Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper
Pillion Riders
A first printing of Elisabeth Russell Taylor's novel of the conflicting demands of passion and morality
Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Peter Owen, London, 1993
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wizard from Vienna
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism
Vincent Buranelli
Peter Owen, London, 1976
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Journal of a London Playgoer
1974 edition of Morley's account of theatre trips 1851–1866
Henry Morley, with an introduction by Michael R Booth
Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1974
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Lambretta Serviceman's Book
2nd edition, c1960, a decent copy
D B Palmer, photography by K G Palmer
Lambretta Concessionaires Ltd, Croydon, 1960
£25.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Sophie Ryder (Signed copy)
A study of the sculptor's work, signed by Sophie Ryder
Jonathan Benington
Lund Humphries, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914–1918
Volume 2: The Tide of Victory, from the Salonica Campaign of 1916 to the Armistice
Edmund Dane
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919
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Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Aeschylus and Athens
George Thomson's study of Athenian drama and democracy
George Thomson
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
A Mirror to My Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Perle Hessing
Perle Hessing
Henry Holt, New York, 1988
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Opposing Man
1974, the first UK edition of Ernst Fischer's autobiography
Ernst Fischer, with an introduction by John Berger, translated by Peter and Betty Ross
Allen Lane, London, 1974
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Samuel Palmer, The Sketchbook of 1824
A facsimile of the only one of Palmer's sketchbooks to survive
Martin Butlin, editor, with a foreword by William Vaughan
Thames and Hudson, London, 2005
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Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteenth-Century Lives, Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley (Signed copy)
From the library of Morton N Cohen (contributor), with a handwritten letter to him from Jerome Buckley
Laurence S Lockridge, with John Maynard, & Donald D Stone (editors), bibliography compiled by David M Staines
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Art and Illusion
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
E H Gombrich
Phaidon, London, 1962
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
This Other Eden
Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History
Andrea Wulf, and Emma Gieben-Gamal
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£25.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In the Green Tree (Signed copy)
Signed by Alun Lewis's widow Gweno to Anne Powell, and was also Roy Fuller's review copy, with his notes.
Alun Lewis, preface by A L Rowse, postscript by Gwyn Jones, a sonnet by Vernon Watkins, and drawings by John Petts
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1948
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Why is British Architecture so Lousy?
1980, a fascinating range of views from architects, planners, critics...
Nathan Silver, and Jos Boys, editors
Newman Communications, London, 1980
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Jiri Jilek
A study of the Czech painter and sculptor
Miroslav Korsal
Galerie Jiriho Jilka, Sumperk, 1993
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Cunning Little Vixen
1986, the first UK edition, beautifully illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Rudolf Tesnohlidek, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
The Bodley Head, London, 1986
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fasting, Feasting (Signed copy)
Signed by Anita Desai, the first printing
Anita Desai
Chatto & Windus, London, 1999
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mourning Ruby (Signed copy)
Signed by Helen Dunmore, the first printing
Helen Dunmore
Penguin / Viking, London, 2003
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fate of the Revolution
Walter Laqueuer's Interpretations of Soviet History
Walter Laqueur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967
£10.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Little History of British Gardening (Signed copy)
Signed by Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow
Chatto & Windus, London, 2004
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
David Hockney Portraits
2006, a profusely illustrated study of the artist's portraits
Sarah Howgate, and Barbara Stern Shapiro, with essays by Mark Glazebrook, Marco Livingstone and Edmund White
National Portrait Gallery, London, 2006
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
High Wycombe Furniture
Lawrence Weaver's treatise on Buckingham furniture
Lawrence Weaver
The Fanfare Press, London, 1929
£20.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge
from the library of author, historian and anthologist, Anne Powell
Anthony Berridge, editor, with a memoir by Jesse Berridge
Enitharmon Press, London, 1983
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Course of Empire
The Arabs and their Successors (1965, 1st), volume three of Glubb Pasha's Arab History
John Bagot Glubb, aka Glubb Pasha
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1965
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History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
