Browse by Date—1900–1949
Worthing, A Survey of Times Past and Present
1938, with a 1900s copy of Bacon's map of Worthing and environs
F W H Migeod, editor
The Southern Publishing Co Ltd, Brighton & Worthing, 1938
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
L'Art Mimique
1901, a rare first edition of Charles Aubert's book on mime
Charles Aubert
E Meuriot, Paris, 1901
£40.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Crisis in Physics
Second edition of Christopher Caudwell's analysis
Christopher Caudwell, with an introduction by Professor H Levy
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1949
£25.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences
1942, J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938
J B S Haldane
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942
£35.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Apes of God
1932, Wyndham Lewis's attack on the aesthetic artistic society of the time, in the original dustwrapper
Wyndham Lewis
Grayson & Grayson, London, 1932
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Christ Church, Madras, Parish Magazine 1928
Church notices, short stories, home help, adverts...
Christ Church, Madras
Not stated, Madras (Chennai), 1928
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Kitty Frew
1936, a novel of married life from American author Jane Abbott
Jane Abbott
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1936
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Blood and Iron
1916, Impressions from the Front in France and Flanders, this copy signed by Major A A Macfarlane-Grieve
Wilson McNair
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1916
£20.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Black Beauty
1940, a nice hardback edition in dustwrapper
Anna Sewell
A & C Black, London, 1940
Sold
Childrens | Hard Cover | 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
