Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper
Persian Fire (2005, signed first edition)
Signed by Tom Holland
Tom Holland
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Corydon
A good hardback edition of Gide's Socratic dialogues on homosexuality
Andre Gide, translated with a preface by Richard Howard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983
£15.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Nausea, The Wall and other stories
Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel and short fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction by Hayden Carruth, translated by Lloyd Alexander
MJF Books, New York, 1998
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Happy Death (1972, first edition)
The first English language edition of Albert Camus's first novel
Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, afterword and notes by Jean Sarocchi
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1972
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, first BC edition)
Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition
Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Lewis Galatiere, decorated by John O'H Cosgrave, II
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
Night Thoughts (1956, first edition)
David Gascoyne's long poem for radio
David Gascoyne, dustwrapper by Julian Trevelyan
Andre Deutsch, London, 1956
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
de Havilland DH.60 Moth (Signed first edition)
Signed by Stuart McKay to a Moth owner whose plane is in the book
Stuart McKay
Midland, Hinckley, 2005
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Paul Doherty—two signed Medieval crime mystery first editions
The Straw Men (Brother Athelstan), and The Mindnight Man
Paul Doherty
Crème de la Crime, Sutton, 2021
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Fifth Miracle (1998, signed first edition)
Signed by Paul Davies, "The search for the origin of life"
Paul Davies
Allen Lane, London, 1998
£40.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Girls Who Lie (Signed first edition)
Signed by Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, limited to 500 copies
Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb
Orenda Books, London, 2021
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
The Saturday Book 17, signed by Selma van de Perre
This copy owned by Selma van de Perre, WW2 Dutch resistance worker and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
John Hadfield
Hutchinson, London, 1957
£50.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
A Gilbert and Sullivan Dictionary (1936, first edition)
An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
George E Dunn
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
In Defence of the Earth (1959, first edition)
A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance
Kenneth Rexroth
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1947, first edition)
A selection from nine modern Chinese poets
Robert Payne, editor and introduction
Routledge, London, 1947
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Bad Lord Byron (1949, first edition)
"A controversial book about a controversial film", with original flyer for the film
Sydney Box, and Vivian Cox, introduction by Dennis Price
Convoy Publications, London, 1949
£40.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Farmer Giles of Ham (1971)
The eighth impression of Tolkien's comic medieval fable
J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Littlehampton Bequest (Signed limited edition, 1973)
No 66 of 75 copies, signed by Osbert Lancaster and 'the Earl of Littlehampton'
Osbert Lancaster, with a foreword by Roy Strong
John Murray, London, 1973
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Thinking the Unthinkable (1994, signed first edition)
Signed by Richard Cockett, his study of "Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931–1983"
Richard Cockett
HarperCollins, London, 1994
£30.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fencing with the Sabre, Introduction and Technique (1965)
Second edition of Roger Crosnier's instructive book
Roger Crosnier, preface by Roger Tredgold, illustrations by Kaye Gibson
Faber & Faber, London, 1965
£25.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
To Throw Away Unopened (Signed first edition)
Signed and dedciated by Viv Albertine
Viv Albertine
Faber & Faber, London, 2018
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Week-End Book (1928, in the original dustwrapper)
Illustrated with full page colour decorations by Albert Rutherston
Nonesuch Press, illustrated by Albert Rutherston
The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (1958, first edition)
Our Town; The Skin of our Teeth; The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1958
£25.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mr Noselighter (1976, signed first edition)
Signed by Roger McGough
Roger McGough, illustrated by Andre Francois
G Whizzard / Andre Deutsch, London, 1976
£40.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The People of Kau (1976, signed by Leni Riefenstahl)
A signed first printing of Reifenstahl's time with the Nuba of Kau
Leni Riefenstahl, translated by J Maxwell Brownjohn
Collins, London, 1976
£100.00
Photography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
