War and Peace

From our new home in Cecil Court, we have assembled a catalogue shaped by a striking imbalance: books on war are plentiful, while books on peace are harder to come by. Between them stands a first edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace - a reminder of how literature has long wrestled with the tension between conflict and concord. 

War, often presented as a theatre for heroism, reveals in reality only horror. Peace can be easily overshadowed until its absence is most deeply felt. An absence which we are witnessing at this very moment. 

Our catalogue ties these voices together to demonstrate that reading is inherently an act of resistance.

43 items
  • Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d'Argenton. Derniere édition
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • War Letters
    £3,500.00
    £3,500.00
  • Visas for America. A Story of an Escape
    £1,800.00
    £1,800.00
  • War Books. A Critical Guide
    £450.00
    £450.00
  • A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington …
    £250.00
    £250.00
  • De iure belli ac pacis libri tres, cum annotationibus selectis Ioann …
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • L’historia d’Italia
    £7,500.00
    £7,500.00
  • Callinicus. In Defence of Chemical Warfare
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • Compendium of the Statute Laws, and Regulations of the Court of …
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • Fixed Bayonets: A Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine …
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • The Crisis of the Naval War
    £400.00
    £400.00
  • If This is a Man
    £1,800.00
    £1,800.00
  • The Battle Continues
    £500.00
    £500.00
  • The Second Afghan War 1878-80. Abridged Official Account. Produced in the …
    £1,400.00
    £1,400.00
  • The works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of …
    £9,500.00
    £9,500.00
  • The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Compiled, at the Request of the …
    £900.00
    £900.00
  • The Crisis … During the present bloody Civil War in America
    £1,800.00
    £1,800.00
  • General Gordon in China. The Story of the Ever Victorious Army
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • The Starr Affair
    £500.00
    £500.00
  • PEPPER, W. A Treatise on the New Broad Sword Exercise … The sixth Edition with Additions.
    £2,500.00
    £2,500.00
  • Gravity's Rainbow
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • The Sino-Japanese disturbances Souvenir Album. Shanghai. 1932 [author and imprint …
    £700.00
    £700.00
  • Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • Account Settled. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
    £450.00
    £450.00
  • On the Natural History of Destruction
    £75.00
    £75.00
  • Atlas volume to History of the War in France and Belgium …
    £900.00
    £900.00
  • Map of the Seat of War in the Far East
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • A Detailed Account of the Battle of Austerlitz. Translated from the …
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians, in the …
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences …
    £600.00
    £600.00
  • All Our Yesterdays (signed Limited Edn …
    £150.00
    £150.00