Browse by Date—1900–1949

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 129. Midsummer 1924
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1924
£35.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 128. Easter 1924
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1924
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 127. Christmas 1923
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1923
£35.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXVIII, No 126. Midsummer 1923
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1923
£40.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 125. Easter 1923
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1923
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXVII, No 124. Christmas 1922
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1922
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Britannia Magazine, Vol XXXVII, No 123. Midsummer 1922
An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, cover illustration by Bernard Partridge
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1922
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions

Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations
H R Dickinson, illustrated by A S Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, F C Dickinson, Charles Dixon, W Hatherell, H M Paget, Balliol Salmon, and the author.
Printed for the Author, 1906
£150.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated

Great Ghost Stories
1930, including Harrison Dale's introduction 'The Art of the Ghost Story'
Harrison Dale, editor
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1930
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Silvester's Sensible Cookery
c1920 a guide to low budget cookery with Hints to the Servantless...
Elizabeth Silvester
Selfridge & Co, London, 1920
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover

The Last Days of Paris
Alexander Werth's journalist's dairy from 1940 and the German invasion of France
Alexander Werth
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1940
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges
1901, in a full vellum binding and signed to Arthur L Hobhouse by his tutor at Eton College
Robert Bridges
George Bell & Sons, London, 1901
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Fine Bindings

The Longest Journey
1924, the first Uniform Edition of E M Forster's favourite of his own novels
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1924
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus

Beat (Signed copy)
Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)
Mrs Stanley Wrench
Duckworth & Co, London, 1917
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

The Lure of the Kelpie
1944, Helen Drever's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Highlands
Helen Drever
The Moray Press, Edinburgh, 1944
£24.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover

Lest We Forget, A War Anthology
1915, an early collection of WW1 verse
H B Elliott, editor, foreword by Baroness Orczy
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915
£14.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate

The Betrothal, or The Blue Bird Chooses
1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird
Maurice Maeterlinck
Methuen, London, 1919
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke
This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

The Records of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield
1921, first edition in 2 volumes, both signed by Montessori School founder and educationalist Phyllis Wallbank
E A Webb
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1921
£100.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated

The Last Inspection
1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories
Alun Lewis
Macmillan, New York, 1943
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Dawn and Sunset Gold, Poems of Love and Nature (Signed copy)
Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry
Samuel J Looker
S J Looker, Clapton, 1920
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Blackie's Children's Annual, Tenth Year of Issue
1915, with delightfully illustrated stories for children
Florence Harrison, with H M Brock, Jessie Pope, Alice Talwin Morris etc
Blackie & Son, London, 1915
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First thus | Illustrated

Human Life in Russia
1936, an illustrated study of the famine in the Soviet Union
Dr Ewald Ammende, introduction by The Rt Hon Lord Dickinson
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1936
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate

The Twilight of World Capitalism
1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism
William Z Foster
International Publishers, New York, 1949
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia
1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs
Clement M Doke
George G. Harrap, London, 1931
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated