Browse by Date—1900–1949
Edgar Degas Letters
1947, signed by British artist David Heathcote
Marcel Guerin, editor, translated by Marguerite Kay
Bruno Cassirer, London, 1947
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World
1930, first edition, with 22 plates
Henry N Ridley, illustrated by the author and Miss M B Moss
L Reeve & Co, Ashford, 1930
£50.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Windlestraw (Signed copy)
Signed by Pamela Tennant, A Book of Verse with Legends in Rhyme of the Plants and Animals
Pamela Tennant
The Chiswick Press, London, 1905
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Stage Cyclopaedia—A Bibliography of Plays
1909, this copy signed by Montague Berryman, a barrister of 12 King's Bench Walk
Reginald Clarence, compiler
The Stage, London, 1909
£12.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Truth about Reparations and War-Debts
1932, Lloyd George's warning on the overly harsh conditions attached to Germany
David Lloyd George
Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1932
£15.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The House of God (Signed copy)
Signed by Ernest H Short, a history of religious architecture and symbolism
Ernest H Short
Macmillan, New York, 1926
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by E M Forster
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books, London, 1948
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Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
Memoirs of Edward, Earl of Sandwich 1839–1916
1919, first edition of the peers memoirs
Mrs Steuart Erskine
John Murray, London, 1919
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
How the Worcesters Saved the Day, Gheluvelt, 31 October 1914
1915, a rare account from the First Battle of Ypres
Not stated
Worcestershire County Council, Worcester, 1915
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Wild Lone, The Story of a Pytchley Fox
1938, first edition, illustrated by the author
BB, illustrated by D J Watkins-Pitchford
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1938
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Lorna Doone
c1900, two volumes in a delightful red cloth binding
R D Blackmore
The John C Winston Co, Philadelphia, 1900
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Peeps at Politicians
1930, first edition of Ellen Wilkinson's caricatures of colleagues and opposition
Ellen Wilkinson, MP, preface by Oliver Baldwin, MP, and caricatures by Low, Matt, and Horrabin
Philip Allan, London, 1930
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Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
To-morrow for Apricots
c1930, an early Ursula Bloom title in original wrapper
Ursula Bloom
Hutchinson, London, 1930
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Passing of the Third Floor Back and other stories
1909, in a rare early dustwrapper
Jerome K Jerome
Hurst & Blackett, London, 1909
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Selected Poems
1928, first edition of this collection of Ezra Pound's poetry
Ezra Pound, edited with an introduction by T S Eliot
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Freedom
1911, politician and poet Godfrey Locker Lampson's study of freedom
Godfrey Locker Lampson
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
1946 edition of Engel's 1884 classic work
Frederick Engels, in the light of researches of Lewis H Morgan
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1946
£12.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover
All Quiet on the Western Front
First American printing of 1929 in original first state unlipped dustwrapper
Erich Maria Remarque, translated by A W Wheen. Dustwrapper by Paul Wenck.
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1929
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Volume VIII: South Africa, Rhodesia and the Protectorates (1936)
A P Newton, and E A Benions (general editors), Eric A Walker (Advisor in South Africa)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1936
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Volume VII, Canada and Newfoundland (1930)
J Holland Rose, and A P Newton, and E A Benions (general editors), W P M Kennedy (advisor for the Dominion of Canada)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1930
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Volume VII, Part I: Australia, and Part II: New Zealand (1933)
J Holland Rose, and A P Newton, and E A Benions (general editors), Ernest Scott (advisor for the Dominion of Australia), J Hight (advisor for the Dominion of New Zealand)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1933
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Touring in 1600
A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education
E S Bates
Constable, London, 1911
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Winnie the Pooh
1931, 11th impression, and a lovely copy
A A Milne, with decorations by E H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1931
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Childrens | Hard Cover
No Snow in Latching
1949, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pigeon Hoo
A novel of a young couple moving to a farmhouse in Tenterden in the years after the Great War
Franklin Lushington, dustwrapper by R Hartman
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
