Browse by Date—1900–1949
Plan 3, Architectural Students Association Journal 1948
including writing on the MARS group
A S Hunt, et al, editors, cover design by Ian Baker.
Arch. S. A. Journal Committee, London, 1948
£25.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
New Direction, Number Seven, 1942
including Ford Madox Ford and Franz Kafka
Various, including Franz Kafka, Montagu O'Reilly, John Russell McCarthy etc
New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1942
£20.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions
Turning Night into Day
A history of lighting, illustrated by Russian artist Nikolay Lapshin
M Ilin, illustrated by N Lapshin, translated by Beatrice Kincaid
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1937
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
Clumsy Footprints
An Astronomical Thesis from the Armchair (Nairobi, 1942)
H K Binks
The East African Standard Ltd, Nairobi, 1942
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage
with The Confession of the New Married Couple, attributed to Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn, attributed, with an introduction by John Harvey
The Navarre Society, London, 1922
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus
Tales from the Old French
Lays, fables etc, including Arthurian legend and mythology
Isabel Butler, translator
Constable, London, 1910
£20.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
William Morris
An early biography by Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Macmillan, London, 1908
£12.00
William Morris | Hard Cover | First Editions
In the Gunroom
A classic book on the use and maintenance of shot guns and rifles
Major Gerald Burrard
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1930
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Arcana of Spiritualism
A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy (1921, full leather binding)
Hudson Tuttle
The Two Worlds Publishing Co Ltd, Manchester, 1921
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Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Elephant is White
1939, first UK printing of Brahms and Simon's comedy novel
Caryl Brahms, and S J Simon
Michael Joseph, London, 1939
On Hold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Ordinary Families
E Arnot Robertson's novel of a Suffolk family in the early 20th century
E Arnot Robertson
Jonathan Cape, London, 1933
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Mr Finchley Discovers his England
1934, Victor Canning's picaresque novel
Victor Canning
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1934
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Christmas Holiday
1939, first edition of Somerset Maugham's novel
W Somerset Maugham
William Heinemann, London, 1939
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Up at the Villa
First printing of Somerset Maugham's 1941 novel
W Somerset Maugham
William Heinemann, London, 1941
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Head Girl of the Chalet School
1936 edition of the fourth Chalet School story
Elinor M Brent-Dyer, frontispiece by Nina K Brisley
W & R Chambers, London, 1936
£25.00
Childrens | Hard Cover
The Buildings Erected at Port Sunlight and Thornton Hough
Paper Read by W H Lever at a Meeting of The Architectural Association, London, March 21st, 1902
W H Lever
Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight, 1902
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Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Elements of Astronomy
A rare first edition of D N Mallik's astronomical book
Devendra Nath Mallik
University Press, Cambridge, 1921
£20.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | First Editions
Extraction of the Teeth
1912, an illustrated dentistry book
J F Colyer
Claudius Ash, Sons & Co, London, 1912
£30.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover
Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III
An examination of the plays including their authorship
Peter Alexander, with an introduction by Alfred W Pollard
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1929
£12.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
Short Studies in Shakespeare
Macbeth, Hamlet, Falstaff...
G F Bradby
John Murray, London, 1929
£10.00
William Shakespeare | Hard Cover | First Editions
Maum Nancy (Signed copy)
Limited edition, signed by Susan Merrick Heywood
Susan Merrick Hayward, illustrated by Wilbur G Kurtz
Mabel Loeb & Virginia Pairo, Atlanta, Georgia, 1937
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Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions
The Great Offensive, The Strategy of Coalition Warfare (Signed copy)
Signed by the translator Heinz Norden
Max Werner, translated by Heinz and Ruth Norden
Victor Gollancz, London, 1943
£30.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Cumsha Cruise (Signed copy)
Signed by E Laurie-Long
Ernest Laurie-Long
Ward Lock & Co, London, 1937
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Men's Gods (Signed copy)
Signed by Edward Charles, a fragment from an unfinished pageant
Edward Charles
Joiner and Steele Ltd, London, 1931
£20.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Slipcase
William the Silent (Signed copy)
Previously owned by theologian C H Dodd and historian J T Driver
C V Wedgwood
Jonathan Cape, London, 1948
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy