Books
Browse our collection of rare books, first editions, signed editions and valuable printed books, written by the world's greatest authors, in a wide range of subjects.
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BALLEN, Roger. Ballenesque. Roger Ballen: A Retrospective.London : 2017
First edition, limited collector's edition, number 70/100, with limited edition photographic print, Candlelight, signed, numbered, dated 2014 and titled in pencil by the artist on verso, with artist's blind-stamp. This is the comprehensive retrospective of Ballen's work. Learn More -
REGO, Paula, & John McEwen. Paula Rego.London : 1992
First edition, with a signed Paula Rego bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. This is the first comprehensive monograph on Rego's work, including a wealth of illustrations and a traditional Portugese folk tale retold by and illustrated by Rego. Learn More -
LEIBOVITZ, Annie. Portraits: 2005-2016.London & New York : 2022
First edition, signed by Leibovitz on the half-title page. The book follows on from her critically acclaimed compilations Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005.
There are over 150 subjects in Portraits 2005-2016, including Venus and Serena Williams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, LeBron James, Sheryl... Learn More -
BILLINGHAM, Richard. Ray's a Laugh.Zurich : 1996
First edition. This is Billingham's most iconic work, "a British family-album so cool that I can see and hear what goes on between the frames" (Robert Frank). Learn More -
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight's Children.London : 1981
First edition, UK issue. Rushdie's breakthrough novel won the James Tait Black Memorial and Booker prizes in the year of publication. It was also twice named as the best-ever recipient of the Booker Prize (est. 1969), winning the 1993 Booker of Bookers and the 2008 Best of the Booker.
The UK issue is taken from the American sheets, which... Learn More -
WARHOL, Andy - WÜNSCHE, Hermann. Das Graphische Werk 1962-1980.Bonn : [1981]
First edition, signed by Andy Warhol on the front cover. Wünsche worked closely with Warhol on the project, and the printed inscription by Warhol on the first blank is testament to this: "It was fun to work with Hermann for almost two years on this catalogue raisonné. Sometimes it was no fun because he insisted on perfection... the result is... Learn More -
WESTON, Edward; Merle Armitage; Robinson Jeffers; Donald Bear. 50 Photographs.New York : 1947
First and limited edition, labelled a personal copy from 1,500 copies initialled by Edward Weston. The fifty photographs reproduced in the book were chosen by Weston himself, and had never before been published in book form. Learn More -
CORVINUS PRESS: WAGNER, Richard. The Flying Dutchman.London : 1938
First edition, limited issue, out of series from an issue of 130 copies only. This is the first publication of this translation of Wagner's libretto for his opera Die fliegende Holländer (1843). It was likely translated by the owner of the Corvinus Press, Viscount Carlow, who was a German speaker. The English text is printed on the rectos and the... Learn More -
TOLKIEN, J. R. R., & E. V. Gordon (eds). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Oxford : 1925
First edition of Tolkien's second published book, a scholarly edition of one of the most important works of medieval English literature. The poem was an important influence on Tolkien: he produced his own verse translation (published posthumously in 1975) and he described the original as "one of the masterpieces of fourteenth-century art in... Learn More -
WARNER, Richard. A Companion in a Tour Round Lymington:Southampton : 1789
First edition of the author's second work, in the attractive original boards. Warner (1763-1857) moved to Lymington as a child and spent his life in the church, producing many works of history and travel. Hampshire is well known as the birthplace of Jane Austen, whose father owned a copy of Warner's Excursions from Bath.
Warner's guide was... Learn More -
HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest.London : 1953
First edition, signed on the title page by five of Hunt's companions on the 1953 Everest expedition, George Lowe, Michael Ward, George Band, Michael Westmacott, and Charles Wylie. It is also signed by Nwang Gombu, the first person to summit Everest twice. Learn More -
LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.Philadelphia : 1960
First edition of the author's debut novel, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This is the first issue jacket, with Truman Capote's review in green on the front flap and Jonathan Daniels's review and no mention of subsequent printings on the flap. Learn More -
NAPOLEON - HAZLITT, William, & others. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte;London : [c.1900]
Edition des Amateurs, copy L of 26 sets. This typically lavish Gilded Age production offers a varied selection of Napoleonic biography: the history of Hazlitt, a committed English Napoleonist, with the personal memoirs of Bourrienne, the Emperor's secretary, and of Junot. The latter's memoirs, noted for their "caustic wit and extravagance" are... Learn More -
HOOKE, Nathaniel. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth.London : 1738-71
First editions of Hooke's "radical and subversive interpretation of Roman history as class conflict" (Marsden, p. 52). Originally intended as a revised translation of previous French scholarship, in the event he presented an original argument that the demise of the Republic was the fault of the aristocracy.
Hooke died immediately before the... Learn More -
SIMPSON, Andrew R. B. Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia.Chichester : 2008
First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Learn More -
TABACHNICK, Stephen E, & Christopher Matheson. Images of Lawrence.London : 1988
First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Thank you for a very good day. Christopher Matheson 12.I.94". Published in the year of T. E. Lawrence's centenary, this work contains an examination of the myth of T. E. Lawrence, accompanied by many previously unpublished photographs from Matheson's collection. Learn More -
WORSLEY, Frank Arthur. Under Sail in the Frozen North.London : 1927
First edition of Worsley's account of his 1925 expedition to search for Gillis Land. During the expedition, the engine broke, and the ship reached a farthest north of 81°15′N using only sailing power.
Loosely inserted are programs for a 1928 film version of South, with commentary by Worsley, who was a captain on the expedition. Learn More -
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.London : 1907
An attractively bound set of Shakespeare's complete works, including a chronology of his plays and a glossary. This set is a second edition, published a year after the first. Learn More -
FLIGHT, Claude. The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing.London : 1934
First edition. Claude Flight (1881-1955) was a devoted champion of the colour linocut, which, as he put it, "has no tradition or technique behind it, so that the student can go forward without thinking of what Bewick or Rembrandt did before" (p. 63). The exhibition he organized at the Redfern Gallery in London in 1929 was "the first exhibition... Learn More -
LAWRENCE, T. E. - WEEKS, Donald. T. E. Lawrence.Edinburgh : 1983
First edition, one of 230 copies of this bibliographical study of Lawrence's work on Scott's Guard by Wilfrid Ewart (1934). This copy has the initials of George Newton, the T. E. Lawrence collector, to the front free endpaper. Learn More
