Browse by Date—1900–1949
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, child's dress
with a dress pattern meticulously painted in
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, summer wedding dress
An elegant dress, with bolero jacket and flowers
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, column evening dress
A very detailed dress pattern and headwear sketches to the back
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original colour fashion illustration, 1930s elegant garden party dress
with a highly detailed dress pattern painted in
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original colour fashion illustration, 1930s Riviera Resort Wear
With a lovely hand-painted sailing boat design to the dress
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Chinoiserie style
A nicely detailed oriental style dress
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Indian dress
Well-painted with detailed jewellery
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration: bridal dress
Painted in watercolour / gouache, on a pinkish background
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£25.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s colour fashion illustration, Thai / Siamese dress
A very detailed design
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£30.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies and the fashions of 1939
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the three ladies wearing the latest styles
Not stated
Not stated, 1939
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: couture showroom of fur coats
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, featuring a client, the model and a vendeuse
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: an elegant sweeping lady
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the style suggesting late 1930s
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£50.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies at the opera
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, a very elegant piece
Not stated
Not stated, 1938
£60.00
Fashion, Costume & Etiquette | Soft Cover | Original Artwork
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
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
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
Sold
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
