Browse by Date—1900–1949
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1928, first US edition, a novel of the American infantry in the Great War
James B Wharton
Coward-McCann, New York, 1928
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Poems for France (Signed copy)
Edited by Nancy Cunard and signed by Joyce Rowe, one of the contributors.
Nancy Cunard
La France Libre, London, 1944
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Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Poetry London Volume 2, Number 9 (1943)
with three superb original lithographs by Graham Sutherland
Tambimuttu, editor
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£240.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Charles Ancliffe (composer) signed musical annotation
With four handwritten bars of Nights of Gladness, dated 1920
Charles Ancliffe
Not Published, 1920
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Frederick Rosse (composer) signed musical notation
Dated 1909, referencing Maxine Elliott's The Conquest
Frederick Rosse
Not Published, London, 1909
£40.00
Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
The Old Contemptibles, Mons to Ypres 1914 (Signed copy)
Signed by Beatrix Brice
Beatrix Brice
Old Contemptibles Association, London, 1939
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Time and Time Again, Essays on Various Subjects
E M Rowell's 1941 collection of essays, signed from the library of Morton N Cohen
E M Rowell
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1941
£100.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Alcools
Apollinaire's collection of poetry from 1898–1913
Guillaume Apollinaire
Librairie Gallimard / NRF, Paris, 1946
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover
The Technique and Spirit of Fugue
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
George Oldroyd
Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1949
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Unfigured Harmony
Signed by Alexander Kelly, pianist and piano teacher
Percy C Buck
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1946
£12.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | Association Copy
Eighteen Months in the War Zone (Signed copy)
Signed by Kate John Finzi, a Great War nurse and sister of composer Gerald Finzi
Kate John Finzi, with an introduction by Major-General Sir Alfred Turner
Cassell, London, 1916
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Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Queen Elizabeth
1934, James Lees-Milne's signed copy
J E Neale, with ownership signature and bookplate of James Lees-Milne
Jonathan Cape, London, 1934
£50.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
Together (Signed copy)
Signed by Norman Douglas, his voyage around the villages of the Tyrol in Austria
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1923
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
Balfour's Romanes Lecture of 1909
Arthur James Balfour
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909
£20.00
Essays | Soft Cover | First Editions
Practical Animal Husbandry (Signed copy)
Signed by one of the authors, E D S Robertson
William C Miller, and E D S Robertson
Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1934
£12.00
Animals & Pets | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Canti di Soldati
Piero Jahier's collection of Italian Great War songs
Piero Jahier, harmonised by Vittorio Gui
Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milano, 1923
£30.00
Music | Soft Cover
They Went
Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1920
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Adventure in Algeria (Signed copy)
Signed by Brian Stuart, an account of his time in the French Foreign Legion and trek across the Sahara
Brian Stuart
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£70.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Cockney Past and Present
A Short History of the London Dialect (1938)
William Matthews
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1938
£15.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Pocket leather edition, illustrated by Herbert Cole
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Herbert Cole
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1907
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Norman Douglas
Richard MacGillivary's biography, limited edition published by Giuseppe Orioli
Richard MacGillivray, pseud. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
G Orioli, Florence, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Our Lady of the Pillar
Eca de Queiroz's novel with fantastical elements
Eca de Queiroz, done into English by Edgar Prestage
Constable, London, 1906
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Duenna
Signed by Nigel Playfair, this edition issued for his production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with an introduction by Nigel Playfair, and illustrations by George Sheringham
Constable, London, 1925
£40.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Riallaro, The Archipelago of Exiles
1901, a rare first edition of a lost race satirical novel
Godfrey Sweven, (pseud. John MacMillan Brown)
G P Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1901
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Down the River (Signed copy)
Signed by H E Bates, the first edition of 1937
H E Bates, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
Victor Gollancz, London, 1937
£60.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
