Browse by Date—1900–1949
The Long Whip
The Story of a Great Husky (in Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition)
Jane Brevoort Walden, and Stuart D L Paine
Chapman & Hall, London, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Bohemian—American Cook Book
1925, Marie Rosicky's collection of recipes
Marie Rosicky
The National Printing Co, Omaha, Nebraska, 1925
£30.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover
An Introduction to Dutch Art
This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
The Sun Queen & People of the Twilight
Two weird fiction first editions from H Kaner
Hyman Kaner, dustwrapper design by H W Perl
The Kaner Publishing Company, Llandudno, 1946
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay
J Sheridan Le Fanu's ghost story, including Madam Crowl's Ghost
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, introduction by Herbert Van Thal, frontispiece and wrapper by Felix Kelly
Home and Van Thal Ltd, London, 1947
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Marriage of Anne
1927, a Jazz Age romance from Concordia Merrel
Concordia Merrel, dustwrapper design by John Drew
George H Doran, New York, 1927
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Scots Kitchen
1931 (seventh impression); Its Traditions and Lore with Old-Time Recipes
F Marian McNeill
Blackie & Son, London & Glasgow, 1931
On Hold
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
A Rambler's Recollections & Reflections (Signed copy)
Signed by Alfred Capper, a magician and drawing-room entertainer
Alfred Capper
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915
£50.00
Magic | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Julia, Daughter of Claudius
1927, Gertrude Trevelyan's first work and winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry
Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Arthur Henderson, Labour Home Secretary 1924, autographed letter
An early member of the Labour Party and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Arthur Henderson
Not Published, London, 1924
£50.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Worzel Gummidge Again
1937, first edition of the second Worzel adventure
Barbara Euphan Todd, illustrated by Elizabeth Alldridge
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1937
£20.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
1911, the first UK edition of Daniel Halevy's biographical study
Daniel Halevy, translated by J M Hone, with an introduction by T M Kettle, MP
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1911
£40.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
Cook Book Note Book
1946, illustrated by Edward Bawden
Magda Joicey, with notes by Angela Carter, with drawings by Edward Bawden
John Westhouse, London, 1946
£20.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
1944, 1st US edition
Joseph Campbell, and Henry Morton Robinson
Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1944
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Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
England, their England
1935, a fairly early printing of A G Macdonell's satire in the original wrapper
A G Macdonell
Macmillan, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Poems of The Land Army
1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army
Vita Sackville-West, (foreword)
The Land Girl, London, 1945
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Sailing Directions for Newfoundland
1942, including the Coast of Labrador from Long Point to St Lewis Sound
Hydrographic Office
US Government Printing Office, Washington, 1942
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
Vain Glory (Signed copy)
This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.
Guy Chapman, editor
Cassell, London, 1937
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
D-ANOY bezwingt den Pamir
An account of a pioneering German flight in 1937, with contemporary ephemera
Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz
Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, 1937
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Electricalities
A superb cover on this guide to car electrics, c1935, by Joseph Lucas Ltd
Joseph Lucas Ltd
Joseph Lucas Ltd, Birmingham, 1935
£30.00
Transport | Soft Cover
Letters from India (Signed copy)
Alun Lewis's letters from active service, signed twice by his wife, Gweno Lewis
Alun Lewis, with a note by Mrs Alun Lewis, and a Preface by A L Rowse
Penmark Press, Cardiff, 1946
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Association Copy
A Dream Observed and Other Poems (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu
Anne Ridler
Poetry London, London, 1941
£80.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
The Story of Joan of Arc
1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel
Pamela Glenconner
The Chiswick Press, London, 1915
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Manual on the Conservation and Restoration of Paintings
A 1940 study all aspects of storing, exhibiting and repairing paintings
Euripide Foundoukidis, foreword.
International Institute Of Intellectual Co-operati, Paris, 1940
£30.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
