Browse by Date—1900–1949
Eight Edith Sitwell poetry first editions
Ranging from 1942 to 1963, five with dustwrappers.
Edith Sitwell
Macmillan, London, 1942
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Le Slovo D'Igor
Andre Mazon's study of the 12th century Slavic epic poem
Andre Mazon
Libraire Droz, Paris, 1940
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Soft Cover | First Editions
Where the Rainbow Ends
c1925, Clifford Mills' fairy tale illustrated by Leo Bates
Clifford Mills, illustrated by Leo Bates
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925
£60.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
The Joyous Wheel
1940, the artist's observations and experiences during his bicycling tours
James Arnold
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1940
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Resurrection
1905, the complete and final revision of Tolstoy's novel, illustrated by Leonid Pasternak
Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude, illustrated by Leonid Pasternak
Archibald Constable & Co, London, 1905
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated
Rupert Brooke: Three books, poetry, prose & biography
including Democracy and the Arts (1946) and Timothy Rogers' Reappraisal
Rupert Brooke, including Edward Marsh and Timothy Rogers
Various, London, 1926
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three books, Poems & Letters
including a first printing of Letters from America (1916) and an early Poems (1915)
Rupert Brooke, with Henry James, and Walter de la Mare
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three books, Poetry and Biography
Including an early American edition of Poems, and Christopher Hassall's biography
Rupert Brooke, with Geoffrey Keynes (editor), and Christopher Hassall
Various, London & New York, 1916
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three books, Poems & biography
including John Lehmann's biography and a third impression of Poems (1915)
Rupert Brooke, and John Lehmann & Henry James
Various, London, 1915
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three volumes of poetry
including an early printing of '1914', and collected poems with Edward Marsh's memoir
Rupert Brooke, with Edward Marsh's memoir
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Across South America
1912, a first UK edition of Hiram Bingham's travels through South America
Hiram Bingham
Constable, London, 1912
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The House at Pooh Corner
1928, second edition, a fair copy only, but with E H Shepard's deligthful illustrations
A A Milne, with decorations by E H Shepard
Methuen, London, 1928
£22.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Through Beds of Stone (Signed copy)
1928, signed by M L Haskins, her first novel
M L Haskins
Macmillan, London, 1928
£80.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
An album of 162 medal ribbons, British & Foreign, and 37 black & white photographs
Collected in 1939/40 by a member of the 82nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Ribbons ranging from mid-Victorian to the 1930s
Not stated, owned by Gnr A S Abrams, RA, and pieced together by Capt D W Warren
Not Published, United Kingdom, 1940
£300.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Handwritten
Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters
1938, a collection of works of Julian Bell, son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, killed in the Spanish Civil War
Julian Bell, edited by Quentin Bell, with contributions from J M Keynes, David Garnett, Charles Mauron, C Day Lewis, and E M Forster
The Hogarth Press, London, 1938
£150.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Book of Topiary
1904, volume XVIII in the Handbooks of Practical Gardening
Charles H Curtis, and W Gibson
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1904
£30.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
An Experiment with Time
A first printing of J W Dunne's first Serialism book
J W Dunne
A & C Black, London, 1927
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Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions
Thieves in the Night: Chronicle of an Experiment
Arthur Koestler's novel of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish Settlements in British Palestine
Arthur Koestler
Macmillan, London, 1946
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like
A limited edition of Norman Douglas's writings, numbered No 10 of 650
Norman Douglas
Chatto & Windus, London, 1931
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
In Seventy Days (RESERVED)
E M Glover's account of the Japanese conquest of Malaya in the Second World War
Edwin Maurice Glover
Frederick Muller, London, 1946
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Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Hand-illuminated & handwritten Edgar Guest poem
"Living", the artwork and calligraphy by Mrs Elizabeth Monck of Rugby, framed and glazed
Elizabeth Faith Monck, after Edgar Guest
Not Published, Rugby, 1933
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Handwritten | Hand-painted | Original Artwork
Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts
with the bookplate of Sydney Burney by Lee-Elliott
Mrs Jameson
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1900
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Bookplate
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Plato's Socratic dialogues—the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo
Plato, translated by F J Church
Macmillan, London, 1928
£10.00
Classics | Hard Cover
Moving Along, Just a Diary
Giuseppe Orioli's Italian walking tour with Norman Douglas
Giuseppe Orioli
Chatto & Windus, London, 1934
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Inconstancy of Madam Chuang
1924, six Chinese stories from Chin Ku Ch'i Kuan
E B Howell, translator, illustrated by "a native artist"
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1924
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
