Browse by Attribute—First Editions

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

Pluto Press, London, 1979

Constantine Tsoucalas's assessment of the Greek political situation (1969)

Penguin Books, London, 1969

An uncommon book dealing with children and their foster families

William Heinemann, London, 1980

1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs

George G. Harrap, London, 1931

This copy signed by Ida Cook, the romantic novelist who helped rescue 29 Jews from Nazi Germany

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984

Tony Cliff's study of the origins of the international socialists

Bookmarks, London, 1999

Architect Cecil Stewart's study of the art and architecture of Serbia

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959

1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower

Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934

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'

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904

1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951

Merlin Press, London, 1968

1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life

Denis Archer, London, 1933

First edition, a history of the drink from its first distillation in Barbados

William Heinemann, London, 1983

Signed by Julia Blackburn. The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man"

Orbis, London, 1979

The second Charlie Mortdecai novel, a first edition book in a Book Club wrapper.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1979

Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition pamphlet from 1974

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1974

2008, the book of a French exhibition of Chagall's Bible illustrations

Henry des Abbayes Art Editions, Fougeres, 2008

including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner

Various, London, n.d.

1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea

E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942

Loosely enclosed are five letters from Martin Gilbert to historian Anne Powell

John Murray, London, 2006

Signed and dedicated by John Pettitt

The Odda Press, Ilkley, 2000

Signed and dedicated by Arianna Stassinopolulos, also with handwritten letter

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980

Signed by Justin Welby with his episcopal signature Justin Cantaur

Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2018

with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties

T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946

1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo

William Heinemann, London, 1939