Browse by Date—1900–1949
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
Unfigured Harmony
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
Percy C Buck
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1946
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
Balfour's Romanes Lecture of 1909
Arthur James Balfour
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909
£10.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
Riallaro, The Archipelago of Exiles
1901, a rare first edition of a lost race satirical novel
Godfrey Sweven, (pseud. John MacMillan Brown)
G P Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Medical Gymnastics and Massage in General Practice
1926, treatments for all types of conditions
Dr J Arvdeson, translated and edited by Mina L Dobbie
J & A Churchill, London, 1926
£12.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
Two vols, 1924 & 1921, containing seven plays
George Bernard Shaw
Constable, London, 1924
£12.00
Drama | Hard Cover
The Brewing Room Diary & Year Book 1948
Packed with useful information to brewers and an unused diary
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd, London, 1948
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
The Cosmic Rhythm of Art and Literature
1948, a series of essays on French and English art and culture
Mary P Harris
Frank Cork, Adelaide, 1948
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Sounding Stones of Architecture
Philip N Youtz's philosophy of architecture (1929)
Philip N Youtz
W W Norton, New York, 1929
£12.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Story of Amaryllis
1908, Viola Taylor's first book of poetry
Viola Taylor
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1908
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Musik-Lexikon
1900, the fifth edition of the German musicologist Hugo Riemann's great work
Hugo Riemann
Max Hesse, Leipzig, 1900
£20.00
Music | Hard Cover
And Then You Wish (Signed copy)
Signed by John Van Druten to Vivian de Sola Pinto
John Van Druten
Little, Brown & Company, London, 1937
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Les Chants du Bivouac
1914, a rare collection of soldier songs from the Great War
Theodore Botrel, preface by Maurice Barres, illustrated by Carlegle, and with a portrait of the author by Paul Jobert
Payot et Cie, Paris, 1914
£10.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Plan 6, Architectural Students Association Journal 1949
This issue a long illustrated article on architecture
John Killick, et al, editors
Arch. S. A. Journal Committee, London, 1949
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
