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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

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