Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper
My Dancing White Horses (1965)
Second printing of the autobiography of Alois Podhajsky of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna
Alois Podhajsky, translated by Frances Hogarth-Gaute
George G. Harrap, London, 1965
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Wiltshire Childhood (1929, first edition)
A reading copy of Ida Gandy's memoir
Ida Gandy, illustrated by Marjorie Whittington
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1929
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
East End Jewish Radicals 1875–1914
Owned by Marian Ferguson, who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939
William J Fishman
Duckworth & Co, London, 1975
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Your Garden Again (1953, first edition) **RESERVED**
Vita Sackville-West's gardening articles from 1951 to 1953
Vita Sackville-West
Michael Joseph, London, 1953
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Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vorkuta (1954, first edition)
Joseph Scholmer's "Story of a Slave City in the Soviet Arctic"
Joseph Scholmer, translated from the German by Robert Kee
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Philadelphia Experiment, Project Invisibility (1979)
Charles Berlitz's study of how the US Navy made USS Eldridge (DE-173) disappear...
Charles Berlitz, and William Moore
Souvenir Press, London, 1979
£15.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Versed in Living Nature, Wordsworth's Trees (first edition)
2022, a study of William Wordsworth's profound identification of the spirit of nature in trees
Peter Dale, and Brandon C Yen
Reaktion Books, London, 2022
£18.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Hans Bellmer (2006, first edition)
A comprehensive monograph of the German artist
Michael Semff, and Anthony Spira (editors), with essays by Agnes de la Beaumelle, Alain Sayag, and Wieland Schmeid
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2006
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Fourth Body (2004, first edition)
Roy Stuart's collection of erotic photography
Roy Stuart
Taschen, Koln, 2004
£40.00
Photography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
International Lonely Guy (2007, first edition)
Harland Miller's iconoclastic artwork
Harland Miller, contributions by Ed Ruscha, Sophie Fiennes, Gordon Burn and Jarvis Cocker
Rizzoli, New York, 2007
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition (2004, first edition)
An illustrated study of Mapplethorpe's prints besides Mannerist prints
Germano Celant, and Arkady Ippolitov, with Karole Vail
Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 2004
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
2019, a first edition of Jonathan Phillips' biography
Jonathan Phillips
The Bodley Head, London, 2019
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Wodehouse Nuggets (Signed copy)
1993, gems from P G Wodehouse, signed by Richard Usborne
P G Wodehouse, selected by Richard Usborne
James H Heinemann, New York, 1993
£25.00
Humour | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
Design and Detail on the Home (Signed first edition)
Signed by David Linley
David Linley. Janet Gleeson (contributing editor), Jan Baldwin (photographer)
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2000
£25.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Silmarillion
1977, the Book Club edition but a pretty good copy
J R R Tolkien
Book Club Associates, London, 1977
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Confessions (complete in two volumes)
Augustine's spiritual autobiography, published in the Loeb Classical Library
Augustine, translated by Carolyn J-B Hammond
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2014
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Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The English Roses (2011, signed second edition)
Signed by David Austin, his definitive work on the English Roses
David Austin, photographs by Howard Rice, Andrew Lawson, and Ron Daker
Conrad Octopus, London, 2011
£50.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Biggles Book of Heroes (1959, first edition)
W E John's stories of real life heroism...
Captain W E Johns
Max Parrish, London, 1959
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In the Pink, Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator
A profusely illustrated study of the American designer
Carleton Varney
Pointed Leaf Press, New York, 2006
£40.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Landscape in Watercolour, A Personal View (Signed copy)
David Curtis's instructional book on plein air painting
David Curtis
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1996
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
James Lees-Milne, five hardback volumes of diaries
Four first printings: Ancestral Voices (US edition), A Mingled Measure, Ancient as the Hills, and Deep Romantic Chasm; and one fourth printing: Beneath a Waning Moon
James Lees-Milne
John Murray, London & New York, n.d.
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Three Terry Pratchett Discorld Gift Editions (2017)
All are the first printing: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, and Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett, wrappers and endpaper maps by Paul Kidby
Doubleday, London, 2017
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Berlioz and his Century (Signed by pianist Alexander Kelly)
1956, the first condensed edition of Barzun's important study
Jacques Barzun
Meridian Books, Lonfon & New York, 1956
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy | First thus
Soldiers (Multi-signed first edition)
Signed by Philip Ziegler and four Chelsea Pensioners featured in the book
Philip Ziegler
Chatto & Windus, London, 2001
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Naked Hermit (Signed first edition)
Signed by Nick Mayhew-Smith, "A journey to the heart of Celtic Britain"
Nick Mayhew-Smith
SPCK, London, 2019
£25.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
