Browse by Attribute—First Editions
A Cookery Book for the Tropics
1962, a collection of African recipes
Mrs Adebisi Vincent, with a foreword by Dr Soyode Franklin
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1962
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Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
Unfree in Palestine (Signed copy)
Signed by Adah Kay, 'Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction'
Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Adah Kay
Pluto Press, London, 2013
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance
1924, a first edition of Ford Madox Ford's memoir
Ford Madox Ford, also given as Ford Madox Hueffer
Duckworth & Co, London, 1924
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Unabridge Japanese-English Dictionary
1896. the first edition but in poor condition
Captain Francis Brinkley, and F Nanjo & Y Iwasaki, with the cooperation of K Mitsukuri & J Matsumura
Sanseido, Tokyo, 1896
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Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
Sophie Ryder (Signed copy)
A study of the sculptor's work, signed by Sophie Ryder
Jonathan Benington
Lund Humphries, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914–1918
Volume 2: The Tide of Victory, from the Salonica Campaign of 1916 to the Armistice
Edmund Dane
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919
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Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Innovative Surface Structures
Technologies and Applications
Martin Bechthold
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, 2008
£35.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems
A scarce early title from mystical poet Amy Key Clarke
Amy Key Clarke
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1922
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Book of Dogs (Signed copy)
Signed by Stanley West, a thorough guide to breeds, showing, training etc
Stanley West, foreword by Jerrold Vassall Adams, photographs by Walter Guiver.
Alexander Ouseley, London, 1935
£30.00
Animals & Pets | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
A Mirror to My Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Perle Hessing
Perle Hessing
Henry Holt, New York, 1988
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Theatre
Somerset Maugham's novel of the stage
W Somerset Maugham
William Heinemann, London, 1937
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Chagall du Coq a l'Ane
A superbly illustrated French exhibition catalogue from 2018
Jean-Jacques Faucher, and Jean-Louis Prat
La Doyenne, Brioude, 2018
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Opposing Man
1974, the first UK edition of Ernst Fischer's autobiography
Ernst Fischer, with an introduction by John Berger, translated by Peter and Betty Ross
Allen Lane, London, 1974
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Samuel Palmer, The Sketchbook of 1824
A facsimile of the only one of Palmer's sketchbooks to survive
Martin Butlin, editor, with a foreword by William Vaughan
Thames and Hudson, London, 2005
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteenth-Century Lives, Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley (Signed copy)
From the library of Morton N Cohen (contributor), with a handwritten letter to him from Jerome Buckley
Laurence S Lockridge, with John Maynard, & Donald D Stone (editors), bibliography compiled by David M Staines
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Where Did It All Go Right? (Signed copy)
Signed by Al Alvarez, an uncorrected proof copy
A. Alvarez
Richard Cohen Books / Metro, London, 1999
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Uncorrected proof
Irish Folk Music and Song
A brief study by Donal O'Sullivan
Donal O'Sullivan, illustrated by Muriel Brandt
Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin, 1956
£10.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Country Garden
1936, with glorious wood engravings by John Farleigh
Ethel Armitage, engraved by John Farleigh
Country Life, London, 1936
£15.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
West African Folk Tales
1917, many featuring Anansi, and illustrated by Cecilia Sinclair
William H Barker, and Cecilia Sinclair
George G. Harrap, London, 1917
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
This Other Eden
Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History
Andrea Wulf, and Emma Gieben-Gamal
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£25.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Patrick George: Recent Work
A 2003 exhibition catalogue, with 30 colour illustrations
Patrick George
Browse & Darby, London, 2003
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Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Agreement! (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Campbell; The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland
Beatrix Campbell
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 2008
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
In the Green Tree (Signed copy)
Signed by Alun Lewis's widow Gweno to Anne Powell, and was also Roy Fuller's review copy, with his notes.
Alun Lewis, preface by A L Rowse, postscript by Gwyn Jones, a sonnet by Vernon Watkins, and drawings by John Petts
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1948
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
