Browse by Attribute—First Editions

c1950, first edition, a paperback pocket book of cocktails from 21 Brands

21 Brands Inc, New York, 1950

First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson

Secker & Warburg, London, 1984

Harold Coulander's collection of African folk tales (1963)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963

1898, first edition of S O Addy's illustrated history of domestic architecture

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898

Signed by Christopher Saunders, one of Cecil Woolf's War Poets series

Cecil Woolf, London, 2006

1912, hardback, a first edition on dancing, ballet, dancers, morris dancing...

Grant Richards, London, 1912

Hardback, first edition. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003

A Great War French WW1 regimental history including Roll of Honour

Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919

A 1919 Great War French regimental history with Roll of Honour

Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919

1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel

Martin Secker, London, 1928

Signed by Maisie Duncan, her account of surviving the Japanese Occupation of Malaya

Printed for the Author, Helensvale, Queensland, 2002

First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972

First edition, seven charming stories by Robert Tredinnick, aka Uncle Robert

Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1944

1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1989

1917, first UK edition, containing four of Lord Dunsany's plays

T Fisher Unwin, London, 1917

The artists's "The Gates" installation in New York's Central Park

Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2008

First edition, signed and dedicated by Hugo Vickers

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020

1921, the Hams, the Hithes, the Stones and the Tons...

South Eastern Gazette, Maidstone, 1921

1992, first edition. The politics and society of Russia, post-USSR

St Martin's Press, New York, 1992

1954, first edition, an adventure for W E John's Group-Captain Timothy 'Tiger' Clinton

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954

1963, first edition, another adventure for W E John's spaceship Tavona.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963

Signed and dedicated by George Hayim

Quartet Books, London, 1988

A rather kitsch 1981 pop-up up

Brown Watson, Barcelona, 1981

A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather

Chapman & Hall, London, 1920

1937, first edition, with Agnes Miller Parker's glorious wood engravings

Victor Gollancz, London, 1937