Browse by Date—1900–1949
Billiards
1915, illustrated with 84 photographs
Tom Reece, and W G Clifford
A & C Black, London, 1915
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Hampden Club Magazine
The first 12 issues (1924/1925) for London's The Hampden Residential Club
Norman W Rae, editor
The Hampden Residential Club, London, 1925
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Court is Sitting (Signed copy)
Signed by Ernest Pettifer, and where he describes the goings-on in the court
Ernest W Pettfier
Clegg & Sons, Bradford, 1940
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Man and the Hour
1934, an early Arthur Bryant title, with studies of Hitler, Mussolini etc
Arthur Bryant, editor
Philip Allan, London, 1934
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
A General's Letters to his Son on Obtaining his Commission (Signed copy)
1917, signed by the author under his real name (T D Pilcher)
Thomas D Pilcher, but published anonymously, preface by General H S Smith-Dorrien
Cassell, London, 1917
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Hours and the Centuries
1944, a first edition of Peter de Mendelssohn's timeslip novel
Peter de Mendelssohn
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1944
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas Discussed
1938, a solid copy of this seminal work of music criticism
Eric Blom
J M Dent, London, 1938
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores (Signed copy)
Signed by the author, Joseph Sinel, to entomologist K G Blair
Joseph Sinel
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1906
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
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 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
To-morrow for Apricots
c1930, an early Ursula Bloom title in original wrapper
Ursula Bloom
Hutchinson, London, 1930
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
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 Second World War
Winston Churchill's immense history complete in six volumes, 1948–1954
Winston S Churchill
Cassell, London, 1948
On Hold
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
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
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
A Country Garden
1936, with glorious wood engravings by John Farleigh
Ethel Armitage, engraved by John Farleigh
Country Life, London, 1936
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Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
West African Folk Tales
1917, many featuring Anansi, and illustrated by Cecilia Sinclair
William H Barker, and Cecilia Sinclair
George G. Harrap, London, 1917
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
