Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex (1937)
The RCHM's detailed report, with maps, plans and photographs
RCHM
HMSO, London, 1937
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Guide to 25 Languages of Europe (1932, first edition)
Archibald Lyall's phrase-book, in a striking dustwrapper
Archibald Lyall
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1932
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Language | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Gilbert and Sullivan Dictionary (1936, first edition)
An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
George E Dunn
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Defence of the Earth (1959, first edition)
A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance
Kenneth Rexroth
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1947, first edition)
A selection from nine modern Chinese poets
Robert Payne, editor and introduction
Routledge, London, 1947
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Bad Lord Byron (1949, first edition)
"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film
Sydney Box, and Vivian Cox, introduction by Dennis Price
Convoy Publications, London, 1949
£40.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The White Spider (1960)
A second impression of Heinrich Harrer's 'History of the Eiger's North Face'
Heinrich Harrer, translated from the German by Hugh Merrick
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1960
£15.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In the Steps of the Brontes (1948, first edition)
Ernest Raymond's study in the uncommon dustwrapper
Ernest Raymond
Rich & Cowan, London, 1948
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Ismailis, An Illustrated History (2008, first edition)
2008, a very good copy of this important study
Farhad Daftary, and Zulfikar Hirji
Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008
£50.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Ice Monkey and Other Stories (1983, signed first edition)
Signed and dedicated by M John Harrison
M John Harrison, dustwrapper design by Eddie Gornall
Victor Gollancz, London, 1983
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Farmer Giles of Ham (1971)
The eighth impression of Tolkien's comic medieval fable
J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Littlehampton Bequest (Signed limited edition, 1973)
No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'
Osbert Lancaster, with a foreword by Roy Strong
John Murray, London, 1973
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Thinking the Unthinkable (1994, signed first edition)
Signed by Richard Cockett, his study of "Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931–1983"
Richard Cockett
HarperCollins, London, 1994
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ficciones (First UK edition, 1962)
Jorge Luis Borges seminal short stories, in the original dustwrapper
Jorge Luis Borges, edited with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Dustwrapper by Ralph Mabey
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Saturday Book 17, signed by Selma van de Perre
This copy owned and signed by Selma van de Perre, WW2 Dutch resistance worker and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
John Hadfield
Hutchinson, London, 1957
£50.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fencing with the Sabre, Introduction and Technique (1965)
Second edition of Roger Crosnier's instructive book
Roger Crosnier, preface by Roger Tredgold, illustrations by Kaye Gibson
Faber & Faber, London, 1965
£25.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
To Throw Away Unopened (Signed first edition)
Signed and dedciated by Viv Albertine
Viv Albertine
Faber & Faber, London, 2018
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Nurse Matilda Trilogy (2005, in slipcase)
Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town, & Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital, all with Edward Ardizzone's wonderful illustrations
Christianna Brand, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Bloomsbury, London, 2005
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Childrens | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
The Week-End Book (1928, in the original dustwrapper)
Illustrated with full page colour decorations by Albert Rutherston
Nonesuch Press, illustrated by Albert Rutherston
The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (1958, first edition)
Our Town; The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1958
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mr Noselighter (1976, signed first edition)
Signed by Roger McGough
Roger McGough, illustrated by Andre Francois
G Whizzard / Andre Deutsch, London, 1976
£50.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The People of Kau (1976, signed by Leni Riefenstahl)
A signed first printing of Reifenstahl's time with the Nuba of Kau
Leni Riefenstahl, translated by J Maxwell Brownjohn
Collins, London, 1976
£100.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Interviews with American Artists
David Sylvester's talks with Cy Twombly, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein etc
David Sylvester
Chatto & Windus, London, 2001
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf
A 1994 facsimile of S B Miles' 1920 two volume edition
Colonel S B MIles, introduction by Robin Bidewell
Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1994
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
