Browse by Attribute—First Editions
They Fought for Freedom (Four volumes)
Biographies of South African fighters for freedom and justice: Yusuf Dadoo, Helen Joseph, Dora Tamana, and Lilian Ngoyi
John Pampallis, series editor. Authors: Venitha Soobrayan, Julie Frederikse, Jane Rosenthal, Dianne Stewart
Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town, 1995
£16.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Little Golden America
1944, Russian humourists Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov's tour of 1930s America
Ilya Ilf, and Eugene Petrov, translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1944
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
A History of Warfare (Signed first edition)
Signed by John Keegan
John Keegan
Hutchinson, London, 1993
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Architecture, Nature and Magic (1956, first edition)
W R Lethaby's papers on his theory of architecture
W R Lethaby, with a biographical note by Alfred Powell
Duckworth & Co, London, 1956
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound
The Selected Writings of John Cornford
John Cornford, edited by Jonathan Galassi
Carcanet New Press, Manchester, 1976
£16.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Radio Recombination Lines [Astrophysics]
1980, first edition, Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 24–25, 1979 (Astrophysics & Space Science Library No 80)
P A Shaver, editor, contributors include Daniel Kleppner, Jacqueline van Gorkom, Yervant Terzian, Peter G Mezger, Nino Panagia, Robert L Brown, Edith Falgarone, Jay Lockman, Edward Churchwell, and James S Mathis amongst others.
D Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1980
£50.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Redevelopment of Central Areas
1947, a town planning guide written in the aftermath of the Second World War
Ministry of Town and Country P
HMSO, London, 1947
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Firebird 1, Writing Today (1982, signed first edition)
Graham Swift has signed and dated his short story, The Watch
T J Binding, editor, contributors include Graham Swift, William Trevor, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter.
Penguin Books / Allen Lane, London, 1982
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Memoriam, James Gordon Smith (1899)
Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son
Samuel Smith, MP, with sermons by Rev George Johnstone, Rev A J Doull, and Rev J J Muir
Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Carved Masonry Domes of Mediaeval Cairo
An illustrated architectural study
Christine Kessler
The American University in Cairo Press, London, 1976
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Francis Bacon
2008, the Tate Gallery's reassessment of Francis Bacon's importance
Matthew Gale, and Chris Stephens (editors)
Tate Gallery, London, 2008
£16.50
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Impressionist & the City; Pissarro's Series Paintings
A study of Camille Pissarro's later urban painting
Richard R Brettell, and Joachim Pissarro, edited by Mary Anne Stevens
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1993
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Trap (Signed uncorrected proof)
Signed by Catherine Ryan Howard and her father, John.
Catherine Ryan Howard
Bantam Press, London, 2023
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Rudyard Kipling, An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about him
Complete in 3 volumes, an impressive work of bibliography
Morton N Cohen, with Helmut E Gerber, Edward S Lauterbach et al
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1960
£35.00
Reference & Bibliography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Man-Made Gemstones (first edition)
1979, Dennis Elwell's guide to the methods of making gemstones
Dennis Elwell
Ellis Horwood Publishers, Chichester, 1979
£30.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
1914 and Other Poems
1915, tenth impression in a scarce original dustwrapper.
Rupert Brooke, with an introductory note by Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reel to Real, A Life in Film (Signed first edition)
Signed by Noel Cronin
Noel Cronin
Talking Pictures TV, 2021
£20.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Winter Solstice (Signed first edition)
Signed by Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2000
£27.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sunward by Yeoward (Signed limited edition)
The Story of Yeoward of Liverpool, the First 100 Years
Theodore W S Barry
Granta Editions, Cambridge, 1994
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
War and Peace in the Space Age
1959, US officer James Gavin's warnings over the future of warfare
Lt.-Gen James Gavin, introduction by Lt.-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£15.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow
1934, pioneering conservationist F W Champion's description and photography of jungle animals
F W Champion
Chatto & Windus, London, 1934
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Lore of the Land
1982, first edition of John Seymour's classic of land husbandry
John Seymour, illustrated by Sally Seymour
Whittet Books, Weybridge, 1982
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg (Namibia)
Part IV Umuab and Karoab Gorges (Volume 2 only), with 10 large fold out plates
Harald Pager
Heinrich-Barth-Institut, Koln, 1998
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Scottish Parliament, Its Construction and Procedure 1603–1707.
This copy signed by Scottish journalist James Bone to Scottish composer Iain Hamilton
Charles Sandford Terry
James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1905
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
Confessions of an Art Addict
1960, a first edition of Peggy Guggenheim's memoir
Peggy Guggenheim
Andre Deutsch, London, 1960
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
