Blackwell's Rare Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Women's Suffrage
Millicent Garrett FawcettBlackwell's Rare Books1/2 For #ManuscriptMonday, a number of letters from the British suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett - plus a 1918 postcard from her nephew, congratulating her on the victory of Women's Suffrage a few days after the Representation of the People Act https://t.co/y1obPD3Nhj https://t.co/BFzLo8fd9o
Paperback, 2020
$34.90$17.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hannibal
Thomas HarrisBlackwell's Rare BooksCurrently in stock: the complete first English editions of Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels, which has naturally prompted a discussion on what priceless artefact we would like to eat a la Francis Dolarhyde gobbling up a Blake watercolour https://t.co/NnMo0OwQnJ https://t.co/8BYLLApf5u
Paperback, Mass Market, 2001
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War
Alexis SoyerBlackwell's Rare BooksImpeccable autumn soup vibes: the first edition of Soyer's Culinary Campaign, 1857, Alexis Benoit Soyer's memoir of his work in the Crimean War, work which, as this engraved title illustrates, involved cooking vast quantities of food in the Soyer Stove https://t.co/v58Gl0YrfA https://t.co/Suj1VjDbIW
Paperback, 2016
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trilby
George Du MaurierBlackwell's Rare BooksBridging the gap: 1st American edition of George du Maurier's Trilby, the author the grandfather of Daphne and grandson of Mary Anne. Trilby was a hit, but it was a hat in the stage adaptation that really stole the show, becoming known as the Tribly hat https://t.co/M5fi3VYT7i https://t.co/tPEKk0cBCb
Paperback, 2024
$26.75$13.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rebecca
Daphne du MaurierBlackwell's Rare BooksWhat better day than Daphne du Maurier's 116th birthday to buy a first edition of Rebecca, with the Rex Whistler-designed Book Society bookplate, issued with the book and signed by the author? https://t.co/1E28IEzoz5 https://t.co/EgZysNgJ9h
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Monasticon Anglicanum: The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales.
William DugdaleBlackwell's Rare BooksThe fair is closing for the day soon, but don't forget @firstslondon is free tomorrow too, 11am-5pm. I'll leave you with this gorgeous engraving of the interior of Lincoln Cathedral, from William Dugdale's 1655-73 magnum opus, Monasticon Anglicanum https://t.co/AmfO1owCeB https://t.co/udBo56FUiM
Paperback, 2019
$38.50$19.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Daughter of Time
Josephine TeyBlackwell's Rare BooksHere is the same artist illustrating the dustjacket for Josephine Tey's 'The Daughter of Time'. We might search for more of their work, if we could be definite on any of their initials! https://t.co/uyUNwed21k
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Edgar Allan PoeBlackwell's Rare BooksCurrent favourite thing in stock: this gorgeous 1930 edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, unsettlingly illustrated by the incredible Alexandre Alexeieff, most famous for inventing pinscreen animation with his wife Claire Parker https://t.co/fYAityttmN https://t.co/YUhiYNtmJI
Paperback, Mass Market, 2006
$5.95$2.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everybody's Autobiography
Gertrude SteinBlackwell's Rare BooksOur newest Modernisms catalogue is out, and within it is this photo of Gertrude Stein, reclining, relaxing, living her best life, with her dogs Basket and Pépé - from the first English edition of Everybody's Autobiography, 1938 https://t.co/0arEttAfJX https://t.co/vIx5EbDYFl
Paperback, 2004
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wuthering Heights
Emily BronteBlackwell's Rare BooksA freshly plugged gap: the Structure of Wuthering Heights, from the Hogarth Essays series, filling a space left by a lovely private press printing of the poems of Emily Bronte. What better to pop under a shelf of Woolf and next to Du Maurier's Rebecca? https://t.co/lYhPOeCVeG
Paperback, 2017
$14.56$7.28 + Free shipping50% off your first book