Browse by Attribute—First Editions

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

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

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

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

William Heinemann, London, 1939

Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973

Peter Dormer's essay, "Skill and its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design"

Thames and Hudson, London, 1994

1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens

Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931

1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press

The Beaumont Press, London, 1930

1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry

Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937

Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943

A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930

Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book

James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940

1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland

Heath Cranton, London, 1939

Signed by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt to Bomber Command veteran Les King, DFM

Viking, London, 1985

including an article on Lithobolio, a New England Poltergeist of 1692

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1937

1916, first edition, fifteen tales from R B Cunninghame Graham

Duckworth & Co, London, 1916