authors who write in the same vein. If you've read everything by an author and want to find something similar this is for you. Paperback | 3.50 | |
| Who's Who of Musicians and Composers | 1895-1967 | 5 volumes including a Biographical Index of British Musicians (1947), Farga's Violins and Violinists (1950),Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 14.00 | |
| Who's Who: an Assortment | 1906-1978 | 8 volumes. Including who's who in poetry, English history 1789-1837, engineering, local government in 1935, British sport in 1947 and British films. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 10.00 | |
| William Morris, John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (R) * | 1899-1998 | Paul Thompson's The Work of William Morris and a volume of Ruskin and Rossetti's letters and papers from 1854-1862. ONLY AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT COLLECTION FROM THE INFORMATION & REFERENCE LIBRARY, OLD TOWN HALL, WHITTAKER AVE, RICHMOND | 6.00 | |
| With These Hands: a collection of work | AYRES, Pam | 1997 | A selection of poems, sketches and short prose pieces. | 1.50 |
| Worldwide Guide to movie locations | 2003 | This guide lists the key locations for 1500 films. Most listings are for British and US films but are from across the history of cinema.Pbk | 1.50 | |
| Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2011 | 2010 | An essential combination of practical information and advice for aspiring or practising writers and artists. Paperback | 2.00 |
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