Recent Arrivals from Brief Street Books

Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1989. 245 pages. First edition, third printing. Dust jacket very good with a price-clipped flap, slight sunning along panel edges. A beautiful, bright and first edition, third printing from November 1989 (first printing was October 1989). Small owners inscription to front free endpaper. A true classic.

Bright and unmarked, first edition thus of landmark The Mind Map Book. Very useful tool for business, learning and personal planning. Attractive book, well illustrated and designed in cooperation with BBC.

Reminiscences of a Jewish British nurse who came to London at the start of WWII. Stories of her family, friends and patients. With illustrations and photographs. Published in 1992. In very good bright condition.

First edition, flat signed on title page by Bryson, of this modern classic. Very good book in very good jacket, with blue illustrated endpapers, initial map page and author photo to back flap. Wonderful gift.

Panther History title. In very good condition, with tight binding and black and white photographic illustrations intact and clean. 558 pages includes index. Cover illustration Rousseau by Ramsay.

Gorgeous graphic primer by illustrator Molly Bang on composing an image/illustration. Both the language and layout are wonderful in describing art and psychology - a great book. This is the sixth printing of the first edition, printed in 2010 and in very good condition indeed.

Tricolour Penguin, the 1958 reprint of the 1950 edition. Bright, small owner's name to front free endpaper, cover just starting at top of spine, lovely for a collector or display. Back cover with author photo and bio. 188 pages plus Penguin advertisements at rear for Tortilla Flat, The Honeyed Peace and Tender is the Night.

Adapted by Burke from the 1967 BBC program of the same name that "shocks and delights an audience of 16,000,000" Tanning pages from age, but otherwise a wonderful clean copy of this book, tight binding, all the numerous black and white photographic illustrations intact. 188 pages plus Pan books advertisements to rear. First Pan paperback edition. In very good condition.

Includes index. 1988 Reprint. Post restoration England, the Royal Courts and the politics of patronage of the arts.

Profusing illustrated book by Professor Zeman then of Oxford. A bright copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions.

First edition in translation. In very good condition, no markings etc, some sunning to cover. Translator J. C. Whitehouse. "This 1985 book is at one level an historical account of the development of mass psychology, and at another an analysis of its implications for prevalent political and social life. Serge Moscovici's acute analyses of mass phenomena raise fundamental questions concerning… Read more about this item

First edition and printing from Ace Books Limited. Red and white card cover with photo of Bowen to front. In very good condition. With cover quotes by V.S. Pritchett and Lord David Cecil, and half title verso ad for Between the Acts by Woolf, also by Ace. 125 pages with ads for Ace books at rear. 15 short stories.

Gatefold flaps. 2006 edition of these two books in one volume: Tangi (written 1973) and The Return (2005) about Tama Mahana. By the New Zealand author of The Whale Rider, published in New Zealand.

A graphic novel (illustrated comic form) about four girls going to a religious high school in a small town in middle American. Friendships, business dealings, adventure, romance, LGBTQ+ themes. Gorgeous book.

Once & Future issues 1-6 collected in one volume here. Arthurian terror adventure. First printing.

First edition, first printing. In very good condition, no markings, lovely jacket.

First edition, August 1951. 50 metalwork items from the V&A collection described, with over 50 black and white photographic plates. Small black pencil mark to back cover, in very good condition. 15 x 15cm.

In very good condition with subscription card and Grove advertisement card page. Second Printing. 182 pages. A lovely copy, great gift or collectors. Photo of Burroughs by Charles Henry Ford to cover, Kerouac blurb on the back. Evergreen Black Cat Book price 95cents to back. A classic.

First thus by Penguin, 1962, price 3/6. No markings inside, in very good condition as seen in photos, light crease to cover. Cover design by R. A. Glendening, blurb to back by Edith Sitwell (!). A classic.

Penguin paperback with notable cover design by David Pelham. 1970, first thus by Penguin. 314 pages. Small owner's inscription to front free endpage. Even toning to all pages, light small waterstain to first 2 pages. Robust and striking, the copy of Death Kit to keep.