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First Editions
First Editions
UK and US First Editions of famous and collectable authors - many of which may become rare - and a rather good investment.
| EDITED BY JOHN LANTOS Book Number: 85116 |
Published price: £28
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses', the book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the ...
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| DR. CHESTER W. TOPP Book Number: 85791 |
Published price: $150
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Hardback
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Published by Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, Denver Colorado 1993 first editions. 7.5" x 10.8" each of seven remaining final copies of these rare volumes for collectors of Victorian literature. V...
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| LT. COL. EDWARD BARRETT MBE Book Number: 88419 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback
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The ceremonial sword is a sign of status and will often be made of precious or rare metals, with a scabbard designed to display intricate craftsmanship and expensive materials. The author has visi...
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| BILL WOODROW Book Number: 88804 |
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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B is for Mutant? D is for Nostril? Z is for Secret? Bill Woodrow's unique alphabet offers a glimpse into a playful and endlessly inventive artistic mind. Part sketchbook, part riddle, this Royal...
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| RICHARD CORK Book Number: 88805 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback
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A beautiful glamorous Royal Academy of Arts 2016 first edition publication. Ann Christopher is primarily a non-figurative sculptor who works in cast bronze, stainless steel and Corten and who crea...
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| OLIVER CLUTTON-BROCK Book Number: 88975 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners From Stalag Luft VII (Bankau) to Berlin, June 1944 to May 1945.' The book is firstly a testament to those many nationalities who found thems...
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| DESMOND MORRIS Book Number: 89122 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £8.75
Product format: Hardback
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Surrealism was a new philosophy of psychic automatism exempted from any aesthetic or moral concern. The Surrealist movement began in Paris in the 1920s and was not in origin and art movement, but ...
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| MATTHEW LOCKWOOD Book Number: 88942 |
Published price: £60
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in
England through the office of the coroner. Lockwood explores the history of crime, murder and suicide in England over four centuries. Whi...
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| KURT FLASCH Book Number: 88947 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £11.00
Product format: Hardback
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One of the most senior scholars and best-known writers on late German Medieval thought in Europe, renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister ...
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| PETER BARTON Book Number: 89070 |
Published price: £60
Bibliophile price: £20.00
Product format: Hardback
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This major contribution to the study of World War I is based on a series of 50 panoramic photographs of the whole sweep of different battlefields, some of them taken by Germans and never published ...
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| JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS Book Number: 89651 |
Published price: $26.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
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A visually rich book which unravels an historical mystery, this is an exceptional insight into the gestation of Leonardo da Vinci as the leading artist of the High Renaissance. The authors bring a...
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| HERMAN MELVILLE Book Number: 89694 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £13.00
Product format: Hardback
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Quite superb paper engineering by Gérard Lo Monaco and lino cut illustrations literally lift forward in 3D on every righthand page of Melville's abridged classic Moby-Dick or The Whale. The story ...
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| ADRIAN BESLEY Book Number: 89695 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £16.00
Product format: Hardback
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Slipcased first edition containing envelopes packed with hidden treasures, 16 items in facsimile documents of original sketches together with all crossings out and amendments in handwriting reprodu...
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| SAMANTHA SWANK Book Number: 89875 |
Published price: £7.99
Bibliophile price: £2.25
Product format: Hardback
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Learn all about your favourite characters from Hogwarts heroes like Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley to infamous wizards like Lord Voldemort and Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore. Who has a magica...
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| DYLAN JONES Book Number: 89774 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback
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Musicians, groupies, music producers like Tony Visconti, Mick Rock, Angie Bowie, photographer Brian Duffy, the mime artist Lindsay Kemp, musician Nile Rodgers, journalists, actresses and models, To...
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| LIO YEUNG Book Number: 90042 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Hardback
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Bold colourful artwork on every page by the award-winning art director and designer, learn the meanings of around 100 names from Aaliyah, the feminine version of Ali meaning 'sublime' in the Arabic...
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| GEORGIUS EVERHARDUS RUMPHIUS Book Number: 90179 |
Published price: £350
Bibliophile price: £125.00
Product format: Hardback
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Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesia Botanical Exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the 17th century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a western language and within...
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| JAMES OWEN Book Number: 90588 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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Before 1914 there was no Letters Page as such in The Times. The newspaper had since its founding in 1785 published correspondence to it, and the decision to start grouping letters into a single pa...
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| PAUL GAUGUIN & EMIL GAUGUIN Book Number: 90656 |
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Hardback
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Privately printed for subscribers only in 1921 in New York, this facsimile is numbered 972. Paul Gauguin is one of the giants of French post-Impressionism and a pioneer of early Modernism. A rebe...
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| HILLIARD GOLDFARB Book Number: 88502 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
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A big, rare exhibition catalogue published by Yale University Press with Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006 first edition softback. The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-190...
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| EDWARD O. WILSON Book Number: 90449 |
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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By pushing further into the realm of science, especially fields such as evolutionary biology, neuro-science and anthropology, Pulitzer prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson calls for a transformati...
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| SIMON WINCHESTER Book Number: 91092 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback
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A sweeping global history of how our land has been mapped, owned, divided, stolen, cared for, fought over, preserved and restored. Mass appropriation of land as perpetrated by European colonists i...
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| JOHN BENNETT Book Number: 88948 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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Britain's industrial boom drew thousands to the East End and crime flourished in its overcrowded squalor. Long before Jack the Ripper prowled its alleys and the Kray twins terrorised its inhabitan...
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| RICHARD GREEN AND DES JONES Book Number: 91253 |
Published price: £55
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback
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Rare 1995 first edition, this exciting volume presents both a fascinating insight into the life of Clarice Cliff, the innovative designer of her time, and is the most detailed reference of her desi...
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| INTRODUCED BY TIM PARKS Book Number: 91160 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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A new selection of Montaigne's most resonant essays translated by Michael Screech, Michel de Montaigne is one of the founding fathers of the essay. Retreating to his chateau to write and often neg...
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| HENRY JAMES Book Number: 91178 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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The author of such classic novels as The Portrait of A Lady, The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, Henry James (1843-1916) here takes readers from the American towns of upstate New York to villag...
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| JONATHAN MOSSE Book Number: 91509 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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Illustrated with mapping, archive and over 300 contemporary colour photographs, we can glide along the canals and rivers of Britain and evoke a bygone era when life moved at a more leisurely pace. ...
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| CHRISTOPHER SNYDER Book Number: 91351 |
Published price: $28.95
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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Sub-titled 'Scott, Zelda, and The Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929' this extraordinary history shows how the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby, war hero and Oxford man at...
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| SALMAN RUSHDIE Book Number: 91353 |
Published price: $28.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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In a time of polarising extremes, can we find common ground? Will despots and their supporters be forever with us? Can story and art enlighten us? In this stylish novel, the literary genius Salm...
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| JO NESBO Book Number: 91375 |
Published price: $27
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with the initials JN in this glamorous US first edition hardback with a golden sticker saying Signed Copy, here is a new thriller from the author of The Snowman. Set in the 19...
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