Browse by Attribute—Dustwrapper

1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy

The Book Club, London, 1980

1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories

Macmillan, New York, 1943

Angela Carter's selection, illustrated by Michael Foreman

Victor Gollancz, London, 1982

1969, the first German edition of Sebastian Haffner's history of Germany after the Great War

Scherz Verlag, Bern, Munchen, Wien, 1969

A study of the Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka

Mittal Publications, Delhi, 1987

A study by political philosopher John Plamenatz

Longmans, London, 1960

A collection of Paul A Samuelson's writings on general equilibrium, finance, trade, Keynesian economics...

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

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

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959

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

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 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

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

Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert

Methuen, London, 1931

A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930

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

1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper

Secker & Warburg, London, 1946

A History of the Myth. The hardback first US edition.

The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991

Signed by Nicola Tyrer. British Army Nurses of the Second World War tell their story

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008

First edition, signed by J M Craster, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the Great War, August to December 1914

Macmillan, London, 1976