Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Military History of Late Rome 395–425
The third book in this ambitious series
Ilkka Syvanne
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2020
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Small Island
The first printing of the first edition, 2014
Andrea Levy
Review, London, 2014
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Greyhound for Breakfast (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by James Kelman
James Kelman
Secker & Warburg, London, 1987
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Africa; The Roots of Revolt (Signed copy)
Signed Jack Woddis in 1960
Jack Woddis
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1960
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Strange Tales from "Vanity Fair"
c1875, by Silly Billy, 28 short sketches, and with ownership signature of Horace Pym
Silly Billy, pseud Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray
"Vanity Fair" Office, London, 1875
On Hold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
They Went
Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1920
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Adventure in Algeria (Signed copy)
Signed by Brian Stuart, an account of his time in the French Foreign Legion and trek across the Sahara
Brian Stuart
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£70.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
New Daughters of Africa (Signed copy)
Signed by Margaret Busby (editor) and Patience Agbabi (poet, contributor)
Margaret Busby, editor
Myriad, Oxford, 2019
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Discover London in 2 Days Leisurely
1969, with pen and ink drawings by Andrew Dodds
Charles Loewenthal, (text), black & white maps by Michael Hoad, drawings by Andrew Dodds
Loewenthal / Carney, London, 1969
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Duenna
Signed by Nigel Playfair, this edition issued for his production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with an introduction by Nigel Playfair, and illustrations by George Sheringham
Constable, London, 1925
£20.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Undesirable Alien
Regis Debray's novel of revolutionaries
Regis Debray, translated by Rosemary Sheed
Allen Lane, London, 1978
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Riallaro, The Archipelago of Exiles
1901, a rare first edition of a lost race satirical novel
Godfrey Sweven, (pseud. John MacMillan Brown)
G P Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Edgar Allan Poe Bedside Book
Tales written by, read by, and influenced by Edgar Allan Poe
Peter Haining, editor
Victor Gollancz, London, 1980
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Ant Colony (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Francis King
Francis King
Constable, London, 1991
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve (Signed copy)
Signed by Francis King
Francis King
Constable, London, 1996
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Down the River (Signed copy)
Signed by H E Bates, the first edition of 1937
H E Bates, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
Victor Gollancz, London, 1937
£52.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
One Day (Signed copy)
This copy inscribed by Nancy Cunard to Raymond Mortimer, the fifth book published by The Hours Press
Norman Douglas
The Hours Press, Chapelle-Reanville, 1929
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Association Copy
Trances
1966, a study of trance rites and shamanistic skills
Stewart Wavell, with Audrey Butt and Nina Epton
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1966
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Protestant Tradition, An Essay in Interpretation
from the library of early female minister, Rev Kathleen M Hendry
J S Whale
University Press, Cambridge, 1955
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Alvar Aalto, Between Humanism and Materialism
1998 exhibition book for the great Finnish architect
Peter Reed, editor, , essays by Kenneth Frampton, Pekka Korvenmaa, Juhani Pallasmaa, Peter Reed and Marc Treib
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Devil and Scripture
Leszek Kolakowski's The Key to Heaven and Talk of the Devil
Leszek Kolakowski, translated from the Polish by Nicholas Bethell and Celina Wieniewska
Oxford University Press, London, 1973
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ramayana in Palm Leaf Pictures, Citraramayana
A 15th century illustrated version of the Ramayana
Dr K Vijayan
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 1997
£25.00
Classics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Sundials at an Oxford College
An account of the creation and restoration of the Corpus Christi College sundials
Philip Pattenden
Roman Books, Oxford, 1979
£15.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | First Editions
Metroburbia, The Anatomy of Greater London (2017)
and London: Architecture, Building and Social Change (2015)—two studies of the metropolis by Paul Knox
Paul L Knox
Merrell, London, 2017
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Travels Lesson on the Old Testament
1904—the book to accompany the stereographs
William Byron Forbush
Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1904
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
