Browse by Attribute—First Editions
One Hundred Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (1947)
In an attractive Barnett Freedman binding
John Rothenstein, binding design by Barnett Freedman
Tate Gallery, London, 1947
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Art Journal, New Series Volume IV, 1852
With 48 full-page plates including some superb steel engravings, and J M W Turner's obituary
Samuel Carter Hall
George Virtue, London, 1852
£70.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Family of Tufnell (1924, first edition)
A privately printed family history from Elizabethan times, and including the family's Great War service
E Bertha Tufnell
Privately printed, 1924
£50.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866, first edition)
A reading copy only, with nine engraved plates
James Ballantine
Adam and Charles Black, London, 1866
£70.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
A Passage to India (1924)
Second impression of E M Forster's final novel
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1924
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Girls Who Lie (Signed first edition)
Signed by Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, limited to 500 copies
Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb
Orenda Books, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Viriconium Nights (Signed first edition)
1985, signed and dedicated by M John Harrison
M John Harrison
Victor Gollancz, London, 1985
£80.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Horror in Architecture (2013, first edition)
A study of how architectural anomalies, "monstrosities," and grotesque forms challenge conventional design norms
Joshua Comaroff, and Ong Ker-shing
Oro Editions, Novato, CA, 2013
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
Wood-Block Printing (1916, first edition)
with a colour print tipped-in, designed and cut by the author
F Morley Fletcher, illustrated by the author and A W Seaby
John Hogg, London, 1916
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
L'Ame du Vin (1932, first edition)
French author Constantin-Weyer's lyrical celebration of wine
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Rieder Editeur, Paris, 1932
£15.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
Studio International Art, six bound copies January-June 1963
including Sean Kenny, L S Lowry, Keith Vauughan, Abram Games and many more
G S Whittet, editor
Longacre Press, London, 1963
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Modern Music, January-February 1944, Volume XXI, Number 2
with pieces by Paul Bowles, Serge Prokofiev, and Albert Frankenstein
Minna Lederman, editor
The League of Composers, New York, 1944
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
Letters from Julia (1897, signed by W T Stead)
A rare signed first edition of Stead's automatic writing communications from the deceased Julia A Ames
W T Stead
Grant Richards, London, 1897
£350.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Saturday Book 17, signed by Selma van de Perre
This copy owned by Selma van de Perre, WW2 Dutch resistance worker and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
John Hadfield
Hutchinson, London, 1957
£50.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, first edition, in a unique leather binding)
With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Les Bas-fonds de Constantinople (1892, first edition)
Paul de Regla expose of the underworld of Constantinople
Paul de Regla
Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1892
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Poems by Four Authors (1923, first edition)
J R Ackerley's first book
J R Ackerley, with A Y Campbell, E L Davison, and F H Kendon
Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1923
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Arabian Adventure (1979, first edition)
Kieth Miles' novelisation of the film of the same name
Keith Miles, after a screenplay by Brian Hayles
Mirror Books, London, 1979
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1968)
Second UK printing of Joe Millard's novelisation of the classic Spaghetti Western
Joe Millard, with another title by Brian Fox included
Tandem, London, 1968
£40.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
Black Sparta (1928, first edition)
Naomi Mitchison's stories of the Greek city-state Sparta
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1928
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Cloud Cuckoo Land (1926, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's novel of the Peloponnesian War and the eclipse of Athens
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1926
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
When the Bough Breaks (1924, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's short stories of the Roman Empire
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1924
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927, first edition)
Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto & Windus, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Life and Teaching of Jesus the Christ (1923, first edition)
This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board
Rt Rev Arthur Cayley Headlam
John Murray, London, 1923
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
C G Jung & Hermann Hesse, A Record of Two Friendships
1971, Miguel Serrano's personal recollections
Miguel Serrano, translated by Frank MacShane
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1971
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
