Browse by Attribute—First Editions

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

Printed for the Author(s), 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

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

Indian folk tales. 1883, Les Trente-deux Recits du Trone (Batris-Sinhasan / Singhasan Battisi)

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883

First US edition, signed by the author, Edward B Shils

Holt, Reinhart & Winston, New York, 1963

The 1892 first US edition, published by Bradley & Woodruff.

Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1892

1944, an Italian political discussion on Christian Democracy and Marxism

Il Segno, Rome, 1944

Edited by Willie Thompson et al, containing a wide range of articles

Pluto Press, London, 1993

1932, first edition, Gertrude Leigh's Study in the Heterodoxy of Dante

Faber & Faber, London, 1932

Signed by author and cataloguer, Roger Cardinal to sculptor David Heathcote

Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 2000

First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess

Carcanet, Manchester, 1992

Classic British pulp fiction from Hank Janson, 1958.

Alexander Moring, London, 1958

The career and writings of Russian actress and theatre producer Galina Volchek

Not stated, Moscow, 2013

The book of the exhibition which explores the artist's relationship to Europe and the Mediterranean

Whitechapel Art Gallery / Prestel, London, 2015

British Poets in Egypt during the Second World War

St Martin's Press, New York, 1997

1982, a first German edition of this important title on forensic science of handwriting

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1982

A Bulgarian edition of the statesman's diaries, in two volumes

University Publishing House, Sofia, 1996