Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Gothic North, a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art, and Thought
Complete in three volumes: The Visit of the Gypsies, These Sad Ruins and The Fair-Haired Victory
Sacheverell Sitwell
Duckworth & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
John Knox
Edwin Muir's portrait of the Calvinist
Edwin Muir
Jonathan Cape, London, 1929
£10.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Escape to Adventure
Susan Woolfitt's childrens' adventure on the canals of England
Susan Woolfitt, illustrated by Rosemary Hay
Ernest Benn, London, 1948
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe
with four colour plates
Donald A Mackenzie, illustrated by John Duncan
The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1905
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Valley of Fear
A late Sherlock Holmes long story
Arthur Conan Doyle
John Murray, London, 1926
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Rex Whistler 1936 GPO telegram
In the original gold envelope
Rex Whistler
GPO, London, 1936
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Ephemera | Soft Cover | First Editions
Law of Burials
1902; including cremations, burial, unidentified bodies...
James Brooke Little
Shaw and Sons, London, 1902
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover
Kidnapped
A nice pocket edition of RLS' classic
Robert Louis Stevenson
Cassell, London, 1903
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist
Memoirs of the American Revolutionary War
Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, edited by Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton
Bankside Press, New York & London, 1901
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Thus Sprake Zarathustra
The first Everyman edition of Nietzsche's philosophical novel
Friedrich W Nietzsche, translated by A Tille and Revised by M M Bozman. Introduction by Ernest Rhys.
J M Dent, London, 1933
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First thus
Tales of Old Japan
including fairy tales, legends and the Forty-Seven Ronin
Lord Redesdale, with illustrations drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists
Macmillan, London, 1919
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover
The Rational Almanac
Moses Cotsworth's workings on the International Fixed Calendar
Moses Bruine Cotsworth
Cotsworth, Acomb, York, 1905
£50.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
All About Leaves
A nicely bound study of the leaf
Francis George Heath, illustrated by Miss M Schroedter
Williams and Norgate, London, 1914
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Selected Essays
This copy belonged to and signed by South African novelist Dan Jacobson
T S Eliot
Faber & Faber, London, 1948
£12.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Association Copy
A Mine of Serpents
Volume 2 in Jocelyn Brooke's Orchid Trilogy
Jocelyn Brooke
The Bodley Head, London, 1949
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Military Orchid
The first volume of Jocelyn Brooke's Orchid Trilogy
Jocelyn Brooke, with decorations by Stephen Bone
The Bodley Head, London, 1948
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pigeon Post
1936, second impression of the sixth book in the Swallows and Amazons series
Arthur Ransome
Jonathan Cape, London, 1936
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
"Antigua, Penny, Puce"
Robert Graves' 1936 novel, rebound in attractive half-leather
Robert Graves
The Seizin Press, Deya, Majorca, 1936
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Euripides and his Age
Signed by Welsh nationalist politician and judge, John Alun Pugh
Gilbert Murray
Williams and Norgate, London, 1912
£20.00
Classics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
The Charm of Birds
1927, rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran Ltd.
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, woodcuts by Robert Gibbings
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1927
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales
A Handbook of Inland Navigation for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders, and Others; Compiled, after a Personal Survey of the Whole of the Waterways
Henry Rodolph De Salis
Henry Blacklock, London, 1918
£35.00
Transport | Hard Cover
A Young Borderer
Great War memoir of Alexander Herries-Young, died on the Somme in 1916
David Frew
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1928
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Muirkirk in Bygone Days
A brief history of the Scottish village in East Ayrshire
J G A Baird
W S Smith, Muirkirk, 1910
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Adventures of Seumas Beg (Signed copy)
with James Stephens' photo and autograph
James Stephens
Macmillan, London, 1916
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Basement Room and Other Stories
1935, first printing and the basis of The Fallen Idol
Graham Greene
The Cresset Press, London, 1935
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
