Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Dowager of Jerusalem
A play by the famous plant-collector, Reginald Farrer
Reginald Farrer
Edward Arnold, London, 1908
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Tudor School-Boy Life
Twenty-five dialogues by Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives, translated by Foster Watson
J M Dent, London, 1908
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlof's timeless Swedish fable
Selma Lagerlof, translated by Velma Swanston Howard. Decorations by Harold Heartt
Arthur F Bird, London, 1912
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Harvest
A collection of writings from Swedish author, Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof, translated by Florence and Naboth Hedin
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1935
£15.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions
Children's Stories from Russian Fairy Tales
1917, with 12 colour plates by Arthur A Dixon
Seraphima Pulman, (translator), illustrated by Arthur A Dixon
Raphael Tuck, London, 1917
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Songs from the Desert
A rare 1917 first edition of Australian Great War poetry
A Lighthorseman, pseud. Godfrey William Warren White
Whitehead, Morris & Co, Cairo, 1917
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Difficult Love
1927, an early collection of verse from L A G Strong
L A G Strong
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Opus 7
A long narrative poem from Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chatto & Windus, London, 1931
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The New Providence
Sold at Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co bookshop in Paris
R H Mottram
Chatto & Windus, London, 1930
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman
c1927, in a super dustwrapper
E W Hornung
Reader's Library, London, 1927
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Evening in Spring
August Derleth's novel of first love
August Derleth
Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, 1945
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
If It Had Happened Otherwise
Lapses into Imaginary History
J C Squire, (editor), contributors include Winston Churchill, Ronald Knox and Hilaire Belloc
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1931
£80.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
De la Terre a la Lune Trajet Direct en 97 Heures 20 Minutes
A god reading copy of Jules Verne's 1865 novel
Jules Verne, illustrated by Montaut
Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1931
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Twenty Five Years of Progress
An illustrated Siemens brochure from 1930, detailing achievments in railway power and automatic signalling 1905–1930
Siemens
Siemens & General Electric, London, 1930
£20.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
Oeuvres Completes de Paul Verlaine
Volume 1 of the French symbolist poet's works
Paul Verlaine
Leon Vanier, Paris, 1905
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
English Fairy Tales
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with Rackham's 1926 Christmas Card pasted in annotated by himself
Flora Annie Steel, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Macmillan, London, 1918
£200.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Food of the Gods
and How it Came to Earth. 1904, a first edition of H G Well's science fiction classic
H G Wells
Macmillan, London, 1904
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Relativity, The Special and The General Theory, A Popular Exposition
The first UK edition of Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein, translated by Robert W Lawson
Methuen, London, 1920
£400.00
Science & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions
Pity for Women
First UK edition of the first to novels of de Montherlant's tetralogy (Les Jeunes Filles and Pitie pour Les Femmes)
Henri de Motherlant
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1937
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mother Goose; The Old Nursery Rhymes
1913, with 13 colour plates by Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann, London, 1913
Sold
Illustrated | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Character in Distress
19 short stories from Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Duckworth & Co, London, 1938
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
My Man Jeeves
2nd ed? c1920—with four early Jeeves and Wooster stories
P G Wodehouse
George Newnes, London, 1920
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Manual of Neo-Scholastic Philosophy
A rare first printing
Charles R Baschab
B Herder Book Co, St Louis & London, 1923
£40.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
Avataras
Four Lectures Delivered at the 24th Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December 1899
Annie Besant
Theosophical Publishing Company, London, 1900
£20.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Egyptian Fairy Tales
with a colour front cover by Alan G MacNaughtan
E A Wallis Budge
Gowans and Gray, London and Glasgow, 1923
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
