Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Transatlantic Review 9
1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson
J F McCrindle, editor
Transatlantic Review, London and New York, 1962
£20.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Soft Cover | First Editions
Hogarth Living Poets No 24: New Signatures
including W H Auden, Stephen Spender and Julian Bell
Michael Roberts, editor
The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Studies in Revolution
1950, E H Carr's essays on Proudhon, Herzen, Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin etc
E H Carr
Macmillan, London, 1950
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers
Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014–2016
Christo, and Jeanne-Claude, photographs by Wolfgang Volz, picture commentary by Jonathan Henery and Wolfgang Volz
Taschen, Koln, 2016
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Illustrations of the Principle Natural Orders of the Vegetable Kingdom
1874, a rare first edition with 109 hand-coloured plates by W H Fitch
Professor Daniel Oliver, illustrated by W H Fitch
Chapman & Hall, London, 1874
£300.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Function of Literature
A Study of Christoper Caudwell's Aesthetics
David N Margolies
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1969
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The West Indian Experience in British Schools
Multi-Racial Education and Social Disadvantage in London
Raymond Giles
Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1977
£15.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Soft Cover | First Editions
A War-torn Chester Parish
St Werburgh's before, during and after the Great War
Ann Marie Curtis, et al
Scotforth Books, 2017
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | 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
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
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
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£30.00
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
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
