Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
1961, first edition, a complete translation of the cycle of 32 plays
Martial Rose, editor
Evans Brothers, London, 1961
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Kicking Against the Pricks, A Theatre Producer Looks Back
with a signed postcard from Oscar Lewenstein to set designer Douglas Heap
Oscar Lewenstein
Nick Hern Books, London, 1994
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Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Return of the Shadow
1989, 1st/2nd, the history of The Lord of the Rings, part one
J R R Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
Unwin Hyman, London, 1989
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Sam Pig Storybook
1965, first edition, with 35 Sam Pig stories
Alison Uttley, illustrated by Cecil Leslie
Faber & Faber, London, 1965
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Normal People
The true first printing of 2018
Sally Rooney
Faber & Faber, London, 2018
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
No Snow in Latching
1949, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pigeon Hoo
A novel of a young couple moving to a farmhouse in Tenterden in the years after the Great War
Franklin Lushington, dustwrapper by R Hartman
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Masquerade; The Lives of Noel Coward (Signed copy)
Signed by Oliver Soden
Oliver Soden
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2023
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House
A sumptuous history of the Derbyshire house
John-Paul Stonard, foreword by The Duke of Devonshire & The Duchess of Devonshire photography by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Art Direction by Huw Morgan
Particular Books, London, 2021
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
One by One
1965, Penelope Gilliatt's first novel
Penelope Gilliatt
Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | 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
