Browse by Date—1900–1949

The Kitchener Mystery (1926, first edition)
Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...
Frank Power, pseudonym of A V Freeman
The Rotary Press, London, 1926
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

Canals, Cruises, and Contentment (1921, first edition)
Cruises on the Ellesmere and Oxford Canals in pre-war England
Austin E Neal
Heath Cranton, London, 1921
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Readers Library Cookery Book (1928)
in the original dustwrapper
Judith Ann Silburn
Readers Library, London, 1928
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Marie Lloyd, music hall singer, signed handwritten letter
Dated December 1902, and mentioning she is busy with panto and rehearsals
Marie Lloyd
Not Published, London, 1902
£95.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten

Transactions of the Eighth Congress, Theosophical Society 1923
Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923
C W Dijkgraaf, editor, contributors include Jean Bindley, Mabel Besant-Scott and Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Turmoil (First thus, 1915)
From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series
Booth Tarkington
Louis Conard, Paris, 1915
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus

One Summer's Day, Comedy, in Three Acts (1900)
An early edition of H V Esmond's play
H V Esmond
Samuel French Limited, London, 1900
£12.00
Drama | Soft Cover

A Primer for Peace and War (1915, first edition)
Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality
Charles Plater, editor
P S King & Son, London, 1915
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Lady of the Canaries (1913, first edition)
Seven short stories by St John Lucas
St John Lucas
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan (1907, first edition)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield
The Century Co, London, 1907
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Present-Day Egypt (1903)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield, illustrated by Paul Philippoteaux and R Talbot Kelly
The Century Co, New York, 1903
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire (1793–1795)
Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani
G Lenotre, pseudonym of Théodore Gosselin
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin
1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga
Seamus O Duilearga, editor
Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944
£18.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover

Destroyer from America (Signed first edition)
1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties
John Fernald, illustrated by John Worsley
Jonathan Cape, London, 1942
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated

The Curse of Khatra (1947, first edition)
One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics
T C H Jacobs
Stanley Paul, London, 1947
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Expert Cigarette Magic (1932, first edition)
With Demon's Head bookseller ticket from L Davenport
D Deveen, with a foreword by Oswald Williams
Edward Bagshawe, London, 1932
£15.00
Magic | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

The Defence of London 1915–1918
1924, third edition of Rawlinson's account of the Zeppelin and Gotha raids on London
Augustus Rawlinson, with an introduction by Admiral Sir Percy Scott
Andrew Melrose, London, 1924
£22.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Illustrated

The Crafty Farmer, A Spanish Folk Tale (Signed first edition)
1938, signed by Gregorio Prieto
Gregorio Prieto, illustrator. Translated and introduced by Henry Thomas
The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938
£50.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Three early 20th Century Luigi Prandello Plays
1924/1925, Il Piacere dell'Onestà; Pensaci, Giacomino!; and La Vita che ti Diedi
Luigi Pirandello
Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze (Florence), 1924
£15.00
Drama | Soft Cover

The Law of Political Uniforms, Public Meetings and Private Armies
Joseph Baker's 1937 book hot on the heels of the Public Order Act 1936 and the British Union of Fascists
Joseph Baker
H A Just & Co, London, 1937
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions

Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£20.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions

Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

The Art of Public Speaking
c1923, with tips on electioneering etc
Lucy D Bell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover

The Right to Strike
A rare 1921 novel of industrial action and its consequences
Ernest Hutchinson, and Geo. Goodchild
Robert Hayes, London, 1921
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Original photograph of the Japanese Peace Envoy, August 1945
Taken at Mingaladon Airfield (Rangoon) and showing Esler Dening, Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata and Rear Admiral Kaigun Chujo Chudo
Not stated
Not stated, Rangoon (Burma), 1945
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover

