Browse by Date—1900–1949
Leaves of Grass
An attractive copy of the Centenary Edition (1923)
Walt Whitman, issued under the Editorial Supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Burke, Thomas B Harned, and Horace L Traubel
D Appleton, New York, 1923
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Picturesque Sicily
1902, an illustrated tour of Sicily, with Palermo, Syracuse, Segesta etc
William Agnew Paton
Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1902
£25.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
The Year of Stalingrad
1946, An Historical Record and a Study of Russian Mentality, Methods and Policies
Alexander Werth
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946
£12.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners
A complete year of three-course meals (1915)
Mrs Elizabeth O Hiller
The N K Fairbank Company, New York, 1915
£12.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
Shopping in Oxford (Signed copy)
1941, signed three times by John Masefield
John Masefield
William Heinemann, London, 1941
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Naples Riviera (Signed copy)
Signed by Herbert M Vaughan, and with a lengthy inscription from the author
Herbert M Vaughan, illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen
Methuen, London, 1925
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
The Craft of the Lead Pencil
Mervyn Peake's slim treatise on drawing
Mervyn Peake
Allan Wingate, London, 1946
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Midsummer Memory
1910, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
Photograph album, with original images of the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert
and with candid shots of King Edward VII, and the acters of the 1900 Oberammergau Passion Play
John and Maud Le Couteur
Not Published, 1901
Sold
Photography | Hard Cover
The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1909
A comprehensive round-up of America in 1909—politics, sports, the arts etc
Joseph Pulitzer, introduction
The Press Publishing Co, New York, 1908
£15.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Kent
1907, with 73 colour plates by W Biscombe Gardner
W Teignmouth Shore, paintings by W Biscombe Gardner
A & C Black, London, 1907
£15.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions
Three Penny Dreadful-style stories, c1918
Found Wanting, An Aristocratic Beggar, and In Other Lands
Grace Pettman. Lucy Laing and Sydney Watson
W Nicholson & Sons, London, 1918
£20.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Spanish People's Fight for Liberty
1937, featuring uncredited images by Robert Capa from the Spanish Civil War
A Ramos Oliveira, editor, with various photographers including Robert Capa
The Press Department of the Spanish Embassy, London, 1937
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Photography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Leather Craft, Pewter Craft, and Stencil Craft
Three 1920s guides to the handicrafts
F J Glass
University of London Press, London, 1927
£20.00
Crafts | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Man Takes a Wife
A Study of Man's Problems in and through Marriage
Ira S Wile
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938
£20.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Tour Through England and Wales
Defoe's tour, Everyman's Library Nos 820 & 821 (1928)
Daniel Defoe, introduction by G D H Cole
J M Dent, London, 1928
£12.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
The Princess Galva, A Romance
1926, in the original dustwrapper
David Whitelaw
Stanley Paul, London, 1926
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Little Girl's Sweet Book
Recipes for sweet delights and how to run a sweet stall...
Flora Klickmann, editor
Office of "The Girl's Own Paper", London, 1924
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
Types and Scenes of Egypt, Detachable Phototype Post Cards
c1910/1920, 21 of 24 sepia postcards in a booklet
Not stated
B Livadas & Couticos, Cairo, 1920
£20.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover
The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding, East Coker
Three of T S Eliot's Four Quartets, one first printing, two later impressions
T S Eliot
Faber & Faber, London, 1941
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1911, containing eleven short stories including Silver Blaze
Arthur Conan Doyle, with frontispiece by Sidney Paget
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Seven Tales and Alexander
1929, a first edition of an early H E Bates collection
H E Bates
The Scholartis Press, London, 1929
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Prose Poems from Les Illuminations of Arthur Rimbaud
1932, the first printing of Helen Rootham's translation, and with the bookplate of F E Dinshaw
Arthur Rimbaud, put into English by Helen Rootham, with an introductory essay by Edith Sitwell
Faber & Faber, London, 1932
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Quintessence of Ibsenism. Now Completed to the Death of Ibsen
1913, first edition, stamped 'Presentation Copy' by the publisher
George Bernard Shaw
Constable, London, 1913
£12.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
In Spring (Signed copy)
Limited edition signed by Edith Sitwell and Edward Carrick (Craig)
Edith Sitwell, illustrated by Edward Carrick
Privately printed for Terence Fytton Armstrong, London, 1931
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
