Browse by Date—1900–1949
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A superb selection of bakery recipes from 1917
Masterman
Maclaren & Sons, London, 1917
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
Shakespeare's History Plays
The first printing from 1944
E M W Tillyard
Chatto & Windus, London, 1944
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Shakespearean Tragedy
Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
A C Bradley
Macmillan, London, 1922
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover
A Preface to Shakespeare
This copy from the library of James Craigie
George H Cowling
Methuen, London, 1925
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III
An examination of the plays including their authorship
Peter Alexander, with an introduction by Alfred W Pollard
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1929
£20.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates
and the Problems of the Transmission of his Text
Alfred W Pollard
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1920
£12.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover
The Fortunes of Falstaff
An expanded version of J Dover Wilson's Clark Lectures of 1943
John Dover Wilson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1943
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Life of William Shakespeare
A comprehensive biography
Joseph Quincy Adams
Constable, London, 1923
£12.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
Short Studies in Shakespeare
Macbeth, Hamlet, Falstaff...
G F Bradby
John Murray, London, 1929
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
What Happens in Hamlet
1935, a first printing of this classic Shakespeare criticism
John Dover Wilson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1935
£30.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
William Shakespeare, A Study of Facts and Problems
Two volumes, complete, Chamber's collection of Shakespearean documents
E K Chambers
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930
£40.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony
Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by W A Dwiggins
The Heritage Press, New York, 1946
£10.00
Heritage Press | Hard Cover | First thus | Slipcase
My Letters from Heaven
Being Messages from the Unseen World Given in Automatic Writing to Winifred Graham from her Father, Robert George Graham
Winifred Graham
Hutchinson, London, 1925
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover
Shakespeare's Sonnets & Shakespeare, A Commentary
Two pocket editions
William Shakespeare, and M R Ridley
J M Dent, London, 1936
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First thus
The Golden Carpet
Somerset de Chair's mile-by-mile account of action in Iraq in the Second World War
Somerset de Chair
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
£10.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
New Writing 3, Spring 1937
includes the first printing of W H Auden's "Lay your sleeping head, my love", and Isherwood's Berlin Diary
John Lehmann, editor.
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1937
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Girton College Register 1869–1946
including Herta Ayrton, Rosamond Lehmann, Philippa Pearce...
Not stated
Privately printed, Cambridge, 1948
£25.00
School & University Registers | Hard Cover | First Editions
Inside Europe
An early edition of John Gunther's first "Inside" book
John Gunther
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1936
£20.00
History | Hard Cover
The Nutmeg Tree
This copy signed and dedicated by Flora Robson
Margery Sharp
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1938
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Wild Talents
Charles Fort's 1932 book of vampires, werewolves, talking dogs, poltergeists...
Charles Fort
Claude Kendall, New York, 1932
£25.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maum Nancy (Signed copy)
Limited edition, signed by Susan Merrick Heywood
Susan Merrick Hayward, illustrated by Wilbur G Kurtz
Mabel Loeb & Virginia Pairo, Atlanta, Georgia, 1937
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
A Writer's Notebook
Somerset Maugham's notebook from 1892 to 1949
W Somerset Maugham
Heinemann & The Book Society, London, 1949
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Selbys
In a superb, original Jazz Age wrapper
Anne Green
Ernest Benn, London, 1930
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Golden Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion
Stamped presentation copy and with De Montmorency bookplate
James George Frazer
Macmillan, London, 1922
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First thus
The Great Offensive, The Strategy of Coalition Warfare (Signed copy)
Signed by the translator Heinz Norden
Max Werner, translated by Heinz and Ruth Norden
Victor Gollancz, London, 1943
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
