Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Henry 'Chips' Channon, The Diaries 1918–38
Simon Heffer's editing of Volume One
Simon Heffer, editor
Hutchinson, London, 2021
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Jewel in the Crown
1966, the first printing of the first of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet
Paul Scott
William Heinemann, London, 1966
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Folk-Songs of Italy
1887, a first edition but in poor condition.
Miss R H Busk, with Dr Giuseppe Pitre
Swan Sonnenschein & Lowrey, London, 1887
£12.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Franny and Zooey
1962, first UK edition of J D Salinger's novel in two halves
J D Salinger
William Heinemann, London, 1962
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Handling a Low-Powered Steamer in a Revolving Storm
A 1929 prize-winning essay
Captain J S Commander
Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
In the Day of Battle
1916, an early anthology of Great Poetry, and the first apprearance in book form of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields
Carrie Ellen Holman
William Briggs, Toronto, 1916
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seegar's collection of traveller's folk songs
Ewan MacColl, and Peggy Seeger
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Bounty of the Gods, A Study in Points of View (1910)
and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)
Lady Helen Forbes
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Secret Kingdom
1911, a parody of Ruritanian romances, with guest appearance from Sherlock Holmes
Frank Richardson
Duckworth & Co, London, 1911
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tal, His Marvellous Adventures with Noor-Zor-Noom
A fantasy adventure from the great-grandson of James Fenimore Cooper
Paul Fenimore Cooper, illustrated by Ruth Reeves
Victor Gollancz, London, 1930
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Quest for Christa T
1971, the first UK edition of Christa Wolf's novel
Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton
Hutchinson, London, 1971
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
JAPANESE SWORDS Token no mikata: gijutsu to ryuha
1971, an illustrated Japanese guide by Yurichi Hiroi
Yurichi Hiroi
Dai-ichi Hoki Shuppan, Tokyo, 1971
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Slipcase
The Golden Staircase, Poems for Children
1906, in a delightful cream cloth and gilt decorated binding
Louey Chisholm, colour plates by M Dibdin Spooner
T C & E C Jack, London, 1906
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
The Road to the Isles
Poetry, Lore, and Tradition of the Hebrides. 1927, and from the library of folklorist Francesca Claremont
Kenneth Macleod, with an introduction by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Robert Grant and Son, London, 1927
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Political Essays
Essays from the Russian politician and writer, Roy A Medvedev
Roy A Medvedev
Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1976
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Echo
Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bodies and Souls
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1922
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Leonardo, Holbein, Durer, The French Impressionists
Four pocket art books, each with the bookplate of British artist Percival Gaskell
Ford Madox Hueffer, and Georg Gronau, Lina Eckenstein, and Camille Mauclair
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Francis Bacon's Studio
An illustrated in-depth study
Magarita Cappock
Merrell, London, 2005
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Dombrovskis: A Photographic Collection
A celebration of photographer Peter Dombrovskis' nature photography
Peter Dombrovskis, photographs, with Essay by Bob Brown and A Personal and Natural History by Jamie Kirkpatrick
West Wind Press, Hobart, Australia, 1998
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Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Shape of Content
1957, a first edition of Ben Shahn's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Ben Shahn
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1957
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Destruction of Lord Raglan (Signed copy)
A Crimean War history, with letter from Christopher Hibbert
Christopher Hibbert
Longmans, London, 1961
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Transatlantic Review 9
1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson
J F McCrindle, editor
Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Soft Cover | First Editions
