Browse by Attribute—First Editions
Serbian Legacy
Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia
Cecil Stewart
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower
Ernest Dowson, edited with an introduction by Desmond Flower
Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Work and Wages (Signed copies)
Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'
Sydney J Chapman, with an introduction by Lord Brassey
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate
Truth will Prevail
1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951
Marian Slingova
Merlin Press, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Waste of Rice, Spondee Discovers Marriage
1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life
Spondee, pseud. Caryl Brahms, frontispiece by J P Sayer
Denis Archer, London, 1933
£30.00
Humour | Hard Cover | First Editions
Rum, Yesterday and Today
First edition, a history of the drink from its first distillation in Barbados
Hugh Barty-King, and Anton Massel, foreword by Hammond Innes
William Heinemann, London, 1983
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The White Men (Signed copy)
Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"
Julia Blackburn, foreword by Dr Edmund Carpenter
Orbis, London, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
After You with the Pistol
The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Secker & Warburg, London, 1979
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Ray Atkins, Recent realist paintings
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Ray Atkins
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
David Hepher, paintings, reliefs and collages, of interiors and exteriors
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
David Hepher, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£15.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Henri Chopin, Graphic, objective and other poems
Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974
Henri Chopin
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Marc Chagall, en Terre Promise
2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations
Francois Chapon
Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008
£20.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
War Injuries of the Chest
1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea
H Morriston Davies, and Robert Coope (editors)
E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942
£10.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War (with signed letters)
Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell
Martin Gilbert
John Murray, London, 2006
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Maria Callas, A Record Obsession (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt
John Pettitt
The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000
£20.00
Maria Callas | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated
Maria, Beyond the Callas Legend (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
£20.00
Maria Callas | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reimagining Britain, Foundations for Hope (Signed copy)
Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur
Justin Welby
Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Roll of Honour, Arbroath and District 1939–1945
with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties
Marion Angus, foreword
T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£22.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Art of the Maker
Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"
Peter Dormer
Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
£35.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maxims of War
1905, taken from the writings of Wellington, Napoleon, Clausewitz etc
Maurice V Brett
Hugh Rees Ltd, London, 1905
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Summer's Fancy
1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press
Edmund Blunden, decorations by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
