Browse by Attribute—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
Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Larn
Richard Larn
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1977
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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
Four books on / about the Church of Scotland
including two signed by R Stuart Loudon, served as minister, chaplain on the Western Desert in WW2 and was a POW
R Stuart Loudon, and others
Various, London, Edinburgh etc, n.d.
£25.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy | Early printed music
Timothy Richard of China
1924, rare first edition of William Soothill biography of the Welsh Baptist missionary to China
William E Soothill, with a foreword by The Right Hon. Sir John N Jordan
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1924
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Visual Arts and the Law
A Handbook for Professionals
Judith B Prowda
Lund Humphries, London, 2013
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Choice of Flowers, Chaguo la Maua
An Anthology of Swahili Love Poetry
Jan Knappert, translator
William Heinemann, London, 1972
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Genes, Cells and Brains (Signed copy)
Signed by Hilary and Steven Rose. The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Hilary Rose, and Steven Rose
Verso, London, 2012
£15.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Designing a House
Charles Jencks & Terry Farrell's conversion of a Victorian London terrace house
Charles Jencks, and Terry Farrell
AD Editions Ltd, London, 1986
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Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
Tea Share Manual 1958
The value of tea producing companies in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Africa and Indonesia
Louis G Stephens, and C J Dwight
Jones & Cornelius, London, 1958
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Four Graham Ison signed thrillers
Confirm or Deny, The Home Secretary Will See You Now, Lost or Found, and Jack in the Box
Graham Ison
Various, London and New York, n.d.
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper