Browse by Date—1900–1949
Original Architect's Drawing for the Conversion of a Nissen Hut
c1947, with a colour isometric illustration converting the hut into a home
G Reed
Not Published, 1947
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Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Hand-painted
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1902, illustrations by Peter Newell, and page decorations by Robert Murray Wright
Lewis Carroll, with an introduction by E S Martin, illustrated by Peter Newell and page decorations by Robert Murray Wright
Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1902
£30.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First thus
This Smoking World
1928, A history of smoking, and why people smoke etc etc
A E Hamilton, introductory essay by Sir Montague Sherman
Methuen, London, 1928
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Metro-Land 1931 Edition
A guide to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, served by the Metropolitan Railway
Metropolitan Railway
Metropolitan Railway, London, 1931
£25.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover
Fountains in the Sand
1912, first edition of Norman Douglas's travels among the oases of Tunisia
Norman Douglas
Martin Secker, London, 1912
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Barrack Room Ballads
with handwritten poem "Song of the Chaklala Chindits" by R T D Smith (No 3 Parachute Training School, Rawalpindi)
Rudyard Kipling
Methuen, London, 1946
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Original photograph album: West Africa, Sierra Leone, 1905
Gold mining, railways, African army—a pictorial record of an Englishman's life in Africa at the start of the twentieth century
Archibald Hayes Willis
Not Published, 1905
£100.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover
The Cattle King
1936, Ion L Idriess's tribute to Sir Sidney Kidman
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1936
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Odd—But Even So
15 Queer and Quaint stories from P C Wren
P C Wren
John Murray, London, 1942
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Over the Range (Signed copy)
Signed by Ion L Idriess, 'Sunshine and Shadows in the Kimberleys'
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
Biggles Flies South
The first printing of 1938, in the original dustwrapper
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle
Oxford University Press, London, 1938
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Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Garrick Club
1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies
C K Adams, compiler
The Garrick Club, London, 1936
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Nicholas Copernicus 1543–1943
Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand
Stephen P Mizwa
The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Slipcase
G F Watts
from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge
W Loftus Hare
T C & E C Jack, London, 1910
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Burne-Jones
from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge
Alfred Lys Baldry
T C & E C Jack, London, 1909
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Artists of the 1890's
1928, this copy from the library of architect of Roderick Gradidge
John Rothenstein
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1928
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Dare to be Wise (Signed copy)
Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh
Violet Vanbrugh
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
An Elegy in a Country Churchyard
A 1908 pocket edition of Thomas Gray's poem, with An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray, illustrated by J T Friedenson
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1908
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Slum Clearance and Rehousing
1934, The First Report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction
The Earl of Dudley, introduction
Council for Research on Housing Construction, London, 1934
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Text Book of Dialectical Materialism
1939, first edition of David Guest's book published a year after his death in the Spanish Civil War
David Guest
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1939
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Room with a View
1909, a lovely copy of the second impression of E M Forster's third novel
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1909
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Midnight Tales
1946, twenty uncanny tales including The Beast with Five Fingers
William Fryer Harvey
J M Dent, London, 1946
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Vera
A very good 1921 first edition of Elizabeth von Arnim's novel
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Macmillan, London, 1921
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Aspects of Dialectical Materialism
1934, first edition, six essays by J D Bernal, Ralph Fox, R Page Arnot etc
J D Bernal, with H Levy, John MacMurray, Ralph Fox, R Page Arnot, and E F Carritt
Watts & Co, London, 1934
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions