Browse by Date—1900–1949
Spontaneous Activity in Education
1917, a first UK of Maria Montessori's method of education
Maria Montessori, translated from the Italian by Florence Simmons and Lily Hutchinson
William Heinemann, London, 1917
£25.00
Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | First Editions
Contemporary Music (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert H Hull, Hogarth Essays second series
Robert H Hull, cover design by Vanessa Bell
The Hogarth Press, London, 1927
£50.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Ploughman's Folly
1945, a first printing of this farming classic
Edward H Faulkner, with a foreword by S Graham Brade-Birks
Michael Joseph, London, 1945
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Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Book of Elizabethan Verse
1908, in full vellum with gilt decoration
William S Braithwaite
Chatto & Windus, London, 1908
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Billiards
1915, illustrated with 84 photographs
Tom Reece, and W G Clifford
A & C Black, London, 1915
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Mystical Element of Religion
as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her Friends. 1927, two volumes (complete)
Baron Friedrich von Hugel
J M Dent, London, 1927
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover
The Hampden Club Magazine
The first 12 issues (1924/1925) for London's The Hampden Residential Club
Norman W Rae, editor
The Hampden Residential Club, London, 1925
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The City We Loved: Coventry, England
c1942, a record of the devastating Blitz in the West midlands city
Various
Three Spires Publishing, Coventry, 1942
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Court is Sitting (Signed copy)
Signed by Ernest Pettifer, and where he describes the goings-on in the court
Ernest W Pettfier
Clegg & Sons, Bradford, 1940
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Man and the Hour
1934, an early Arthur Bryant title, with studies of Hitler, Mussolini etc
Arthur Bryant, editor
Philip Allan, London, 1934
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Wonderful Dog & Other Tales
Russian author Michael Zoshchcenko's 1942 short stories
Michael Zoshchenko
Methuen, London, 1942
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A General's Letters to his Son on Obtaining his Commission (Signed copy)
1917, signed by the author under his real name (T D Pilcher)
Thomas D Pilcher, but published anonymously, preface by General H S Smith-Dorrien
Cassell, London, 1917
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Gigins Court
A Bruce Graeme thriller in the original dustwrapper
Bruce Graeme
Hutchinson, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Trail of the White Knight
1935, a Bruce Graeme thriller in the original dustwrapper
Bruce Graeme
George G. Harrap, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Trouble!
A Bruce Graeme thriller in the original dustwrapper
Bruce Graeme
George G. Harrap, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Faces in the Fire
F W Boreham's short tales, essays and fancies
F W Boreham
Charles H Kelly, London, 1916
£40.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Hours and the Centuries
1944, a first edition of Peter de Mendelssohn's timeslip novel
Peter de Mendelssohn
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1944
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Black Hamlet
This copy from the Munger Africana Library
Wulf Sachs
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1947
£15.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
More Bandobast
1936, Snaffles' illustrations of sporting life on the North-West Frontier
Snaffles
Collins, London, 1936
£30.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | First Editions
Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas Discussed
1938, a solid copy of this seminal work of music criticism
Eric Blom
J M Dent, London, 1938
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
Karma and Rebirth
A first edition, published in the midst of the Second World War
T Christmas Humphreys
John Murray, London, 1943
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Italian Lakes
1908, with 68 colour plates by Ella Du Cane
Ella Du Cane, illustrator, text by Richard Bagot
A & C Black, London, 1908
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Organic Architecture; The Architecture of Democracy
1941, four lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lund Humphries, London, 1941
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores (Signed copy)
Signed by the author, Joseph Sinel, to entomologist K G Blair
Joseph Sinel
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1906
£50.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
La Sagesse et La Destinee
Maurice Maeterlinck's philosophical work on the nature of life, death, etc
Maurice Maeterlinck
Bibliotheque Charpentier, Paris, 1923
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
