Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Sound the Retreat (Signed copy)
With a signed handwritten postcard from Simon Raven, the seventh in his Alms for Oblivion series
Simon Raven
Anthony Blond, London, 1971
£45.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Places Where They Sing (Signed copy)
With a typed letter signed by Simon Raven, the sixth book in the Alms for Oblivion series.
Simon Raven
Anthony Blond, London, 1970
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Miss May, The Story of an Englishwoman (Signed copy)
Signed by SOE agent and gulag-survivor Mary Allison Miske (Miss May)
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Architecture for Children
1945, Jane and Maxwell Fry's illustrated guide
Jane and Maxwell Fry
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1945
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Therese
1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's novel
Francois Mauriac, translated by Eric Sutton
Martin Secker, London, 1928
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative
The radical American poet's second book, 1929
Walter Lowenfels, with a prefatory note by Humbert Wolfe
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Spy and his Masters
1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Rupert Book 1941
A rare first printing of the sixth Rupert Book
Alfred Bestall
Daily Express Publications, London, 1941
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Playe
1966, first edition, 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Irving Chernev
Faber & Faber, London, 1966
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Entertainment & Games | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962
Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee
1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Two A J P Taylor first editions
Englishmen and Others (1956) and From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1966)
A J P Taylor
Various, London, 1956
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Life Beyond the Veil, Spirit Messages Received and Written Down
Book II: The Highlands of Heaven (1920, 1st)
The Rev G Vale Owen, with an appreciation by Lord Northcliffe and a preface and notes by H W Engholm
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1920
£20.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions
Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends
A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A London Family Between the Wars
1940, first edition of life in Cuffley in the 1920s & 1930s
M Vivian Hughes
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables
1929, first edition of Mackail's short stories
Denis Mackail
William Heinemann, London, 1929
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Literature, Music and Philosophy
A selection of Andrei Zhdanov's speeches and reports
A A Zhdanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1950
£15.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)
A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield
Barbara Ninde Byfield, illustrated by the author
Macmillan, New York, 1967
£60.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 47, July to December 1884
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, including an early photo-lithograph of the Statue of Liberty
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1884
£60.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 45, July to December 1883
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, a remarkable sourcebook of Victorian architecture
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1883
£120.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Historique de 244e Regiment D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1 Avril 1917—30 Janvier 1919
A 1919 French WW1 regimental history with Roll of Honour
Not stated
Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Historique des 44e, 244e et 264e Regiments D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1914–1918
French WW1 regimental history including Roll of Honour
Not stated
Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Homes and Gardens 1940—all 12 issues January to December
Architecture, decor, clothing and fashion, food, air raid defence...
Homes and Gardens Magazine
Country Life, London, 1940
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Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Well-Beloved
1897, first US edition on book form of Thomas Hardy's final novel
Thomas Hardy, frontispiece by H Macbeth-Raeburn
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Aristide Maillol (Signed copy)
From the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote
Bertrand Lorquin
Thames and Hudson, London, 1995
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
