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The Dark Island

1934, a Hogarth Press first edition of Vita Sackville-West's novel
Vita Sackville-West, with map drawn by Ben Nicolson
The Hogarth Press, London, 1934
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology

1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Photograph album of Russian tanks made in Smethwick, September 1941

Valentine Mk2 tanks being unveiled in front of the Russian ambassador, Ivan Maisky, and Harold Macmillan
Not stated
Not stated, Smethwick, 1941
£150.00
Military & War | Hard Cover

Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor

C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions

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

An Introduction to Dutch Art

This copy belonged to artist and illustrator Brian Robb
R H Wilenski
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929
£30.00
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
£40.00
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

Worzel Gummidge Again

1937, first edition of the second Worzel adventure
Barbara Euphan Todd, illustrated by Elizabeth Alldridge
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1937
£15.00
Childrens | 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

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

Vain Glory (Signed copy)

This copy signed by British bookseller Ben Weinreb. An anthology of Great War writing.
Guy Chapman, editor
Cassell, London, 1937
£35.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

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

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
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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

Squad

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
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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
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Music | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten

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