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First Editions
UK and US First Editions of famous and collectable authors - many of which may become rare - and a rather good investment.
| 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...
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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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| 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...
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| SALMAN RUSHDIE Book Number: 91353 |
Published price: $28.99
Bibliophile price: £1.75
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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| DEXTER PALMER Book Number: 91378 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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 ...
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| 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...
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| IVOR GUEST Book Number: 91707 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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...
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| MICHAEL BOOTH Book Number: 91742 |
Published price: £20.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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...
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| NEIL MACGREGOR Book Number: 91678 |
Published price: $40
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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...
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| SAMANTHA SUBRAMANIAN Book Number: 92006 |
Published price: $40
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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...
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| PETER ACKROYD Book Number: 92303 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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...
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| ANDREW ROBINSON Book Number: 92417 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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...
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| Richard Edwards Book Number: 92313 |
Published price: £29.85
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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 ...
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| 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...
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| MICHAEL SHERIDAN Book Number: 92879 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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...
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| MATTHEW ROLSTON Book Number: 92915 |
Published price: £80
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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...
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| MARY NORRIS Book Number: 92731 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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A charming book about language, love and the wine-dark sea by the author who has delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The Ne...
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| Francine Prose Book Number: 93002 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
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A bright Coney Island Jew tries to rise in the gin-soaked world of WASP publishing, where his job is to mash the tragedy of the Rosenberg executions into pulp. This cunning and engrossing book is ...
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| BARBARA EHRLICH WHITE Book Number: 93126 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback
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A big glamorous heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication with 105 illustrations by the Tufts University professor and friend of Renoir's great granddaughter Sophie. The joy that permeates August Re...
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| MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ALLAN, Book Number: 93217 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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The Crimean War of 1854-56 was the first of the 'modern' wars. The opening round at the Alma was a direct throwback to the Napoleonic campaigns of 50 years earlier, whereas the Siege of Sevastopol...
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| JONI MITCHELL Book Number: 92354 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £16.50
Product format: Hardback
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The Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell produced her ground-breaking album Blue in 1971. It emerged as a singular commercial and critical success around the world and at the time the artist herself ...
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| STEPHEN WALTER Book Number: 88946 |
Published price: $29.95
Bibliophile price: £6.25
Product format: Paperback
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Like a huge jigsaw with pieces the size of the book (27.5 x 20cm) 34 pull out posters can be removed and perhaps even linked if you're clever! Or framed and admired for their astonishing detail and...
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| ROY THOMAS & PETER SANDERSON Book Number: 93402 |
Published price: £29.99
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Paperback
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Complete with items of facsimile memorabilia tucked into an album sized 12" square sleeve on the inside front cover including three trading cards, the Fantastic Four Synopsis from 1961 typewritten,...
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| JOSEPH LANZA Book Number: 93409 |
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (1927-2011) made some of the most daring, disturbing, establishment-baiting and beautifully-shot films of all time. His films have been drawn from a wide range of...
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| INTRO. BY JANE JAKEMAN Book Number: 93412 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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Make a Millet Seed Puding, a Jelly of Rasberyes, Gingerbread, Pickled Kidney Beans, Presarve Damsons for Sweetmeats or tarts, make a good Beef Gravey or Minct Pyes with raisins stoned and chopped s...
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| STEFAN BUCZACKI Book Number: 93456 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Hardback
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Professor Stefan Buczacki is one of the world's most renowned botanists having written around 60 books including several standard works of reference. He spent 12 unbroken years as panellist and ch...
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