Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Little Girl's Sweet Book
1924. Recipes for sweet treats and how to run a sweet stall...
Flora Klickmann, editor
Office of "The Girl's Own Paper", London, 1924
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
Slum Clearance and Rehousing
1934, first edition. The First Report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction
The Earl of Dudley, introduction
Council for Research on Housing Construction, London, 1934
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
Blood and Iron
1916, Impressions from the Western Front in France and Flanders, this copy signed by Major A A Macfarlane-Grieve
Wilson McNair
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1916
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
A Midsummer Memory
1910, limited edition, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Bookplate
Alone
1921, first edition, Norman Douglas's travels around Italy
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Original architect's drawing for a staircase for a hall
1946, hand-drawn, watercolour (with maid), and technical plan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original Architectural Drawing for an Author's Retreat
1946, hand-drawn and hand-coloured, a quiet country cottage with large writing room
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1946
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Hand-painted | Illustrated | Original Artwork
Original Architectural Drawing for a Small Dance Hall
1947, hand-drawn, with floorplan and two dancers in evening wear
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten | Illustrated | Original Artwork
The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences
1942 hardback edition of J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938
J B S Haldane
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942
£35.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Modern Dancing and Dancers
1912, hardback, a first edition on dancing, ballet, dancers, morris dancing...
J E Crawford Flitch
Grant Richards, London, 1912
£40.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Historique des 44e, 244e et 264e Regiments D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1914–1918
A Great War French WW1 regimental history including Roll of Honour
Not stated
Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Historique de 244e Regiment D'Artillerie de Campagne, 1 Avril 1917—30 Janvier 1919
A 1919 Great War French regimental history with Roll of Honour
Not stated
Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Therese
1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel
Francois Mauriac, translated by Eric Sutton
Martin Secker, London, 1928
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The "Green Pelican" and other stories
First edition, seven charming stories by Robert Tredinnick, aka Uncle Robert
Robert Tredinnick, illustrated by John Read
Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1944
£15.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Plays of Gods and Men
1917, first UK edition, containing four of Lord Dunsany's plays
Lord Dunsany
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1917
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Soldier Poets, Songs of the Fighting Men
Great War verse, 1916, the "Trench Edition" including Charles Hamilton Sorley, W N Hodgson, and Julian Grenfell
Galloway Kyle, preface, contributors include Charles Hamilton Sorley and Julian Grenfell
Erskine Macdonald, London, 1916
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Place Names in Kent
1921, the Hams, the Hithes, the Stones and the Tons...
Canon J W Horsley
South Eastern Gazette, Maidstone, 1921
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
Prince Otto, A Romance
1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chatto & Windus, London, 1906
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Ten Books by Andre Maurois
Uniformly bound in red / brown cloth, all early French language editions
Andre Maurois
Various, Paris, 1922
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover
They Went
A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1920
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Mireio, Pouemo Prouvencau / Mireille, Poeme Provencal
Mistral's long poem in both French and Occitan, in a fine leather Hachette binding
Frederic Mistral
Bibliotheque Charpentier, Paris, 1926
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
La Democrazia Cristiana e il Marxismo
1944, an Italian political discussion on Christian Democracy and Marxism
Mario Baronci, and Giuseppe Togni
Il Segno, Rome, 1944
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Littlest One (Signed copy)
1918, this copy signed and inscribed by Italia Conti, the actress and founder of the acting school
Marion St John Adcock, pseud. Mrs Sidney H Webb. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant
George G. Harrap, London, 1918
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
The Passing of Beatrice
1932, first edition, Gertrude Leigh's Study in the Heterodoxy of Dante
Gertrude Leigh
Faber & Faber, London, 1932
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
