First edition books don’t need to be expensive. We stock rare books from £25-£100,000.
A rare book makes the perfect wedding, christening, birthday or Christmas present for a loved one. It could be their favourite story, or a favourite film in book form. It can even be a book from the year of the birth.
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John Hassall – A NAVAL ALPHABET – First Edition 1901
£95.00London Sands. Undated but c.1901. Folio, in colour pictorial paper-covered boards, with cloth spine; 26 colour plates, each with an illustrated text page. Ink gift inscription second endpaper. Light foxing…
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Julia Donaldson [Axel Scheffler] – The Gruffalo – SIGNED 25th Anniversary Edition
£95.00A fifteenth printing of the 2016 edition (softcover) – SIGNED by Donaldson to the title page. In fine condition – brought out to coincide with the 25th Anniversary.
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Dr. Seuss – Horton Hears a Who! – First UK Edition 1976
£85.00A first UK edition, first printing published by Collins in 1976. A near fine, if not better, book marred only by slight bumping to the spine tips and corners. Clean…
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Cormac McCarthy – The Crossing – First US Edition 1994
£85.00A first edition, first printing of The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, published by Knopf, New York in 1994. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, three-quarter boards bound in…
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Vernon Scannell – Soldiering On – SIGNED First Edition 1989 – with accompanying letters
£85.00A first edition, first printing of Soldiering On: Poems of Military Life by Vernon Scannell, published by Robson Books, London in 1989. A near fine copy signed by the author…
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Jane Austen – Love and Friendship and Other Early Works – First Edition 1921
£85.00A first edition, first printing of Love and Friendship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen, published by Chatto & Windus, London in 1921, with preface by GK Chesterton. A…
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Alexander Kent – Enemy In Sight! – SIGNED First Edition 1970
£75.00A first edition, first printing of Enemy in Sight! by Alexander Kent, published by Hutchinson, London in 1970. A near fine book inscribed and SIGNED by the author in black…
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John Collier – Gemini – First Edition 1931
£75.00A first edition, first printing of Gemini by John Collier, published by Desmond Harmsworth, London in 1931. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in original publishers…
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Harry Harrison – One Step From Earth – SIGNED First US Edition 1970
£60.00A first US edition, first printing of One Step From Earth by Harry Harrison, published by The Macmillan Company, New York in 1970. A near fine copy signed by the…
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Saul Bellow – Henderson The Rain King – First Edition 1959
£60.00A first edition, first printing of Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London in 1959. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, some…
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D. Brian Plummer – Hunters All – SIGNED First Edition 1986
£60.00A first edition, first printing of hunters All by D. Brian Plummer, published by Huddlesford Publications, Gravesend in 1986. A near fine copy SIGNED and inscribed in blue ink by…
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James Melville – The Wages of Zen – SIGNED First Edition 1979
£50.00A first edition, first printing of The Wages of Zen by James Melville, published by Secker & Warburg, London in 1979. A near fine copy signed by the author in…
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Edna O’Brien – The Love Object – First Edition 1968
£50.00A first edition, first printing of The Love Object by Edna O’Brien, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1968. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in…
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Alasdair Gray – Something Leather – First Edition 1990
£45.00A first edition, first printing of Something Leather by Alasdair Gray, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1990. A fine copy free from internal inscriptions, the boards bound in publisher’s…
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Vernon Scannell – Funeral Games and Other Poems – SIGNED First Edition 1987
£45.00A first edition, first printing of Funeral Games and Other Poems by Vernon Scannell, published by Robson Books, London in 1987. A near fine copy SIGNED and inscribed by the…
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Alfred Wainwright – A Ribble Sketchbook – First Edition 1980
£45.00A first edition, first printing published by Westmoreland Gazette in 1980. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper.
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