First Editions

First Editions

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.

 

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ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY
EDWARD O. WILSON    Book Number: 90449
Published price: $24.95
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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...
LAND: How The Hunger For Ownership Shaped The World
SIMON WINCHESTER    Book Number: 91092
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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...
DRAWN FROM LIFE: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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...
TRAVELS WITH HENRY JAMES
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...
GATSBY'S OXFORD
CHRISTOPHER SNYDER    Book Number: 91351
Published price: $28.95
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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...
GOLDEN HOUSE: A Novel
SALMAN RUSHDIE    Book Number: 91353
Published price: $28.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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...
MARY TOFT OR THE RABBIT QUEEN
DEXTER PALMER    Book Number: 91378
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Hardback

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In 1726 in the town of Godalming, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to 17 rabbits. This astonishing true story is the basis for this powerfully evocative novel. Surgeo...
VESPER FLIGHTS
HELEN MACDONALD    Book Number: 91411
Published price: $27
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback

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By the author of H is for Hawk here is a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to nature. A literary cabinet of curiosities about the wonders and oddities of the natural w...
HOLLAND ON PAPER: In the Age of Art Nouveau
CLIFFORD ACKLEY    Book Number: 91361
Published price: £32
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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In the early 1890s, many progressive Dutch visual artists made a conscious effort to break with the past. This special selection of Dutch works on paper from 1890-1920 comprises many and diverse a...
LOVE LIKE BLOOD
MARK BILLINGHAM    Book Number: 91374
Published price: $26
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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Written by the really, really nice man, the author of the DI Tom Thorne series. This riveting novel marks the return of series character Tom Thorne as he pairs up with the perfectionist Detective ...
QUICHOTTE
SALMAN RUSHDIE    Book Number: 91388
Published price: $28
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR we have the 2019 US first edition of the latest fiction by the author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre w...
LOVE IN THE BLITZ
EILEEN ALEXANDER    Book Number: 91610
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War', Eileen Alexander graduated in 1939 with a brilliant First Class degree in English from Girton College, Cambridge. Her subsequen...
WAVES ACROSS THE SOUTH
SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM    Book Number: 91644
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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The Indian and Pacific oceans constitute a forgotten quarter of this planet, brought here together perhaps for the first time in a sustained work of history by the Cambridge academic. The decades ...
RADICAL WORDSWORTH: The Poet Who Changed the World
JONATHAN BATE    Book Number: 91099
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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William Wordsworth was born among the mountains of the Lake District, walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair and an illegitimate child before witnessing horrific violence in Paris. H...
WASTELAND: A History
VITTORIA DI PALMA    Book Number: 91675
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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Beautifully illustrated, this multi-award winning work conjoins the resources of art history, landscape and garden studies, the history of science and more disciplines still in a scholarly synthesi...
BALLET IN LEICESTER SQUARE
IVOR GUEST    Book Number: 91707
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback

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A rare find, we have the 1992 Dance Books of Cecil Court Covent Garden publication which is sub-titled 'The Alhambra and the Empire 1860-1916.' More than half a century separated the golden age of...
THREE TIGERS, ONE MOUNTAIN
MICHAEL BOOTH    Book Number: 91742
Published price: £20.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan' the book explores the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighbouring countri...
LIVING WITH THE GODS: On Beliefs and Peoples
NEIL MACGREGOR    Book Number: 91678
Published price: $40
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback

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Faith, ideology, religion - these concepts have the power to unite and divide a civilisation. This book is not a history of religion nor an argument regarding faith but rather a collection of stori...
QUESTION OF BETRAYAL: An Elena Standish Novel
ANNE PERRY    Book Number: 91679
Published price: £21.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback

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Britain's Secret Intelligence Service MI6 has lost contact with its informant in Northern Italy, just as important information about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light....
DEAL: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs
BILL KREUTZMANN    Book Number: 92004
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback

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William 'Bill' Kreutzmann Jnr. (born 7th May 1946) is an American drummer who played with the music group the Grateful Dead for its entire 30 year career. The legendary American rock band began in...
DOMINANT CHARACTER
SAMANTHA SUBRAMANIAN    Book Number: 92006
Published price: $40
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane', J. B. S. grew up in Edinburgh into a family of important landowners who led strict, spare lives, obedient to their Calvin...
INNOVATION: The History of England Volume VI
PETER ACKROYD    Book Number: 92303
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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We are thrilled to have this US first edition 2021 which we have imported of the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, from the Boer War to the Millennium...
EARTH SHATTERING EVENTS: Earthquakes, Nations
ANDREW ROBINSON    Book Number: 92417
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback

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The growth of the scientific study of earthquakes is woven into this far-reaching history. The story begins with a series of earthquakes in England in 1750. Today seismologists can monitor the vi...
WORD PARTY
Richard Edwards    Book Number: 92313
Published price: £29.85
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback

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Poems to grab, tickle and tease the imagination about the cook who made a submarine from prunes, leeks and eggs, and one about a cloud who wanted to rain. 'Loving words clutch crimson roses, rude ...
FARMER'S SON: Calving Season on A Family Farm
JOHN CONNELL    Book Number: 92875
Published price: $25
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback

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A number one bestseller in Ireland, the author lives on his family farm Birchview in County Longford, Ireland. He writes about the connection between people and land in a way that goes beyond mere...
GATE TO CHINA: A New History
MICHAEL SHERIDAN    Book Number: 92879
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'A New History of the People's Republic and Hong Kong', the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule is told with unique insight in this new history, drawing on eyew...
STORIES FOR THE YEARS
LUIGI PIRANDELLO    Book Number: 92900
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of Italy's most significant literary figures of the 20th century and translator Virginia Jiwiss opens up many of his rich, humorous, tragic, always engaging and surpri...
HOLLYWOOD ROYALE: Out of the School of Los Angeles
MATTHEW ROLSTON    Book Number: 92915
Published price: £80
Bibliophile price: £28.00
Product format: Hardback

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100 mesmerising photographs of pop stars to movie stars, TV personalities to socialites, Andy Warhol's protégé presents a virtual 'who's who' of 1980s celebrity. The Beverly Hills California Holly...
STARS OF THE CAUCASUS: Silk Embroideries From Azerbaijan
ALBERTO BORALEVI ET AL    Book Number: 92918
Published price: £65
Bibliophile price: £22.50
Product format: Hardback

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Rare 2017 first edition by a selection of world leading experts and scholars, this is the first book on the subject of antique Azerbaijan silk embroideries containing previously unpublished researc...
TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD
J. K. ROWLING    Book Number: 92272
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £14.00
Product format: Hardback

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A magical companion to the Harry Potter stories, illustrated by the famous Chris Riddell in colour and translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger with additional notes by Professor Albu...
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