Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Story of the Heavens (1910)
Sir Robert Ball's astronomical classic, in a decorative binding
Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Cassell, London, 1910
£30.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Illustrated
In the Steps of the Brontes (1948, first edition)
Ernest Raymond's study in the uncommon dustwrapper
Ernest Raymond
Rich & Cowan, London, 1948
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1911)
An early printing of these thirteen adventures, illustrated by Sidney Paget
Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Paget
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Jane Eyre (Quick Readers, 1944)
A pocket sized paperback edition, with pulp fiction style illustrations
Charlotte Bronte, cover illustrated by Axelrod
Royce Publishers, Canada, 1944
£25.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Illustrated
White Fang (1907, first UK edition)
Jack London's classic, this is the first printing by Methuen
Jack London, frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull
Methuen, London, 1907
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Exercise Eskimo "Dry Cold", Volumes 1 & 2 (1945)
The Canadian Army's Winter Warfare Research Programme 1944–1945, a rare military publication
General Staff Canadian Army and Air Force
Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 1945
Sold
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Axel's Castle (1935, early edition)
Edmund Wilson's "A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930"
Edmund Wilson
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1935
£15.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover
Thais (1948, in a unique leather binding)
With 10 colour lithographs by Suzanne Ballivet, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Anatole France, illustrated by Suzanne Ballivet
Aux Editions du Livre, Monte Carlo, 1948
£120.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated | Slipcase
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, in a unique leather binding)
With 12 colour plates by DD, and from the library of Gordon R Smith with a signed Lynn Paula Russell bookplate
Spaddy, (pseud. Johannes Gros), illustrated by Berthomme Saint-Andre and DD. Bookplate signed by Lynn Paula Russell
A la Fontaine des Nymphes [Maurice Duflou], Paris, 1937
£300.00
Erotica | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Ulysses (1935, Odyssey Press)
The definitive third impression of James Joyce's modernist novel, a very good copy in the original glassine wraps and slipcase
James Joyce
The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, 1935
£150.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Slipcase
Daphnis and Chloe (1937, signed by Aristide Maillol)
Limited edition 54/250, additionally inscribed by Anton Zwemmer to E L T Mesens
Longus, translated by George Thornley, illustrated by Aristide Maillol
A Zwemmer, London, 1937
£700.00
Classics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Association Copy | Illustrated | Slipcase
Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poemes en Prose
1925, limited edition of Baudelaire's prose poems, illustrated by Louis Bouquet
Charles Baudelaire, illustrated by Louis Bouquet
Enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris, 1925
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Week-End Book (1928, in the original dustwrapper)
Illustrated with full page colour decorations by Albert Rutherston
Nonesuch Press, illustrated by Albert Rutherston
The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Field Marshal F S Roberts, signed envelope, South Africa c1902
Sent to Lt-Gen. Sir Leslie Rundle, commanding Harrismith
Field Marshal F S Roberts
Not Published, South Africa, 1902
£60.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Edward Tennyson Reed, 1904 handwritten letter and cartoon
featuring his famous 'Prehistoric Peeps'
Edward Tennyson Reed
Not Published, Wimbledon, 1904
£150.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten | Original Artwork
Gold Coast Chiefs List, Revised to 30th June, 1941
A list of the African head chiefs, and chiefs of towns and villages throughout the colony
Not stated
The Native Affairs Office, Accra, 1941
£35.00
History | Soft Cover
Christ's Hospital, A Retrospect (1923, first edition)
In an attractive full leather Christ's Hospital prize binding, given in 1924
Edmund Blunden
Christophers, London, 1923
£50.00
School & University Registers | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Kitchener Mystery (1926, first edition)
Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...
Frank Power, pseudonym of A V Freeman
The Rotary Press, London, 1926
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
East Suffolk, Illustrated (1909)
First thus, with 566 illustrations, a gazetteer of East Suffolk
H R Barker
F G Pawsey & Co. Ltd, Bury St Edmund's, 1909
£45.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
Canals, Cruises, and Contentment (1921, first edition)
Cruises on the Ellesmere and Oxford Canals in pre-war England
Austin E Neal
Heath Cranton, London, 1921
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Readers Library Cookery Book (1928)
in the original dustwrapper
Judith Ann Silburn
Readers Library, London, 1928
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Marie Lloyd, music hall singer, signed handwritten letter
Dated December 1902, and mentioning she is busy with panto and rehearsals
Marie Lloyd
Not Published, London, 1902
£95.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
A Study of Words (1911, first edition)
E W Blackburn's study of the philology and etymology of words
E W Blackburn
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911
£12.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Transactions of the Eighth Congress, Theosophical Society 1923
Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923
C W Dijkgraaf, editor, contributors include Jean Bindley, Mabel Besant-Scott and Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions
Interludes and Incantations, A Set of Poems (1927, limited edition)
Poems from minor Modernist poet B G Brooks, printed in Dijon by Maurice Darentierre
Benjamin Gilbert Brooks
Privately printed, Dijon, 1927
£25.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
