Browse by Date—1900–1949

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

Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
Balfour's Romanes Lecture of 1909
Arthur James Balfour
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909
£15.00
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
£10.00
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

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
£20.00
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
£52.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

One Day (Signed copy)
This copy inscribed by Nancy Cunard to Raymond Mortimer, the fifth book published by The Hours Press
Norman Douglas
The Hours Press, Chapelle-Reanville, 1929
Sold
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Association Copy

The Monster of Mu
1945 reissue of Owen Rutter's thrilling mystery
Owen Rutter
Francis James Publishing Co, London, 1945
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

Medical Gymnastics and Massage in General Practice
1926, treatments for all types of conditions
Dr J Arvdeson, translated and edited by Mina L Dobbie
J & A Churchill, London, 1926
£12.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover

Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
Two vols, 1924 & 1921, containing seven plays
George Bernard Shaw
Constable, London, 1924
£12.00
Drama | Hard Cover

The Travels Lesson on the Old Testament
1904—the book to accompany the stereographs
William Byron Forbush
Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1904
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions

Timothy Richard of China
1924, rare first edition of William Soothill biography of the Welsh Baptist missionary to China
William E Soothill, with a foreword by The Right Hon. Sir John N Jordan
Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1924
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Brewing Room Diary & Year Book 1948
Packed with useful information to brewers and an unused diary
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd
White Tomkins & Courage Ltd, London, 1948
£40.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover

Guerre Civile
1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War
J L Bede, and R J F Cook
Macmillan, London, 1938
£30.00
Language | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Story of the British Navy (Signed copy)
Signed by Almeric Paget to Richard Hennessy
E Keble Chatterton
Mills & Boon, London, 1911
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Three books of French poetry by Francis Jammes
La Vierge et les Sonnets, De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir, and Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent...
Francis Jammes
Various, Paris, 1919
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover

Three books by Rene Boylesve
Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade
Rene Boylesve
Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

Ten titles by Andre Maurois
Uniformly bound in red / brown cloth, all early French language editions
Andre Maurois
Various, Paris, 1922
£40.00
Collections | Hard Cover

The Crafty Farmer, A Spanish Folk Tale (Signed copy)
Signed by the illustrator, Gregorio Prieto
Gregorio Prieto, illustrator. Translated and introduced by Henry Thomas
The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938
£60.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Flower Foes
1923, a book of garden pests from the editor of Amateur Gardening
T W Sanders, illustrated in colour by Miss Kate Ashley
W H & L Collingridge, London, 1923
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Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Cosmic Rhythm of Art and Literature
1948, a series of essays on French and English art and culture
Mary P Harris
Frank Cork, Adelaide, 1948
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions