Browse by Date—1900–1949
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
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
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
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
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
Sold
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited 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
In Ruhleben Camp, No 4. August Bank Holiday Number, 1915
A 1915 copy of the civilian internee magazine from the Great War
Not stated
J S Preuss, Berlin, 1915
£15.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
La Retraite Sentimentale
1914 edition of Colette's first sole authorship novel
Colette
Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1914
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
A Mainsail Haul
John Masefield's tales of sea faring and legends
John Masefield, frontispiece by Jack B Yeats
Elkin Mathews, London, 1913
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students
1915, with nude photographs
Arthur Thomson
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1915
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover
Drake's Drum (Signed copy)
Signed by Draycot M Dell, the co-creator of the 1933 King Kong screenplay
Draycot M Dell
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1920
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Queer Things about London
1926, all those things that make up London...
Charles G Harper
Cecil Palmer, London, 1926
£12.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1913, in a fine half leather binding by Bumpus
Robert Louis Stevenson
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1913
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Tunnel Trench, A Play in Three Acts
1924, a Great War play set in the Allied offensive of 1918
Hubert Griffith
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1924
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Unknown Warrior, A Tragedy in Three Acts
A Great War drama, Cecil Lewis's 1928 translation of Paul Raynal's anti-war play
Paul Raynal, translated by Cecil Lewis
Methuen, London, 1928
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Jungle Book
1902, an early printing in the uniform edition
Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J L Kipling, W H Drake, and P Frenzeny
Macmillan, London, 1902
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Second Jungle Book
1901, an early printing in the uniform edition
Rudyard Kipling, with decorations by J Lockwood Kipling
Macmillan, London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Poems
A scarce 1913 second printing of Rupert Brooke's early verse
Rupert Brooke
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1913
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
