Browse by Date—1900–1949

This Jewel Remains
A photographic record of the Exeter Baedeker raid of May 1942
M C B Hoare, compiler
The Western Times Co, Exeter, 1947
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions

Everybody's Book of Fate and Fortune
Astrology, astro-suggestion, phrenology, graphology, numerology, chirognomy etc
Edward Lyndoe
Odhams Press, London, 1935
£30.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions

All Quiet on the Western Front
1929, the third impression
Erich Maria Remarque, translated from the German by A W Wheen
G P Putnam's Sons, London, 1929
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

A Passage to India
1925, the sixth impression
E M Forster
Edward Arnold, London, 1925
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

The Bond
Neith Boyce's 1908 novel of open marriage
Neith Boyce
Duckworth & Co, London, 1908
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Plays of Gods and Men
A collection of four of Lord Dunsany's plays
Lord Dunsany
The Talbot Press Ltd, Dublin, 1918
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Drama | Hard Cover

The Unknown Murderer
Reik criminological and psychological study of murder and its investigation
Theodor Reik, translated from the German by Dr Katherine Jones
The Hogarth Press, London, 1936
£20.00
Psychology | Hard Cover | First Editions

General Headquarters 1914–1916 and its Critical Decisions
This copy signed by WW1 RAF flying ace Ira Jones
Erich von Falkenhayn
Hutchinson, London, 1919
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy

A Romany Life
The autobiography of Gypsy Petulengro
Gypsy Petulengro
Methuen, London, 1935
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

The War Speeches of William Pitt
from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
R Coupland
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1915
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association Vol XXVII
Including C S Lewis. This copy belonged to historian Norman Scarfe
C S Lewis, et al, collected by Nowell Charles Smith
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1942
£25.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

A Catalogue of Star Chamber Proceedings Relating to Wales
No 1 in the History and Law series from the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales
Ifan Ab Owen Edwards, compiler
University Press, Cardiff, 1929
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Death to the French
An early C S Forster Peninsular War adventure
C S Forester
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1932
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

New Road 1943
including George Orwell, Ithell Colquhoun, John Minton, and many more
Alex Comfort, and John Bayliss (editors)
The Grey Walls Press, London, 1943
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Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions

Wonderful Mrs Marriott
A novel from Josephine Bell
Josephine Bell
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1948
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Mother Knows Best and other stories
1927, first UK edition in the original wrapper
Edna Ferber
William Heinemann, London, 1927
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Clorinda (Two-step)
A 1912 printing with wonderful cover art
Montague Ring, (pseud. Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge). Cover art by W George
J B Cramer & Co Ltd, London, 1912
£40.00
Music | Soft Cover

Lions and Shadows
An Education in the Twenties
Christopher Isherwood
The Hogarth Press, London, 1938
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1923, in a rare original dustwrapper
Arthur Conan Doyle
John Murray, London, 1923
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

Handbook of the West African Gold Mines
complete with map and supplement
H Taylor, supplement by I A Howie
Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, London, 1946
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions

Good-Bye to All That
1929 fifth impression of Robert Graves' autobiography
Robert Graves
Jonathan Cape, London, 1929
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover

Les Chants du Bivouac
1914, a rare collection of soldier songs from the Great War
Theodore Botrel, preface by Maurice Barres, illustrated by Carlegle, and with a portrait of the author by Paul Jobert
Payot et Cie, Paris, 1914
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions

Bhartrihari Says (Signed copy)
A rare first edition, signed by illustrator Zabelle C Boyajian
Dixon Scott, illustrated by Zabelle C Boyajian
Frederick Muller, London, 1940
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Poems & 1914 and other poems
Rupert Brooke's poetry, early printings in a fine leather binding by Bumpus
Rupert Brooke
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1916
£60.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound

Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
c1920s, with Kate Greenaway's colour illustrations
Kate Greenaway
Frederick Warne, London, 1920
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover