Browse by Date—1900–1949
Numbers and Joshua & Judges
Two Old Testament volumes from The Temple Bible
G Buchanan Gray, and A R S Kennedy (editors)
J M Dent, London, 1902
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions
Fifth Column
A rare 1940 work from John Langdon-Davies warning against the enemy at home.
John Langdon-Davies
John Murray, London, 1940
£25.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | First Editions
Missal Romain
French prayer book, c1907, bound in ivorine with inlaid metal design
Not stated
Marc Barbou, Limoges, 1907
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
What I Believe (My Religion)
Tolstoy's personal interpretation of Christian theology.
Leo Tolstoy
The Free Age Press, Christchurch, 1902
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First thus
Spitfires over Malta
First edition, illustrated by Stuart Tresilian
Rowland Walker, illustrated by Stuart Tresilian
A & C Black, London, 1944
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Clarence Below the Basement
A rare light-hearted fantasy from 1948
Uncle Gordon
Vawser & Wiles, London, 1948
£22.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The House of Seven Gables
Illustrated by Valenti Angelo
Nathaniel Hawthorne, with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and illustrated in colour by Valenti Angelo
The Heritage Press, New York, 1935
£14.00
Heritage Press | Hard Cover | First thus
Moll Flanders
with drawings by Reginald Marsh
Daniel Defoe, illustrated by Reginald Marsh
The Heritage Press, New York, 1942
£10.00
Heritage Press | Hard Cover | First thus
Thoughts from the Writings of R W Barbour
Signed by his son, the Scottish philosopher & author, G F Barbour
R W Barbour
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1925
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Signed Copies
The School for Dictators
Ignazio Silone's political satire
Ignazio Silone, translated from the Italian by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher
Jonathan Cape, London, 1939
£24.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Fontamara
A classic of twentieth century Italian literature
Ignazio Silone, translated from the Italian by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher
Methuen, London, 1938
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
In the Great God's Hair
Half-leather binding by Zaehnsdorf
F W Bain
James Parker & Co, London, 1905
£30.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Inside U.S.A. (Signed copy)
Signed by John Gunther and from the library of Fleur Cowles
John Gunther
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1947
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First thus
Droll Stories
Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff
Honore de Balzac, translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clerq and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff
The Heritage Press, New York, 1939
£15.00
Heritage Press | Hard Cover | First thus
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Illustrated by Honore Guilbeau
James Justinian Morier, with a preface by Sir Walter Scott and illustrated by Honore Guilbeau
The Heritage Press, New York, 1947
£15.00
Heritage Press | Hard Cover | First thus
The Gwythen Clay Mystery
A classic 1940s childrens' thriller
Michael Poole, illustrated by Gilbert Dunlop
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
£10.00
Childrens | Soft Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Archaeologia; Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
Three offprints in one: The Cross of Lothair, A Triptych at the Abbey of Stavelot, and The Abbey of Saint-Denis
Various
The Society of Antiquaries, London, 1915
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The War Inevitable
A 1908 addition to the library of Invasion Literature
Alan H Burgoyne
Francis Griffiths, London, 1908
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Crescent and the Cross
Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel—a reprint of Warbuton's 1844 Middle East travel classic
Eliot Warburton
Maclaren & Company, London, 1910
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Dunkirk Sportsmen
Memories of the sportsmen in the forces at Dunkirk and more...
Alec Adrian
Arthur H Stockwell, Ilfracombe, 1943
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The "Lettre de Cachet"
Short stories from Catherine Grace F Gore, one of the silver fork authors
C.H., pseud Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Digby, Long & Co, London, 1900
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
The Silence of Colonel Bramble
Andre Maurois' fictional account of his WW1 service
Andre Maurois
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1930
£10.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
The Great Tradition
1948; F R Leavis' great work of literary criticism
F R Leavis
Chatto & Windus, London, 1948
£20.00
Literary Criticism | Hard Cover | First Editions
King of Asine and other poems
George Seferis' first UK published book of poems
George Seferis, translated from the Greek by Bernard Spencer, Nanos Valaoritis and Lawrence Durrell, introduction by Rex Warner
John Lehmann, London, 1948
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Indiscretions of Archie
in an earlier state dustwrapper
P G Wodehouse
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1940
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
