Browse by Attribute—First Editions

1819, Fitzclarence's account of the journey, with maps and hand-coloured aquatint plates

John Murray, London, 1819

Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington

Macmillan, London, 1937

Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915

1927, Gertrude Trevelyan's first work and winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927

Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard

The Naldrett Press, London, 1954

Signed by Ian Moore

Farrago, London, 2023

Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley

Methuen, London, 2021

1944, 1st US edition

Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944

1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide

Focal Press, London, 1972

1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith

Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953

1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith

Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951

Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)

Grub Street, London, 2002

Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)

East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972

1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army

The Land Girl, London, 1945

A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970

Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century

Ithaca Press, London, 1983

This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.

Cassell, London, 1937

Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967

Sexton Press, London, 1996

Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu

Poetry London, London, 1941

All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster

Cecil Woolf, London, 1985

Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem

Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999

1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel

The Chiswick Press, London, 1915

Signed by Christopher Arnander

Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013

1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War

Coward-McCann, New York, 1928

A Tribute to the Honourable Edward Wyndham Tennant, Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1897–1916

Anne Powell, Salisbury, 1990