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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
£15.00
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
£18.00
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
£20.00
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
£15.00
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
£15.00
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
£15.00
Military & War | Soft 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
Beat (Signed copy)
Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)
Mrs Stanley Wrench
Duckworth & Co, London, 1917
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
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
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
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
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
The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower
Ernest Dowson, edited with an introduction by Desmond Flower
Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Work and Wages (Signed copies)
Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'
Sydney J Chapman, with an introduction by Lord Brassey
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904
£40.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate
A Waste of Rice, Spondee Discovers Marriage
1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life
Spondee, pseud. Caryl Brahms, frontispiece by J P Sayer
Denis Archer, London, 1933
£30.00
Humour | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Bon Mot; A Calendar of Scintillating Wisdom
An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...
Not stated
Hills, London, 1936
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover
Looking Backward (2000—1887), or, Life in the Year 2000 A.D.
A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel
Edward Bellamy
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920
£12.00
Fiction | Soft Cover
War Injuries of the Chest
1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea
H Morriston Davies, and Robert Coope (editors)
E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942
£10.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Roll of Honour, Arbroath and District 1939–1945
with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties
Marion Angus, foreword
T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Johnson over Jordan
1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo
J B Priestley
William Heinemann, London, 1939
£22.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Post Office London Directory with County Suburbs for 1916
Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists
Kelly's Directories
Kelly's Directories, London, 1916
£170.00
Genealogy & Family History | Hard Cover
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
