Browse by Attribute—First Editions

1778, a rare first edition of Dutch philosopher Frans Hemsterhuis's dialogue

Not stated, Paris, 1778

John Wallis's abridgment of Thomas Pennant's Of London, with four plates

W Bentley, London, 1790

Both from the library of Elizabeth von Arnim with her signature and ex libris plate

John Murray, London, 1899

Our Town; The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1958

1757, first edition. Their travels around the Levant and North Africa

J Smith, Dublin, 1757

Signed by Roger McGough

G Whizzard / Andre Deutsch, London, 1976

Signed and dedicated by Leni Riefenstahl

Collins, London, 1976

A rare signed copy of W T Stead's automatic writing communications from the deceased Julia A Ames

Grant Richards, London, 1897

David Sylvester's talks with Cy Twombly, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein etc

Chatto & Windus, London, 2001

1986, the first edition of this introductory guide to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism

Nichiren Shoshu International Centre, Tokyo, 1986

Signed by the artist, Aristide Maillol, and additionally inscribed by Anton Zwemmer to E L T Mesens

A Zwemmer, London, 1937

In an attractive full leather Christ's Hospital prize binding, given in 1924

Christophers, London, 1923

Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...

The Rotary Press, London, 1926

This copy signed by racing enthusiast G H S Dixon

Michael Joseph, London, 1957

Fridtjof Nansen's attempted trek to the North Pole

George Newnes, London, 1898

Benjamin Samuel Williams's first book, 'containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants'

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

Signed by the author, Francis K Mason, and six RAF Hurricane pilots

Aston Press, Bourne End, 1987

Cruises on the Ellesmere and Oxford Canals in pre-war England

Heath Cranton, London, 1921

in the original dustwrapper

Readers Library, London, 1928

E W Blackburn's study of the philology and etymology of words

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911

Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923

Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923

Poems from minor Modernist poet B G Brooks, printed in Dijon by Maurice Darentierre

Privately printed, Dijon, 1927

Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality

P S King & Son, London, 1915

Seven short stories by St John Lucas

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913

An illustrated history of the regiment and its service

Third Millennium, London, 2007