Browse by Date—1900–1949
Memoirs of Edward, Earl of Sandwich 1839–1916
1919, first edition of the peers memoirs
Mrs Steuart Erskine
John Murray, London, 1919
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
On Freedom
1911, politician and poet Godfrey Locker Lampson's study of freedom
Godfrey Locker Lampson
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
High Wycombe Furniture
Lawrence Weaver's treatise on Buckingham furniture
Lawrence Weaver
The Fanfare Press, London, 1929
£20.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Milk in the Cocoanut
1933, a work of speculative fiction by W Barnard Faraday
W Barnard Faraday, as W Bernard Faraday to the spine
Denis Archer, London, 1933
£45.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Boy in the Bush
First US edition of D H Lawrence's novel set in Western Australia
D H Lawrence, and M L Skinner
Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1924
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Life and Death of Jason (Signed copy)
This copy signed by American writer and anthologist Edward J O'Brien
William Morris
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1914
Sold
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
Candle in the Dark, A Postscript to Despair
This copy signed by British author Rumer Godden
Irwin Edman
The Viking Press, New York, 1939
£12.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pilate's Wife
French author Jean Damase's first novel
Jean Damase, translated from the French by Arthur Mayne
Duckworth & Co, London, 1932
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Warrior's Path
A Native American kidnap novel from American author Don Ryan
Don Ryan
Duckworth & Co, London, 1937
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Handling a Low-Powered Steamer in a Revolving Storm
A 1929 prize-winning essay
Captain J S Commander
Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, 1929
£20.00
Transport | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Bounty of the Gods, A Study in Points of View (1910)
and its sequel The Polar Star (1911)
Lady Helen Forbes
Duckworth & Co, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Echo
Shaw Desmond's novel of reincarnation set in Nero's Rome
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1927
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Passion
An early novel from Shaw Desmond
Shaw Desmond
Duckworth & Co, London, 1920
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Fundamental Problems of Marxism
1941, this copy owned and signed by architect & planner, Graeme Shankland
G V Plekhanov, edited by D Ryazanov
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1941
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
A Rambler's Recollections & Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer
Alfred Capper
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915
£40.00
Magic | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Bookplate
Squad
1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War
James B Wharton
Coward-McCann, New York, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Old Contemptibles, Mons to Ypres 1914 (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Brice
Beatrix Brice, pseudonym of Beatrix Charlotte Mary Gull
Old Contemptibles Association, London, 1939
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Technique and Spirit of Fugue
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
George Oldroyd
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1949
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
