Browse by Date—1900–1949
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939, first BC edition)
Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition
Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Lewis Galatiere, decorated by John O'H Cosgrave, II
Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated
Living (1948)
The second impression of Henry Green's Modernist novel centred around a Birmingham factory
Henry Green
The Hogarth Press, London, 1948
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Viceroy of India State Ball invitation and dance card 1919
Held at the viceregal lodge in Simla in October 1919
Viceroy of India
Viceroy of India, Simla, 1919
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
One Hundred Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery (1947)
In an attractive Barnett Freedman binding
John Rothenstein, binding design by Barnett Freedman
Tate Gallery, London, 1947
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Family of Tufnell (1924, first edition)
A privately printed family history from Elizabethan times, and including the family's Great War service
E Bertha Tufnell
Privately printed, 1924
£40.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
That Imaginative Don Quijote de la Mancha (2nd ed, 1914)
A fairly rare early copy of Robinson Smith's translation of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Robinson Smith
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1914
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
L'Ame du Vin (1932, first edition)
French author Constantin-Weyer's lyrical celebration of wine
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Rieder Editeur, Paris, 1932
£15.00
Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
Modern Music, January-February 1944, Volume XXI, Number 2
with pieces by Paul Bowles, Serge Prokofiev, and Albert Frankenstein
Minna Lederman, editor
The League of Composers, New York, 1944
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
Dévergondages, Souvenirs Érotiques (1937, first edition, 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
The Ghoul (1934)
Frank King's classic Mummy horror
Frank King
Readers Library, London, 1934
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1948, limited edition)
This copy in a unique leather Surrealist binding
Salvador Dali, translated by Haakon M Chevalier
Vision, London, 1948
£200.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound
The Conquered (1927)
Naomi Mitchison's first book, a tale of the Roman defeat of Gaul
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Cloud Cuckoo Land (1926, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's novel of the Peloponnesian War and the eclipse of Athens
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1926
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
When the Bough Breaks (1924, second impression)
Naomi Mitchison's short stories of the Roman Empire
Naomi Mitchison
Jonathan Cape, London, 1924
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927, first edition)
Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto & Windus, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Walter Pater, four first printings in the pocket edition
Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, The Renaissance, and Appreciations
Walter Pater
Macmillan, London, 1924
£25.00
Collections | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Jungle Book (1924) & The Second Jungle Book (1923)
Two very decent reprinted editions of Kipling's classic tales
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J Lockwood Kipling & W H Drake
Macmillan, London, 1924
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Anna Livia Plurabelle (1932)
James Joyce's short work that would be part of Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Faber & Faber, London, 1932
£30.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
The Life and Teaching of Jesus the Christ (1923, first edition)
This copy rebound in quarter leather and marbled page edges, with the crest of Christ's Hospital to the upper board
Rt Rev Arthur Cayley Headlam
John Murray, London, 1923
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
En Campagne 1914–1915, Impressions d'un Officier de Legere (1918)
Marcel Dupont WW1 memoirs, this edition for English students
Marcel Dupont, edited by G-C Bosset
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
The Oxford Book of French Verse, XIIIth century—XIIXth century
1920, first edition bound in full leather
St John Lucas
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1920)
A very good copy with Christ's Hospital crest in gilt
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1920
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
L'Atlantide
1924, a nicely bound copy of Pierre Benoit's 1919 classic French lost-world novel
Pierre Benoit
Albin Michel, Paris, 1924
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
A Gilbert and Sullivan Dictionary (1936, first edition)
An A to Z of all people, places and events, real and imaginary, in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
George E Dunn
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
