Browse by Date—1900–1949
Mary Poppins
The 1944 reset edition, the book in lovely condition
P L Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard
Peter Davies, London, 1944
Sold
Childrens | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Children of No Man's Land
An early novel from G B Stern
G B Stern
Duckworth & Co, London, 1919
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Isle Raven
A playboy inherits a mysterious Welsh island...
Owen Rhoscomyl, pseud. Arthur Owen Vaughan
Duckworth & Co, London, 1908
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Careers for Women
A rare 1930 first edition from novelist and feminist Leonora Eyles
Leonora Eyles
Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1930
£60.00
Social Sciences | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fads and Feeding
An Edwardian examination of diets and food-fads
C Stanford Read
Methuen, London, 1908
£25.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Camera Fiend
A thriller from E W Hornung
E W Hornung
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1916
£18.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Christmas Formula and other stories (Signed copy)
Signed by Stella Benson, and with a gift inscription from Kay Dick
Stella Benson, frontispiece by Clare Leighton and a foreword by Geoffrey West.
William Jackson (Books), London, 1932
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The House by the River
A thriller from A P Herbert in the original dustwrapper
A P Herbert
Methuen, London, 1949
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Something New in Sandwiches
1933—a whole batch of sandwich recipes
M Redington White
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1933
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
Old Age Pensions; Are They Desirable or Practicable
1903 first edition, rebound in half-leather
Frederick Rogers, and Frederick Millar
Isbister & Company Limited, London, 1903
£25.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Aphorisms on Authors and Their Ways (Signed copy)
Initialled by Augustine Birrell, privately printed, 100 copies only.
Augustine Birrell
Privately printed, 1917
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
Diplomatic Petrel
Thomas Hohler's Memoirs, including the Zimmermann Telegram
Thomas Hohler
John Murray, London, 1942
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Sappho Revocata
Limited edition, a collection of Sappho's poetry in Greek and English
J M Edmonds, with two drawings by Vera Willoughby
Peter Davies, London, 1928
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
Field Service Pocket Book 1932
Signed by member of the RAF in Egypt, and stamped 24th (D.Y.) Armoured Car Company.
War Office
HMSO, London, 1932
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover
Curses, Lucks and Talismans
1938, including the Wardley Skull and the Curse of Grayrigg Hall
J G Lockhart
Geoffrey Bles, London, 1938
£15.00
Paranormal & Supernatural | Hard Cover | First Editions
Vathek, An Arabian Tale
An unusual pocket edition with five coloured plates
William Beckford, illustrated by W B Handforth
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1912
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
The Stormswept Roof of Asia
By Yak, Camel & Sheep Caravan in Tibet, Chinese Turkistan and Over the Kara-Koram
Emil Trinkler, translated from the German by B K Featherstone
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1931
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Observer's Book of Astro-Navigation
Part three; Francis Chichester's book on dead-reckoning
Francis Chichester
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1941
£10.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
1913 two volume edition
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
J M Dent, London, 1913
£14.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion
Fine soft red leather, in excellent condition.
Jane Austen
Thomas Nelson, London, 1910
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
47 tales from Edgar Allan Poe, title page design by Herbert Cole
Edgar Allan Poe, title page design by Herbert Cole, frontispiece portrait by Edmund J Sullivan.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, London, 1910
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Flower Beneath the Foot
Ronald Firbank's flamboyant court satire
Ronald Firbank, with a decoration by C R W Nevinson, and portraits by Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis
Grant Richards, London, 1923
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
An early collection of Aldous Huxley's poetry
Aldous Huxley
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1918
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Riddle of the Ravens
A case for Inspector Slade of Department X2
Leonard R Gribble
George G. Harrap, London, 1937
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Hemlock for Eight, a Radio Play (Signed copy)
Signed by Clifford Bax to radio pioneer Mary Hope Allen
Clifford Bax, and Leon M Lion
Frederick Muller, London, 1946
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
