Browse by Date—1900–1949
A Wiltshire Childhood (1929, first edition)
A reading copy of Ida Gandy's memoir
Ida Gandy, illustrated by Marjorie Whittington
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1929
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Gentle Art of Cookery, with 750 Recipes (1929)
A fair copy only but perfectly usable
C F Leyel, and Olga Hartley
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929
£10.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First thus
Jealousy (1933, first edition)
An early novel from the prolific Norah C James
Norah C James
Duckworth & Co, London, 1933
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Faber Book of Comic Verse (1944, signed copy)
Signed by the compiler, Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts, compiler
Faber & Faber, London, 1944
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Aliens (1914, first edition)
William McFee's first novel, a story of expatriates in New Jersey
William McFee
Edward Arnold, London, 1914
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913, An Anthology
with handwritten poem by Amy Key Clarke, and early verse by Aleister Crowley, Rupert Brooke etc
Aelfrida Tillyard, editor
W Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1913
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Handwritten
Les Croquis de Louis Oury (c1920, assumed first edition)
The sketchbooks of French sculptor Louis Oury
Louis Oury
Devambez, Paris, 1920
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1920s edition, with 16 colour plates by Willy Pogany
Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Willy Pogany
George G. Harrap, London, 1920
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Sesame and Lilies (1906)
Half-vellum binding by Hatchards of John Ruskin's lectures
John Ruskin
George Allen, London, 1906
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Essays | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Modern German Art (1938, first edition)
Oto Bihalji-Merin's defence of modern German avant-garde aginst the Nazi's condemnation of 'degenerate' art
Peter Thoene, pseud. Oto Bihalji-Merin, translated by Charles Fullman, introduction by Herbert Read
Penguin Books, London, 1938
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Most Women... (1931, first edition)
Alec Waugh's writings of women in various setting around the world, woodcuts by Lynd Ward
Alec Waugh
Cassell, London, 1931
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Island of Green Myrtles (1937, signed first edition)
Signed and dated by Shirley Watkins
Shirley Watkins
Macrae-Smith Company, Philadelphia, 1937
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Undertones of War (1930, first revised edition)
Edmund Blunden's classic Great War memoir
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1930
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First thus
Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats (1929)
Revised edition of Ruskin's edition, some illustrations by Kate Greenaway
Francesca Marshall, with original rhymes edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Robert Stennett and Kate Greenaway
David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
A History of Departed Things (Signed first edition, 1918)
Signed by Ruth Head to Edith Olivier
Mrs Henry Head, signed as Ruth Head
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1918
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Art in Needlework, A Book about Embroidery (1901)
Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam's copy with her bookplate
Lewis F Day, and Mary Buckle
Batsford, London, 1901
£40.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | Association Copy
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1920)
The twelfth impression of Bram Stoker's posthumous collection of tales
Bram Stoker
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920
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Fiction | Hard Cover
A Woman of the Tudor Age (1930, first edition)
Lady Cecil Goff's study of Katherine Willoughby, 4th Duchess of Suffolk
Lady Cecile Goff
John Murray, London, 1930
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
L'Art, Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell (1924)
Auguste Rodin's aesthetic and philosophical testament
Auguste Rodin
Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1924
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Suitcase Theatre, with Three Plays for Puppets (1946, first edition)
C W Blanchard's guide to creating a portable puppet theatre
C W Blanchard, foreword by Doctor E Davies. Illustrated by the author and H W Whanslaw
Deveraux Publications, London, 1946
£30.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Marine Painting in Water-Colour (1919)
With 24 tipped in plates of W L Wyllie's paintings
W L Wyllie, introduction by Edwin Bale
Cassell, London, 1919
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Illustrated
John Hugh Allen of the Gallant Company (1919, first edition)
A biography of the New Zealander killed at Gallipoli in 1915
Ina Montgomery
Edward Arnold, London, 1919
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Blue Tapestry (1948, first edition)
The autobiography of Vera Laughton Mathews, Director of the WRNS from 1939 to 1946
Vera Laughton Mathews
Hollis and Carter, London, 1948
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Frans Masereel (1948, first German edition)
An excellent selection of Masereel's woodcuts
Gerhart Ziller
Sachsenverlag, Dresden, 1949
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Book of Margery Kempe, A Modern Version
The life of a 15th century laywoman, widely considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language
Margery Kempe, edited by W Butler-Bowdon, introduction by W R Chambers
Jonathan Cape, London, 1940
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
