Browse by Attribute—First Editions

1959, John Farleigh's guide to decorating furniture and furnishings

George Bell & Sons, London, 1959

A 1929 prize-winning essay

Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929

and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)

Duckworth & Co, London, 1910

Essays from the Russian politician and writer, Roy A Medvedev

Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1976

Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome

Duckworth & Co, London, 1927

An early novel from Shaw Desmond

Duckworth & Co, London, 1922

An early novel from Shaw Desmond

Duckworth & Co, London, 1920

1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London

Jonathan Cape, London, 1968

1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson

Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962

including W H Auden, Stephen Spender and Julian Bell

The Hogarth Press, London, 1932

A Quotation from the Works of Henry David Thoreau for Every Day in the Year (1912)

Frank Palmer, London, 1912

1950, E H Carr's essays on Proudhon, Herzen, Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin etc

Macmillan, London, 1950

1915, a charming illustrated guide to finger plays for children

George W Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia, 1915

Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014–2016

Taschen, Koln, 2016

1874, a rare first edition with 109 hand-coloured plates by W H Fitch

Chapman & Hall, London, 1874

First edition, c1914

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914

A Study of Christoper Caudwell's Aesthetics

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1969

Multi-Racial Education and Social Disadvantage in London

Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1977

St Werburgh's before, during and after the Great War

Scotforth Books, 2017

1902, two essays from Charles Lamb in an attractive leather binding

De La More Press, London, 1902

Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992

1849, a rare first edition of the first history of the Marsh

John Russell Smith, London, 1849

An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas

Duckworth & Co, London, 1923

C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"

Chapman & Hall, London, 1921

This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb

Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929