Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Death at the Chateau (Signed copy)
Signed by Ian Moore
Ian Moore
Farrago, London, 2023
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Troubled Mind of Mary Shelley (Signed copy)
Signed by Wendy Louise Bardsley
Wendy Louise Bardsley
Methuen, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
1972, Freddie Young's authoritative guide
Freddie Young, and Paul Petzold, preface by Sir Michael Balcon
Focal Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Second Stage Lensmen
1953, the fifth Lensman story of E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1953
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Grey Lensman
1951, the fourth Lensman book by E E "Doc" Smith
Edward E Smith, Ph.D, aka E E "Doc" Smith, illustrated by Ric Binkley
Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1951
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Winged Victory (Signed copy)
Signed by Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas, as well as Battle of Britain ace Dennis David, German air ace Gunther Rall and aviation artist Michael Turner
J E 'Johnnie' Johnson, and P B 'Laddie' Lucas
Stanley Paul, London, 1995
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Stapme, The Biography of Squadron Leader Basil Gerald Stapleton (Signed copy)
Signed by Sq. Leader Stapleton, David Ross (author) and Nicolas Trudgian (dustwrapper artist)
David Ross. Dustwrapper art by Nicolas Trudgian
Grub Street, London, 2002
£50.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rowland Mason Ordish, original documents pertaining to Albert Bridge, 1857–1871
with an original drawing by Max Ende, and a signed copy of Harold Hartley's Eight Eight—Not Out (1939)
Rowland Mason Ordish, and including Max Ende, Harold T Hartley and Charles Wessely
Not Published, London, n.d.
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Handwritten | Association Copy
Reproduction in Antelopes
Reproduction in the Female Impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichenstein, 1812)
F I B Kayanja
East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1972
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Hausa-English Dictionary and English-Hausa Vocabulary
Compiled for the Government of Nigeria. With Some Notes on the Hausa People and their Language by Professor D Westermann
The Rev G P Bargery
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1951
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
Poems of The Land Army
1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army
Vita Sackville-West, (foreword)
The Land Girl, London, 1945
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Hsi-yu Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (Monkey)
Glen Dudbridge
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Tale of Li Wa
Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century
Glen Dudbridge
Ithaca Press, London, 1983
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Folk Song in England
1967, a first edition of A L Loyd's seminal study
A L Lloyd
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1967
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vain Glory (Signed copy)
This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.
Guy Chapman, editor
Cassell, London, 1937
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Paul Nash, The Master of Image 1889–1946
with 144 illustrations
Margot Eates, preface by C Day Lewis
John Murray, London, 1973
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
D-ANOY bezwingt den Pamir
An account of a pioneering German flight in 1937, with contemporary ephemera
Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz
Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
More Than a Brother (Signed copy)
Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967
Carol Z Rothkopf, and Barry Webb
Sexton Press, London, 1996
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
Letters from India (Signed copy)
Alun Lewis's letters from active service, signed twice by his wife, Gweno Lewis
Alun Lewis, with a note by Mrs Alun Lewis, and a Preface by A L Rowse
Penmark Press, Cardiff, 1946
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Association Copy
A Dream Observed and Other Poems (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu
Anne Ridler
Poetry London, London, 1941
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Poems, Letters, Life (4 vols)
All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, and Hilda D Spear
Cecil Woolf, London, 1985
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Story of Joan of Arc
1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel
Pamela Glenconner
The Chiswick Press, London, 1915
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Arnander
Christopher Arnander, editor
Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper