Browse by Date—1900–1949
General Strike certificate 1926
issued as acknowledgement for Miss E Johnson acting as a canteen worker
Not stated
London General Omnibus Company, London, 1926
£20.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Secret Agent
1914, the fourth edition of Conrad's classic novel
Joseph Conrad
Methuen, London, 1914
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Now Pray We For Our Country
1940, a scarce Eric Knight novel of a mining village in Yorkshire
Eric Knight
Cassell, London, 1940
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Journey's End, A Play in Three Acts
1929, The third printing of the American edition
R C Sherriff
Brentano's, New York, 1929
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Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Dream Children, A Reverie, and The Child Angel, A Dream
1902, two essays from Charles Lamb in an attractive leather binding
Charles Lamb
De La More Press, London, 1902
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Dorothy Wilding, 1928 photograph of Prince George, Duke of Kent
Signed by both Dorothy Wilding and Prince George
Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding, London, 1928
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco (with signed letter)
With a handwritten letter from R B Cunningham Graham pasted in
R B Cunningham Graham
Duckworth & Co, London, 1928
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
The Dark Island
1934, a Hogarth Press first edition of Vita Sackville-West's novel
Vita Sackville-West, with map drawn by Ben Nicolson
The Hogarth Press, London, 1934
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology
1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Photograph album of Russian tanks made in Smethwick, September 1941
Valentine Mk2 tanks being unveiled in front of the Russian ambassador, Ivan Maisky, and Harold Macmillan
Not stated
Not stated, Smethwick, 1941
£200.00
Military & War | Hard Cover
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Long Whip
The Story of a Great Husky (in Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition)
Jane Brevoort Walden, and Stuart D L Paine
Chapman & Hall, London, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
The Sun Queen & People of the Twilight
Two weird fiction first editions from H Kaner
Hyman Kaner, dustwrapper design by H W Perl
The Kaner Publishing Company, Llandudno, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay
J Sheridan Le Fanu's ghost story, including Madam Crowl's Ghost
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, introduction by Herbert Van Thal, frontispiece and wrapper by Felix Kelly
Home and Van Thal Ltd, London, 1947
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Marriage of Anne
1927, a Jazz Age romance from Concordia Merrel
Concordia Merrel, dustwrapper design by John Drew
George H Doran, New York, 1927
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Scots Kitchen
1931 (seventh impression); Its Traditions and Lore with Old-Time Recipes
F Marian McNeill
Blackie & Son, London & Glasgow, 1931
On Hold
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Rambler's Recollections & Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer
Alfred Capper
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915
£50.00
Magic | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Julia, Daughter of Claudius
1927, Gertrude Trevelyan's first work and winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry
Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Worzel Gummidge Again
1937, first edition of the second Worzel adventure
Barbara Euphan Todd, illustrated by Elizabeth Alldridge
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1937
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
England, their England
1935, a fairly early printing of A G Macdonell's satire in the original wrapper
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper