Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Midnight on the Place Pigalle
1932, first UK edition of Maurice Dekobra's Minuit... Place Pigalle
Maurice Dekobra, translated from the French by Metcalfe Wood, with twelve woodcuts by Jean Oberle
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations
H R Dickinson, illustrated by A S Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, F C Dickinson, Charles Dixon, W Hatherell, H M Paget, Balliol Salmon, and the author.
Printed for the Author(s), 1906
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Robert Buhler (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Buhler
Colin Hayes
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1986
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
The Long Fourth & other stories
1948, Peter Taylor's first collection of short stories
Peter Taylor, introduction by Robert Penn Warren
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1948
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
New Peace County (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Ng & Hugh Baker, a Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region
Peter Y L Ng, with additional material by Hugh D R Baker
Hong Kong University Press, 1983
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Third Dimension, Voices from Radio 3
with bookplate of Leonard Miall, journalist and contributor and a handwritten letter from the publisher
Philip French, editor.
The Stourton Press, London, 1983
£30.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Association Copy
Strange Fruit
Lillian Smith's debut novel of interracial love
Lillian Smith, dustwrapper by Hans Tisdall
The Cresset Press, London, 1945
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Eight Weeks; Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Baroness Lola Young
Baroness Lola Young
Fig Tree, Penguin, London, 2024
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
After The Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi
Donald V Coers, with Paul D Ruffin and Robert J DeMott (editors)
Ohio University Press, Athens, 1995
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia (Signed copy)
Signed by Paul Willetts, The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross
Paul Willetts
Dewi Lewis, London, 2003
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
A History of Man in the Lake District
1967, from the Neolithic period to the National Park
William Rollinson
J M Dent, London, 1967
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Reader's Handbook to Proust
1952, first edition, An Index Guide to Remembrance of Things Past
P A Spalding, compiler
Chatto & Windus, London, 1952
£20.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Seagull and Sea-Power
1937, a novel in the footsteps of Erskine Childers' Dulcibella and the Frisian Islands
Douglas and Mary Dixon
William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1937
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Autobiography of a Cad
1938, a first printing of A G Macdonell's hilarious spoof memoir of a complete rotter
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Al Khaleej and Beyond: Reflections of Two Artists (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Lawrence & Mike Shepley
Peter Lawrence, and Mike Shepley
Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 2007
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Great Church Towers of England
Chiefly of the Perpendicular Period. 1932, first edition in dustwrapper
Frank J Allen
University Press, Cambridge, 1932
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Hawkshead, Its History, Archaeology, Industries, Folklore, Dialect, etc
1899, a first edition of H S Cowper's history of the Lake District parish
Henry Swainson Cowper
Bemrose & Sons, London, 1899
£120.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Helbeck of Bannisdale
1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance
Mrs Humphrey Ward
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Vagabond's Way, Haphazard Wanderings on the Fells
1914, a first edition of the English actresses tour of the Lake District
Nancy Price, illustrated by A S Hartrick
John Murray, London, 1914
£30.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Five Alan Ross first editions, autobiography, travel & poetry
Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, Winter Sea, Reflections on Blue Water, and After Pusan
Alan Ross
Collins Harvill, London, 1988
£25.00
Collections | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Diana Springall, A Brave Eye (Signed copy)
Signed and dated by Diana Springall
June Hill
A & C Black, London, 2011
£26.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Stones, 18th Century Scottish Gravestones
1978, first edition, a remarkable illustrated record
Betty Willsher, and Doreen Hunter
Canongate, Edinburgh, 1978
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Western Women Travelling East 1716–1916
A comprehensive illustrated study of two hundred years of women's travel and writing from The Arcadian Library
Penelope Tuson
The Arcadian Library & OUP, London, 2014
£80.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In this House of Brede
1969, a hardback first edition of Rumer Godden's sensitive novel
Rumer Godden
Macmillan, London, 1969
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mama (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
1987, a UK proof copy of Terry McMIllan's first novel
Terry McMillan
Jonathan Cape, London, 1987
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
