Modern first editions - R-Z

An inscribed copy of one of the key collections of poetry to be published in the second half of the twentieth century. Released in a version that was controversially edited by Ted Hughes some three ye...

[6] pp 7-256 Steve Roper's memoir of the golden age of rock climbing in Yosemite with an interesting handwritten letter from one of the participants, Royal Robbins, laid in. The book is Fine in a Fine...

[8] pp 1-88 [54 plates] An inscribed copy of Roger Fry\'s study of the father of modern art, Cezanne. The book was given as a prize by the artist and Slade School Professor, Sir William Coldstream, to...

pp 1-200 A Signed First Edition of Raymond Mortimer's essay collection with a typed letter and handwritten postcard both signed by the author. Mortimer who was a member of the Bloomsbury group has sig...

xvi, pp 1-96, 51 Plates and explanations. Bodkin's account of the scandal over Sir Hugh Lane's pictures in an edition commissioned and signed by the Irish Taioseach, John A Costello from 1956. A print...

[4] Empson's first publication, issued as the inaugural imprint by the Cambridge bookseller and publisher Heffer and Sons in their poetic Songs for Sixpence. Bound in the original paper wrappers with ...

[6] pp 7-200 [foldout map at rear] A first edition of Leith Ross's catalogue of Nigerian Pottery published by the Ibadan University Press in Lagos. The book is in its original binding with photographs...

[12], pp 1-129 [3] A very smart First Edition of Raymond Williams' oddly scarce Preface to Film. Bound in the original tan coloured cloth, both the text and boards are near Fine with a little dustines...

[8] [2] pp 3-286 [2] The signed Limited First UK Edition of Tom McCarthy's acclaimed debut novel. This edition was preceded only by a very scarce edition published in 2005 by the Metronome Press in P...

[8] pp 9-285 [3] A Signed First Edition of 'Song of Doom' which has been inscribed in the year of publication to the famous Californian book collector, Albert M Bender. Virgil Markham's inscription ap...

[6] pp 7-103 The first edition of Ronald Knox\'s Lenten Lecture series with an authorial inscription on the front free endpaper. Knox has idiosyncratically noted: \'written in by the author Nov 1 1953...

[6] pp 7-319 [1] An early Dustjacketed edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. This imprint which is the first reprint of the Uniform Edition is near Fine with the original green boards and bright g...

pp 1-192; viii, pp 1-184 Two photographic books given by Stanley Kubrick's sister Barbara to her film-maker brother as a reminder of their shared childhood in the Bronx. The books are accompanied by ...