Browse by Date—1900–1949
Garnett Bell, Detective
Golden Age crime in a rare dustwrapper, c1930
Cecil H Bullivant
Wright & Brown, London, 1930
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Swimming and Swimming Strokes
With a chapter by Cecil Healy, Australian Olympic swimmer killed in the Great War
F Baxter, compiler
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, London, 1921
£10.00
Sports | Soft Cover | First Editions
The King of the Cats
A delightful Irish fantasy for children
Eileen O'Faolain, illustrated by Nano Reid
The Talbot Press Ltd, Dublin, 1942
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt
with 18 colour plates by Winifred Brunton, a lovely copy
Winifred Brunton, illustrator, History by Eminent Egyptologists, and foreword by Professor J H Breasted
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926
£120.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Edmund Gosse; Some Memories (Signed copy)
Signed by William Bellows
William Bellows
R Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1929
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Four Winds of Love
All six volumes of Compton Mackenzies' hexalogy
Compton Mackenzie
Rich & Cowan and Chatto & Windus, London, 1937
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Two Stories by Ernest Dowson
The Eyes of Pride and Countess Marie of the Angels, published in The Bibelot
Ernest Dowson
Thomas B Mosher, Portland, Maine, 1912
£15.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
Songs from the Downs and Dunes (Signed copy)
Signed by the author to Edith Nesbit, author of The Railway Children
Habberton Lulham
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1908
Sold
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
A History of Socialism
Signed by Scottish historian Peter Hume Brown
Thomas Kirkup
A & C Black, London, 1906
£15.00
Politics & Economics | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
Richard Jefferies, His Life and Work
Edward Thomas' study, an early edition
Edward Thomas
Hutchinson, London, 1911
£10.00
Edward Thomas | Hard Cover
The Guinea Pig
The book of the 1948 Boulting Brothers film
Arnold Meredith
World Film Publications, London, 1948
£10.00
Fiction | Soft Cover | First Editions
Spring Harvest No 1, April 1946
The magazine of the Oxford University Author-Critic Club
Not stated
Oxford University Author-Critic Club, Oxford, 1946
£30.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Reason in Architecture
Eight lectures given at the Royal Academy in 1906
T G Jackson
John Murray, London, 1906
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1906, in an unusual marbled binding
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, introduction by Joseph Knight
Henry Frowde, London, 1906
Sold
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Richard Jefferies
First Aldine edition of 1938, quarter bound in red leather
Edward Thomas
J M Dent, London, 1938
£40.00
Edward Thomas | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Key of Heaven
Catholic prayerbook, with delightful angel and chalice illustrated binding
Not stated
Francis Tucker, Liverpool, 1930
£30.00
Religions | Hard Cover
Run!
A classic Patricia Wentworth crime thriller
Patricia Wentworth
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1938
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Syphilis, Its Diagnosis and Treatment
A rare first edition, owned by a doctor in West Africa in 1914
F J Lambkin, with a preface by Sir Frederick Treves
Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, London, 1910
£50.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | First Editions
Happy England
A fine Riviere crushed morocco and vellum binding, a beautiful copy
Helen Allingham, text by Marcus B Huish
A & C Black, London, 1904
£250.00
Art | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
British North Borneo
Owen Rutter's study of the Island and its people
Owen Rutter
Constable, London, 1922
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
Harmony, Diatonic and Chromatic (Signed copy)
Signed by author Charles Vincent, an English composer and organist
Charles Vincent
Charles Vincent, London, 1900
£25.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Signed copies)
Signed by Margot Asquith, rebound in fine crushed morocco by Bumpus of London
Margot Asquith
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1921
£120.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Deutsche Fibel (Signed copy)
Signed by Otto Koischwitz, an American Nazi propagandist and lover of Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally)
Otto Koischwitz
F S Crofts, New York, 1932
£150.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Young Men in Spats
First edition, and first appearance of Uncle Fred.
P G Wodehouse
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Lost Cabin Mine
The author's first novel, this copy owned by a member of the Eaton Bray Royal Defence Corps in 1916.
Frederick Niven
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1908
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
