Browse by Attribute—First Editions

Two first UK editions of Simone de Beauvoir's novel and autobiography

Various, London, 1957

The first six issues for 1945 of this American industrial journal, with superb adverts

Practical Publications, Inc., Indianapolis, 1945

Somali Culture, Society and Politics, signed by Professor I M Lewis

Hurst and Company, London, 2010

1934, the fifteenth volume in the Centenary Edition of Leo Tolstoy's works

The Tolstoy Society / OUP, London, 1934

A French Great War history, signed by the author, Jean de Pierrefeu, to J J Frappa.

L'Edition Francais Illustree, Paris, 1920

Signed by Leslie A Fiedler to Arnold Wesker, a work of speculative fiction

Stein and Day, New York, 1974

Signed by Candace Robb, 1994, her first book and the first in the Owen Archer series

William Heinemann, London, 1994

1988, signed and dedicated by George Hayim

Quartet Books, London, 1988

First edition, 1919, with colour plates and trench humour

Cassell, London, 1919

Nottidge MacNamara's study of characteristics through the human skull

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1900

Collected and edited by E S Hartland

Walter Scott Publishing Co, Ltd, London, 1890

1963, the first UK edition of Stelios Galatopoulos's study of the Greek Prima Donna

Cunningham Bass, London, 1963

2008. Signed by Phil Rickman, the tenth book on the Merrily Watkins series

Quercus, London, 2008

2004. Signed by Phil Rickman, the sixth in the Merrily Watkins series

Macmillan, London, 2004

2003. Signed by Phil Rickman. The fifth in his Merrily Watkins series

Macmillan, London, 2003

1903, in a full leather prize binding from the Mary Datchelor Girl's School in Camberwell

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903

2017, the book to accompany the 2017 Lisson Gallery exhibition

Lisson Gallery, London, 2017

2017, the illustrated book of the Irish sculptor's New York solo show

Pace, London, 2017

2021, Joost van den Bergh's illustrated exhibtion book

Joost van den Bergh, London, 2021

1937, signed by H E Bates with Agnes Miller Parker's glorious wood engravings

Victor Gollancz, London, 1937

An early Lawrence Durrell collection of poetry, owned by his friend and fellow Cairo poet

Faber & Faber, London, 1946

Marcu Beza's examination of Roumania's pagan rites and their continuation into the twentieth century

J M Dent, London, 1928

Signed by Nigel Baker, his thorough illustrated history of the English border town

Oxbow, Oxford, 2010

A classic of Japanese folklore. translated by Judith Gautier, and with 12 colour plates by R Isayama

Editions de la Phosphatine Falieres, Paris, 1900

A first edition of E P Thompson's final book, a study of William Blake and the Moral Law

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993