Browse by Date—1900–1949
Psmith Journalist
1915 first edition, in the very rare original dustwrapper
P G Wodehouse, with twelve full-page illustrations from drawings by T M R Whitwell
A & C Black, London, 1915
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Original Architectural Drawing for an Author's Retreat
1946, a quiet country cottage with large writing room
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1946
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original Architectural Drawing for a Proposed Youth Hostel in the Lake District
1946, with colour perspective, elevations, and floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1946
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original Architectural Drawing for a Small Dance Hall
1947, with floorplan and two dancers in evening wear
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original architect's drawing for a staircase for a hall
1946, watercolour (with maid), and technical plan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£30.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original architect's drawing for a stone carver's workshop in the Cotswolds
1947, with watercolour image and floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original architect's drawing of entrance gates to a public park
1946, with watercolour image and birds-eye plan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Original architect's drawing for the design of a Public Library
1947, by a student architect, with colour elevations and a floorplan
G Reed
Not Published, Essex, 1947
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | Handwritten
Peter Pan's Play-Book
[1929], a collection of 24 images on card by Flora White
J M Barrie, illustrated by Flora White
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929
£30.00
Illustrated | Hard Cover | First Editions
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1902, illustrations by Peter Newell, and page decorations by Robert Murray Wright
Lewis Carroll, with an introduction by E S Martin, illustrated by Peter Newell and page decorations by Robert Murray Wright
Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1902
£30.00
Lewis Carroll | Hard Cover | First thus
This Smoking World
1928, A history of smoking, and why people smoke etc etc
A E Hamilton, introductory essay by Sir Montague Sherman
Methuen, London, 1928
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Metro-Land 1931 Edition
A guide to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, served by the Metropolitan Railway
Metropolitan Railway
Metropolitan Railway, London, 1931
£25.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover
Fountains in the Sand
1912, first edition of Norman Douglas's travels among the oases of Tunisia
Norman Douglas
Martin Secker, London, 1912
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Barrack Room Ballads
with handwritten poem "Song of the Chaklala Chindits" by R T D Smith (No 3 Parachute Training School, Rawalpindi)
Rudyard Kipling
Methuen, London, 1946
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
The Cattle King
1936, Ion L Idriess's tribute to Sir Sidney Kidman
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1936
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Odd—But Even So
15 Queer and Quaint stories from P C Wren
P C Wren
John Murray, London, 1942
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Over the Range (Signed copy)
Signed by Ion L Idriess, 'Sunshine and Shadows in the Kimberleys'
Ion L Idriess
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper
Biggles Flies South
The first printing of 1938, in the original dustwrapper
Captain W E Johns, illustrated by Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle
Oxford University Press, London, 1938
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Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Garrick Club
1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies
C K Adams, compiler
The Garrick Club, London, 1936
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Nicholas Copernicus 1543–1943
Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand
Stephen P Mizwa
The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Slipcase
G F Watts
from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge
W Loftus Hare
T C & E C Jack, London, 1910
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Burne-Jones
from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge
Alfred Lys Baldry
T C & E C Jack, London, 1909
£15.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Artists of the 1890's
1928, this copy from the library of architect of Roderick Gradidge
John Rothenstein
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1928
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Semi-Detached House & The Semi-Detached Couple
1928, Emily Eden's two novels
Emily Eden, with introductions by Anthony Eden and John Gore
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Dare to be Wise (Signed copy)
Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh
Violet Vanbrugh
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
