Browse by Date—1900–1949
Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas Discussed
1938, a solid copy of this seminal work of music criticism
Eric Blom
J M Dent, London, 1938
£15.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores (Signed copy)
Signed by the author, Joseph Sinel, to entomologist K G Blair
Joseph Sinel
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1906
£40.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Windlestraw (Signed copy)
Signed by Pamela Tennant, A Book of Verse with Legends in Rhyme of the Plants and Animals
Pamela Tennant
The Chiswick Press, London, 1905
On Hold
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Stage Cyclopaedia—A Bibliography of Plays
1909, this copy signed by Montague Berryman, a barrister of 12 King's Bench Walk
Reginald Clarence, compiler
The Stage, London, 1909
£12.00
Film & Theatre | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The House of God (Signed copy)
Signed by Ernest H Short, a history of religious architecture and symbolism
Ernest H Short
Macmillan, New York, 1926
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Mr Fortune's Maggot (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by E M Forster
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books, London, 1948
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Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus
Memoirs of Edward, Earl of Sandwich 1839–1916
1919, first edition of the peers memoirs
Mrs Steuart Erskine
John Murray, London, 1919
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
How the Worcesters Saved the Day, Gheluvelt, 31 October 1914
1915, a rare account from the First Battle of Ypres
Not stated
Worcestershire County Council, Worcester, 1915
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions
To-morrow for Apricots
c1930, an early Ursula Bloom title in original wrapper
Ursula Bloom
Hutchinson, London, 1930
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
On Freedom
1911, politician and poet Godfrey Locker Lampson's study of freedom
Godfrey Locker Lampson
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1911
£20.00
Philosophy | Hard Cover | First Editions
Touring in 1600
A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education
E S Bates
Constable, London, 1911
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
No Snow in Latching
1949, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels
Michael Home, pseud. Christopher Bush
Methuen, London, 1949
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pigeon Hoo
A novel of a young couple moving to a farmhouse in Tenterden in the years after the Great War
Franklin Lushington, dustwrapper by R Hartman
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
A Country Garden
1936, with glorious wood engravings by John Farleigh
Ethel Armitage, engraved by John Farleigh
Country Life, London, 1936
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Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
West African Folk Tales
1917, many featuring Anansi, and illustrated by Cecilia Sinclair
William H Barker, and Cecilia Sinclair
George G. Harrap, London, 1917
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ancient Order of Druids Choruses
A collection of Initiation Choruses from the most senior druidic order
Ancient Order of Druids
Ancient Order of Druids, London, 1920
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Ephemera | Hard Cover
Proceedings of the Synod of the Presyterian Church of England 1906–1920
A record of meetings and rules etc
Samuel William Carruthers
Presbyterian Church of England, London, 1923
£15.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Oils, Pigments, Paints & Varnishes etc
1922, Rupert Truelove's treatise on protective and decorative coatings
Rupert H Truelove
Isaac Pitman, London, 1922
£30.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions
High Wycombe Furniture
Lawrence Weaver's treatise on Buckingham furniture
Lawrence Weaver
The Fanfare Press, London, 1929
£20.00
Crafts | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Real "Lady of the Camellias"
and Other Women of Quality (1927)
Charles A Dolph
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1927
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Medical Directory 1915
with thousands of entries for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
Not stated
J & A Churchill, London, 1915
£35.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
The Milk in the Cocoanut
1933, a work of speculative fiction by W Barnard Faraday
W Barnard Faraday, as W Bernard Faraday to the spine
Denis Archer, London, 1933
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
