Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Dream Children, A Reverie, and The Child Angel, A Dream
1902, two essays from Charles Lamb in an attractive leather binding
Charles Lamb
De La More Press, London, 1902
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Art in the Light of Conscience (Signed copy)
Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated & edited by Angela Livingstone
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The History of Romney Marsh from its Earliest Formation to 1837
1849, a rare first edition of the first history of the Marsh
William Holloway
John Russell Smith, London, 1849
£100.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
David Leach, A Potter's Life with Workshop Notes (Signed copy)
Signed and dated by David Leach
David Leach, edited by Robert Fournier
Fournier Pottery, Lacock, 1977
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Crafts | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Oxfordshire Annals, 1869 (Signed copy)
Signed by John Marriott Davenport to Horatio Nelson Goddard, JP
John Marriott Davenport
E W Morris, Oxford, 1869
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Silversmithing
1983, Finegold and Seitz's classic book
Rupert Finegold, and William Seitz
Krause Publications, Iowa, 1983
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Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Dark Island
1934, a Hogarth Press first edition of Vita Sackville-West's novel
Vita Sackville-West, with map drawn by Ben Nicolson
The Hogarth Press, London, 1934
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Lady Killer
1957, first edition of this murder thriller
William M Hardy
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology
1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Crusader's Christmas
c1890, covers cut in the shape of the crusader's armour, and with super lithographs
Broadbrim, illustrations by Frank Feller
The Art Lithographic Publishing Co, Munich & New York, 1890
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Long Whip
The Story of a Great Husky (in Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition)
Jane Brevoort Walden, and Stuart D L Paine
Chapman & Hall, London, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997
A series of essays
Carol Margaret Davison, editor
Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1997
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Sun Queen & People of the Twilight
Two weird fiction first editions from H Kaner
Hyman Kaner, dustwrapper design by H W Perl
The Kaner Publishing Company, Llandudno, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay
J Sheridan Le Fanu's ghost story, including Madam Crowl's Ghost
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, introduction by Herbert Van Thal, frontispiece and wrapper by Felix Kelly
Home and Van Thal Ltd, London, 1947
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Marriage of Anne
1927, a Jazz Age romance from Concordia Merrel
Concordia Merrel, dustwrapper design by John Drew
George H Doran, New York, 1927
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
"Holmes, This is Amazing", Essays in Unorthodox Research (Signed copy)
Signed by Roger Lancelyn Green to Morton N Cohen
Roger Lancelyn Green
Privately printed, London, 1975
£120.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Farmer's Year, Being his Commonplace Book for 1898 (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by gardener William Robinson from Gravetye
Henry Rider Haggard
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1899
£250.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
The Scots Kitchen
1931 (seventh impression); Its Traditions and Lore with Old-Time Recipes
F Marian McNeill
Blackie & Son, London & Glasgow, 1931
On Hold
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus of Plato
1793, the first English translation by Thomas Taylor
Plato, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor
Benjamin and John White, London, 1793
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Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Bombardment of Scarbro by the Russian Fleet in 1891
1889, a rare, humorous, addition to Invasion Literature
Untruthful Thomas
Crown Publishing Co (Bonnett & Shum), London, 1889
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Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
Journal of a Route Across India, through Egypt, to England
1819, Fitzclarence's account of the journey, with maps and hand-coloured aquatint plates
Lt.-Col. George August Fitzclarence
John Murray, London, 1819
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
