Browse by Attribute—First Editions
The Silmarillion
1977, first printing, J R R Tolkien's account of the Elder Days
J R R Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Party Dress
1930, first edition in a cracking dustwrapper
Joseph Hergesheimer
Alfred A Knopf, London, 1930
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Anti-Nazi Germans (Signed copy)
Signed by Merilyn Moos
Merilyn Moos, and Steve Cushion, introduction by Ian Birchall
Community Languages, London, 2020
£25.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Sparkling Like Snow (Signed copy)
Signed by Katharine E Smith, book 8 of the Coming Back to Cornwall series
Katharine E Smith
Heddon Publishing, Shrewsbury, 2021
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Fine Companion
The Journal of a Caravan Trip from Oxford to Stratford-Upon-Avon in the Summer of 1914
Hilary Clare, editor
The EJO Society, Romsey, 2011
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Soft Cover | First Editions
Sisters at the Chalet School
Amy Fletcher's 2017 addition to Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series
Amy Fletcher
Girls Gone By Publishers, Coleford, 2017
£20.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Guides of the Chalet School
A 2009 first edition of Jane Berry's addition to the Elinor Brent-Dyer series
Jane Berry
Girls Gone By Publishers, Bath, 2009
£15.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions
Over Sea, Under Stone
1965, the first UK printing of the first book in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence
Susan Cooper, illustrated by Margery Gill
Jonathan Cape, London, 1965
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Thomas Stothard
The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England circa 1800
Shelley M Bennett
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1988
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Penguin Lessons, A True Story (Signed copy)
Signed by Tom Michell
Tom Michell
Penguin / Michael Joseph, London, 2015
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Life of Jonathan Martin, Incendiary of York Minster
1945, the life of a famous arsonist
Thomas Balston
Macmillan, London, 1945
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
As I rode out on the morning
Buck Ramsey's cowboy poetry
Buck Ramsey
Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 1993
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Born to Fight
A soldier's autobiography, including his time with the French Foreign Legion at Gallipoli
A R Cooper
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1969
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
This Smoking World
1928, A history of smoking, and why people smoke etc etc
A E Hamilton, introductory essay by Sir Montague Sherman
Methuen, London, 1928
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Bermondsey Story, The Life of Alfred Salter
Fenner Brockway's political biography of Salter, in a dustwrapper by Arthur Wragg
Fenner Brockway, dustwrapper & endpapers by Arthur Wragg
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
£35.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
How to be Happy in London
1926—a wonderful guide of Life in London by Victor MacClure
Victor MacClure
J W Arrowsmith, London, 1926
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Earth Transformed, An Untold History (Signed copy)
A special edition signed by Peter Frankopan and with sprayed edges.
Peter Frankopan
Bloomsbury, London, 2023
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Outsiders, An Art without Precedent or Tradition
1979, the seminal exhibition with text by Victor Musgrave and Roger Cardinal
Roger Cardinal, essay, and Victor Musgrave (preface)
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1979
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Fountains in the Sand
1912, first edition of Norman Douglas's travels among the oases of Tunisia
Norman Douglas
Martin Secker, London, 1912
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
William Blake Richmond, An Artist's Life 1842–1921
An illustrated biography by Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds
Michael Russell, Norwich, 1995
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Unfinished Autobiography (Signed copy)
With signed note from Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray, with contributions by his friends
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1960
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Brumroamin (Signed copy)
With postcard signed by Ted Rudge, "Birmingham and Midland Romany Gypsy and Traveller Culture"
Ted Rudge, edited by Doreen Hopwood and Martin Flynn
Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, 2003
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Loyalty & Honour, The Indian Army September 1939—August 1947
Part I: Divisions—a comprehensive history
Chris Kempton
The Military Press, Milton Keynes, 2003
£25.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Cattle King
1936, Ion L Idriess's tribute to Sir Sidney Kidman
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1936
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Zoo Quest for a Dragon
1957, first edition of David Attenborough's second book
David Attenborough
Lutterworth Press, London, 1957
£25.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
