Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Maze
Philip Macdonald's exercise in detection
Philip Macdonald
Collins Crime Club, London, 1938
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Mary Queen of Scots
Her Environment and Tragedy. A Biography in two volumes
T F Henderson
Hutchinson, London, 1905
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The New Testament in Greek
A good, solid copy from 1908
F H A Scrivener
University Press, Cambridge, 1908
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Russian Fairy Tales
from the Skazki of Polevoi, and illustrated by Noel Laura Nisbet
R Nisbet Bain, illustrated by Noel L Nisbet
George G. Harrap, London, 1915
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First thus
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
1928, first printing in John Lane's Weekend Series
G K Chesterton
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
The New Testament in Scots
Vols 1 & 2, being Purvey's Revision of Wycliffe's Version Turned into Scots by Murdoch Nisbet c1520
Thomas Graves Law
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1901
Sold
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Masters of Mystery
One of the first critical studies of detective fiction
H Douglas Thomson
Collins, London, 1932
£30.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century
Elie Halevy's seven volume masterpiece
Elie Halevy, translated by E I Watkin & D A Barker, with an introduction by R B McCallum
Ernest Benn, London, 1949
£50.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Teutonic Myth and Legend
with four plates in colour and 31 in monochrome
Donald A Mackenzie
The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1912
£25.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Celtic Myth and Legend
with four colour and 20 monochrome plates
Charles Squire
The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1912
£25.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Nineteen-Twenties
Literature and Ideas in the post-War Decade
A C Ward
Methuen, London, 1930
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Indictment of Mary Queen of Scots
from a 1568 unpublished MS in Cambridge University library
R H Mahon
University Press, Cambridge, 1923
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Babbitt
First UK edition of Sinclair Lewis's classic satire
Sinclair Lewis, with an introduction by Hugh Walpole
Jonathan Cape, London, 1922
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Twelfth Night
with handwritten cast list from the Royal High School, Edinburgh, in 1924
William Shakespeare, preface by Israel Gollancz
J M Dent, London, 1923
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Four Virginia Woolf titles
A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, Jacob's Ladder, and The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf, one with a wrapper by Vanessa Bell
Various, London, 1929
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover
Mrs Beeton's Every-Day Cookery
1907, with recipes and kitchen management
Mrs Beeton
Ward Lock & Co, London, 1907
£25.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
The Stones of Scotland
a Batsford book in the original Brian Cook dustwrapper
George Scott-Moncrieff, editor.
Batsford, London, 1938
£15.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Essays in Satire
Eleven essays from Ronald Knox
Ronald A Knox
Sheed and Ward, London, 1928
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions
Under a Glass Bell
First UK edition of Anais Nin's 13 short stories
Anais Nin, line drawings by Ian Hugo
Editions Poetry, London, 1947
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Canape Book
A super little book with delightful illustrations
Rachel Bell Maiden, decorations by Lucina Smith Wakefield
D Appleton, New York, 1937
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
London County Council, Record of Service in the Great War 1914–1918
A complete record including history and those who died
LCC
London County Council, London, 1922
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
We'll Shift our Ground: or, Two on a Tour
Edmund Blunden's only novel, written with his wife Sylva Norman
Edmund Blunden, and Sylva Norman
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1933
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Psychical Forces and You (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Louis S Vernon-Worsley
Louis S Vernon-Worsley
L N Fowler, London, 1939
£30.00
Paranormal & Supernatural | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Deadfalls and Snares
A book about trapping, but from the library of the University of London Animal Welfare Society (ULAWS) and siged by its founder.
A R Harding
A R Harding, Columbus, Ohio, 1907
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Folk-Tales of Bengal
contains 22 tales of myth and legend
Rev. Lal Behari Day
Macmillan, London, 1920
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover
