Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Why is British Architecture so Lousy?
1980, a fascinating range of views from architects, planners, critics...
Nathan Silver, and Jos Boys, editors
Newman Communications, London, 1980
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Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Figurabile: Francis Bacon
1993, a profusely illustrated exhibition book from the 45th Venice Biennale
Achille Bonito Oliva, editor
Electa, Milan, 1993
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Jiri Jilek
A study of the Czech painter and sculptor
Miroslav Korsal
Galerie Jiriho Jilka, Sumperk, 1993
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Cunning Little Vixen
1986, the first UK edition, beautifully illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Rudolf Tesnohlidek, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
The Bodley Head, London, 1986
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mourning Ruby (Signed copy)
Signed by Helen Dunmore, the first printing
Helen Dunmore
Penguin / Viking, London, 2003
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fate of the Revolution
Walter Laqueuer's Interpretations of Soviet History
Walter Laqueur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967
£10.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Top Secret War Bird of World War Two
Photographic records of D-Day preparations including a flying jeep...
Robin Bird
Lord Birdforth, 2004
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Little History of British Gardening (Signed copy)
Signed by Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow
Chatto & Windus, London, 2004
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Proceedings of the Synod of the Presyterian Church of England 1906–1920
A record of meetings and rules etc
Samuel William Carruthers
Presbyterian Church of England, London, 1923
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ars Nova
German artist Anselm Reyle's works of four and six colours
Anselm Reyle, essays by Bruce Hainley and Dominic Eichler
JRP-Ringier, Zurich, 2006
£30.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hockney Portraits
2006, a profusely illustrated study of the artist's portraits
Sarah Howgate, and Barbara Stern Shapiro, with essays by Mark Glazebrook, Marco Livingstone and Edmund White
National Portrait Gallery, London, 2006
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chile, Reality and Prospects of Popular Unity
1972, an elusive title
Kate Clark
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
Oils, Pigments, Paints & Varnishes etc
1922, Rupert Truelove's treatise on protective and decorative coatings
Rupert H Truelove
Isaac Pitman, London, 1922
£30.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions
High Wycombe Furniture
Lawrence Weaver's treatise on Buckingham furniture
Lawrence Weaver
The Fanfare Press, London, 1929
£20.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Album Aragon
1997, published in Gallimard's Bibliothèque De La Pléiade series
Jean Ristat, editor
Librairie Gallimard / NRF, Paris, 1997
£30.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Slipcase
Ask for King Billy
The first printing of Henry Treece's adventure story
Henry Treece, drawings by Richard Kennedy
Faber & Faber, London, 1955
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nomenklatura
Anatomy of the Soviet Ruling Class (1984)
Michael Voslensky, with a preface by Milovan Djilas. Translated by Eric Mosbacher
The Bodley Head, London, 1984
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Real "Lady of the Camellias"
and Other Women of Quality (1927)
Charles A Dolph
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1927
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
1918 Souvenir of the Welsh Division
including a memorial to Hedd Wynn, the Welsh poet killed in 1917
Jeffery E Jeffery, editor
Western Mail Ltd, Cardiff and London, 1918
£40.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of Hilda Carline
A study of the art of Stanley Spencer's first wife
Alison Thomas, edited by Timothy Wilcox, foreword by Frances Spalding
Lund Humphries, London, 1999
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Ancient Faces
Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
Susan Walker, and Morris Bierbrier, with Paul Roberts and John Taylor
The British Museum Press, London, 1997
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Not to Disturb
Muriel Spark’s story of a twisted murder plot
Muriel Spark
Macmillan, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fifty-Two Fairy Tales
with illustrations by Beryl Ash
Robert Brandon, editor, illustrated by Beryl Ash
Hutchinson, London, 1935
£12.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Modern Century
A huge survey of the photographer's work
Peter Galassi
Thames and Hudson, London, 2010
£35.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The First World War (Signed copy)
Signed by Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell, with her many enclosures
Martin Gilbert
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995
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History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
