1920s

We offer a range of rare first edition books to buy and sell from the 1920s with inspiring authors including Christopher Isherwood, Virginia Woolf, E M Forster.

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A.A. Milne – The House At Pooh Corner – First UK Edition 1928 – w/ custom made case – a very fine copy
£6,500.00
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A.A. Milne – Toad Of Toad Hall – First UK Edition 1929
£385.00
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A.A. Milne – Toad Of Toad Hall – First UK Edition 1929 – Rebound In Blue Leather
£650.00
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A.A. Milne – Winnie The Pooh – First UK Edition 1926 – Superb Copy
£13,500.00
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A.A. Milne [Ernest H. Shepard] – The King’s Breakfast – First Edition 1925
£95.00
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Agatha Christie – Partners In Crime – First UK Edition 1929
£1,250.00
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Agatha Christie – Poirot Investigates – First UK Edition 1924
£4,500.00
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Agatha Christie – The Man in the Brown Suit – First UK Edition 1924
£1,950.00
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Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair At Styles – First UK Edition 1921
£20,000.00
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Agatha Christie – The Secret Of Chimneys – First UK Edition 1925
£4,500.00
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Alain Fournier – The Wanderer – First Edition 1929
£450.00
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Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay – First UK Edition 1923
£95.00
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Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay – First UK Edition 1923
£75.00
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Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow – First UK Edition 1921
£385.00
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Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow – First UK Edition 1921
£475.00
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Aldous Huxley – Limbo – First Edition 1920 – Huxley’s First Published Fiction
£225.00
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Aldous Huxley – Little Mexican – First UK Edition 1924
£75.00
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Aldous Huxley – On The Margin – First UK Edition 1923
£165.00
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Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point – First UK Edition 1928
£275.00
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Aldous Huxley – Those Barren Leaves – First UK Edition 1925
£85.00
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Anita Loos – But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes – First Edition 1928
£95.00
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Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes – First UK Edition 1927
£485.00
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Bertrand Russell – A Free Man’s Worship – With A Special Preface By Bertrand Russell – First US Edition 1923
£125.00
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C.A. Dawson-Scott – Mainly Horses – SIGNED First Edition 1929
£65.00
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Charles Edmonds – A Subaltern’s War – First Edition 1929
£185.00
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Chesterton, Conan Doyle, and Belloc et al. – Where Are The Dead? – First Edition 1928 – In the rare dust wrapper
£150.00
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D.H. Lawrence – Aaron’s Rod – First Edition 1922
£75.00
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D.H. Lawrence – Pornography and Obscenity – Criterion Miscellany No.5 – First Edition 1929
£95.00
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D.H. Lawrence – Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine – First Edition 1925
£95.00
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D.H. Lawrence – Touch And Go – First Edition 1920 – Presentation Copy
£65.00
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Douglas Mawson – SIGNED Letter
£1,250.00
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E M Forster – A Passage To India – First UK Edition 1924
Original price was: £2,750.00.Current price is: £1,375.00.
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E. Keble Chatterton – The Auxiliary Patrol – First Edition 1923
£150.00
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E.M. Forster – A Passage To India – First UK Edition 1924
£600.00
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E.M. Forster – The Eternal Moment – First Edition 1928
£185.00
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E.V. Lucas & E.H. Shepard – Playtime & Company – First Edition 1925
£45.00
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Edith Sitwell – Bucolic Comedies – First Edition 1923
£125.00
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Edith Sitwell – The Wooden Pegasus – First Edition 1920 – SIGNED AND INSCRIBED
£475.00
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Elizabeth Bowen – Encounters – First Edition 1923 – The author’s first book
£450.00
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Elizabeth Von Arnim – The Enchanted April – First Edition
£485.00
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Enid Blyton – Child Whispers – First Edition 1922
Original price was: £3,750.00.Current price is: £1,875.00.
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Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell To Arms – First US Edition 1929
£250.00
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Ezra Pound – Poems 1918-21 – FIRST US EDITION 1921- Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
£225.00
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F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tales of the Jazz Age – True First Edition 1922 – First Issue including the short story of Benjamin Button
£1,250.00
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Frank King – THE GHOUL – First Readers Library Edition
£285.00
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G.K. Chesterton – The Incredulity of Father Brown – First UK Edition 1926
£175.00
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Gladys Mitchell – Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop – First UK Edition 1929
Original price was: £485.00.Current price is: £242.50.
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Graham Greene – The Man Within – First Edition 1929 – In The First Issue Dust Wrapper
£3,750.00
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H.E. Bates – Day’s End and Other Stories – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 1928
£275.00
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H.G. Wells – The Secret Places of the Heart – First Edition 1922
£75.00
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H.G. Wells – The World Of William Clissold – In Three Volumes – First Edition 1926
£165.00
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H.G. Wells – Washington and the Hope of Peace – First Edition 1922
£175.00
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H.G. Wells – When The Sleeper Awakes – First Edition 1922
£185.00
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Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle – First UK Edition 1922
£600.00
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Isaac Rosenberg – Poems By Isaac Rosenberg – First UK Edition 1922
£600.00
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Isabella Beeton – Mrs Beeton’s Household Management – First Edition 1925
£125.00
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J.M. Barrie – The Plays Of J.M. Barrie – First UK Edition 1928
£300.00
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Jerome K. Jerome – A Miscellany of Sense and Nonsense – First Edition 1923
£50.00
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Jerome K. Jerome – Anthony John – First Edition 1923
£50.00
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John Buchan – The Courts of the Morning – First UK Edition 1929
£185.00
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John Buchan – Witch Wood – First Edition 1927
£875.00
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Ludwig Renn – WAR – First Edition 1929
£245.00
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M.R. James – The Five Jars – First UK Edition 1922
£450.00
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Martin Conway – SIGNED Autograph Letter
£85.00
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Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal – SIGNED First Edition 2021
£65.00
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Noel Coward – Bitter Sweet – Proof Copy of the Acting Edition 1929
£95.00
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Noel Coward – The Queen Was In The Parlour – First Edition 1926
£375.00
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Noel Coward – The Rat Trap – First Edition 1924
Original price was: £600.00.Current price is: £300.00.
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P.G. Wodehouse – A Gentleman Of Leisure – First Edition 1921
£350.00
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P.G. Wodehouse – Sam The Sudden – First Edition 1925
£95.00
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P.G. Wodehouse – The Inimitable Jeeves – First Edition 1923 – the first appearance of Jeeves and Wooster
£385.00
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P.G. Wodehouse – Ukridge – First Edition 1924
£185.00
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Patricia Wentworth – Hue and Cry – First US Edition 1927
£250.00
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R.H. MOTTRAM – The Spanish Farm Trilogy – ‚’The Spanish Farm’; ‚’Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four!’; ‚’The Crime at Vanderlyndens’ – First Edition Set 1924-26
£1,250.00
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Ralph M. Robinson – Coutts’, The History of a Banking House – SIGNED First Edition 1929
Original price was: £275.00.Current price is: £137.50.
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Richard Hughes – A High Wind In Jamaica – First Edition 1929
£165.00
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Richard Hughes – A High Wind in Jamaica – First UK Edition 1929
£150.00
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Richmal Crompton – Just William – First Edition 1922
£1,250.00
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Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – First UK Edition 1929 – the true first issue with the Sassoon poem present in exceptional dust wrapper
£2,950.00
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Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – SIGNED First UK Edition 1929
Original price was: £3,750.00.Current price is: £1,875.00.
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Ruth Alexander & Arnold Ridley – The Ghost Train – First Edition 1927
£225.00
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Sapper [Cyril McNeile] – Bull-Dog Drummond – First UK Edition 1920
£175.00
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Sir Frederick Treves – The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences – First US Edition 1924
£475.00
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Theodore Howard Somervell – SIGNED Autograph Letter
£225.00
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Theodore Howard Somervell – SIGNED Letter
£375.00
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Thomas Mann – Death in Venice – First Edition 1928 – Death in Venice – with SIGNATURE and DATE from Mann
£975.00
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Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey – First UK Edition 1927 – with letter from Wilder discussing the novel
£1,250.00
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Upton Sinclair – OIL! [There Will Be Blood] – First Edition 1927
£600.00
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Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room – First US Edition 1923 – Douglas Fairbanks’ Personal Copy
£650.00
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Virginia Woolf – Orlando – First UK Edition 1928
£3,500.00
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Vita Sackville West – The Heir – First Edition 1922
£185.00
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Vita Sackville-West – Grey Wethers – First Edition 1923
£175.00
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Vita Sackville-West – The Heir – First Edition 1922
£185.00
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Vita Sackville-West – Twelve Days – First Edition 1928
£150.00
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Winston Spencer Churchill – The World Crisis 1911–1918 – Complete in six volumes – With SIGNED Slip From Churchill
£6,500.00
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1920s

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A.A. Milne – The House At Pooh Corner – First UK Edition 1928 – w/ custom made case – a very fine copy

A.A. Milne – Toad Of Toad Hall – First UK Edition 1929

A.A. Milne – Toad Of Toad Hall – First UK Edition 1929 – Rebound In Blue Leather

A.A. Milne – Winnie The Pooh – First UK Edition 1926 – Superb Copy

A.A. Milne [Ernest H. Shepard] – The King’s Breakfast – First Edition 1925

Agatha Christie – Partners In Crime – First UK Edition 1929

Agatha Christie – Poirot Investigates – First UK Edition 1924

Agatha Christie – The Man in the Brown Suit – First UK Edition 1924

Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair At Styles – First UK Edition 1921

Agatha Christie – The Secret Of Chimneys – First UK Edition 1925

Alain Fournier – The Wanderer – First Edition 1929

Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay – First UK Edition 1923

Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay – First UK Edition 1923

Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow – First UK Edition 1921

Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow – First UK Edition 1921

Aldous Huxley – Limbo – First Edition 1920 – Huxley’s First Published Fiction

Aldous Huxley – Little Mexican – First UK Edition 1924

Aldous Huxley – On The Margin – First UK Edition 1923

Aldous Huxley – Point Counter Point – First UK Edition 1928

Aldous Huxley – Those Barren Leaves – First UK Edition 1925

Anita Loos – But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes – First Edition 1928

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes – First UK Edition 1927

Bertrand Russell – A Free Man’s Worship – With A Special Preface By Bertrand Russell – First US Edition 1923

C.A. Dawson-Scott – Mainly Horses – SIGNED First Edition 1929

Charles Edmonds – A Subaltern’s War – First Edition 1929

Chesterton, Conan Doyle, and Belloc et al. – Where Are The Dead? – First Edition 1928 – In the rare dust wrapper

D.H. Lawrence – Aaron’s Rod – First Edition 1922

D.H. Lawrence – Pornography and Obscenity – Criterion Miscellany No.5 – First Edition 1929

D.H. Lawrence – Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine – First Edition 1925

D.H. Lawrence – Touch And Go – First Edition 1920 – Presentation Copy

Douglas Mawson – SIGNED Letter

E M Forster – A Passage To India – First UK Edition 1924

E. Keble Chatterton – The Auxiliary Patrol – First Edition 1923

E.M. Forster – A Passage To India – First UK Edition 1924

E.M. Forster – The Eternal Moment – First Edition 1928

E.V. Lucas & E.H. Shepard – Playtime & Company – First Edition 1925

Edith Sitwell – Bucolic Comedies – First Edition 1923

Edith Sitwell – The Wooden Pegasus – First Edition 1920 – SIGNED AND INSCRIBED

Elizabeth Bowen – Encounters – First Edition 1923 – The author’s first book

Elizabeth Von Arnim – The Enchanted April – First Edition

Enid Blyton – Child Whispers – First Edition 1922

Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell To Arms – First US Edition 1929

Ezra Pound – Poems 1918-21 – FIRST US EDITION 1921- Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos

F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tales of the Jazz Age – True First Edition 1922 – First Issue including the short story of Benjamin Button

Frank King – THE GHOUL – First Readers Library Edition

G.K. Chesterton – The Incredulity of Father Brown – First UK Edition 1926

Gift Voucher

Gladys Mitchell – Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop – First UK Edition 1929

Graham Greene – The Man Within – First Edition 1929 – In The First Issue Dust Wrapper

H.E. Bates – Day’s End and Other Stories – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 1928

H.G. Wells – The Secret Places of the Heart – First Edition 1922

H.G. Wells – The World Of William Clissold – In Three Volumes – First Edition 1926

H.G. Wells – Washington and the Hope of Peace – First Edition 1922

H.G. Wells – When The Sleeper Awakes – First Edition 1922

Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle – First UK Edition 1922

Isaac Rosenberg – Poems By Isaac Rosenberg – First UK Edition 1922

Isabella Beeton – Mrs Beeton’s Household Management – First Edition 1925

J.M. Barrie – The Plays Of J.M. Barrie – First UK Edition 1928

Jerome K. Jerome – A Miscellany of Sense and Nonsense – First Edition 1923

Jerome K. Jerome – Anthony John – First Edition 1923

John Buchan – The Courts of the Morning – First UK Edition 1929

John Buchan – Witch Wood – First Edition 1927

Ludwig Renn – WAR – First Edition 1929

M.R. James – The Five Jars – First UK Edition 1922

Martin Conway – SIGNED Autograph Letter

Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal – SIGNED First Edition 2021

Noel Coward – Bitter Sweet – Proof Copy of the Acting Edition 1929

Noel Coward – The Queen Was In The Parlour – First Edition 1926

Noel Coward – The Rat Trap – First Edition 1924

P.G. Wodehouse – A Gentleman Of Leisure – First Edition 1921

P.G. Wodehouse – Sam The Sudden – First Edition 1925

P.G. Wodehouse – The Inimitable Jeeves – First Edition 1923 – the first appearance of Jeeves and Wooster

P.G. Wodehouse – Ukridge – First Edition 1924

Patricia Wentworth – Hue and Cry – First US Edition 1927

R.H. MOTTRAM – The Spanish Farm Trilogy – ‚’The Spanish Farm’; ‚’Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four!’; ‚’The Crime at Vanderlyndens’ – First Edition Set 1924-26

Ralph M. Robinson – Coutts’, The History of a Banking House – SIGNED First Edition 1929

Richard Hughes – A High Wind In Jamaica – First Edition 1929

Richard Hughes – A High Wind in Jamaica – First UK Edition 1929