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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Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes – First UK Edition 1927
£485.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ published by John Murray in 1927. A very good book with a neat gift inscription to the front endpaper….
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Konstantin Stanislavsky – My Life in Art – First Russian Foreign Edition
£95.00A first edition, first printing of this, the Foreign Languages edition of ‘My Life in Art’ published in 1925. A very good book without inscriptions with spotting to the endpapers…
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Agatha Christie – The Secret Of Chimneys – First UK Edition 1925
£1,250.00A first edition, first printing if ‘The Secret of Chimneys’ published by John Lane and The Bodley Head in 1925. A good copy with spine expertly laid on – no…
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Agatha Christie – The Man in the Brown Suit – First UK Edition 1924
£675.00A first edition, first printing published by The Bodley Head John Lane in 1924. A good copy, with first issue with “First published in 1924” to the copyright page. Publisher’s…
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A.A. Milne – The House At Pooh Corner – First UK Edition 1928
£1,500.00First edition, first printing of ‘The House at Pooh Corner’, published by Methuen in London, 1928. This is a near fine (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, with decorations by…
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C.A. Dawson-Scott – Mainly Horses – SIGNED First Edition 1929
£65.00A first edition, first printing published by Appleton in 1929. A very good book SIGNED without dedication to the front endpaper. Some wear to the edges and corners. A book…
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Thomas Mann – Death in Venice – First Edition 1928
£300.00A first edition, first printing published by Martin Secker in 1928. A very good book with small name and bookplate to the front endpaper. Spine a little sunned with some…
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T.E. Lawrence – Revolt in the Desert – First Edition 1927
£85.00A first edition, first printing published by Doran in 1927. A very good book with spotting within and to the page edges. Wear to the spine tips and corners.
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P.G. Wodehouse – A Gentleman Of Leisure – First Edition 1921
£350.00A first edition of ‘A Gentleman of Leisure’ by P G Wodehouse, published by Herbert Jenkins in 1921. A very good book without inscriptions – unfaded boards – wear to…
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P.G. Wodehouse – Ukridge – First Edition 1924
£185.00A first edition of ‘Ukridge’ by P G Wodehouse, published by Herbert Jenkins in 1924. A very good book with a neat gift inscription to the front endpaper – unfaded…
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John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga – First Issue 1922
£750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Forsyte Saga’ by John Galsworthy, published by Heinemann in 1922. A near fine book without inscriptions. This, the first issue with lack of…
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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
£2,950.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1929. A near fine copy without inscriptions. This is the FIRST ISSUE with the Sassoon poem. Gutter to front-endpaper marked. In…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise – First Edition 1921
£750.00A first edition, first printing of the first UK edition of ‘This Side of Paradise’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Collins in 1921. A near fine book without inscriptions,…
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Sir Frederick Treves – The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences – First US Edition 1924
£475.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Elephant Man’ by Sir Frederick Treves, published by Henry Holt in 1924. A very good book with a previous owner’s inscription to the…
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Ezra Pound – Poems 1918-21 – FIRST US EDITION 1921- Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
£225.00A first edition, first US printing of Poems 1918-21 by Ezra Pound, published by Boni and Liveright, New York in 1921. A very good book without dust-wrapper, internals free from…
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Edith Sitwell – The Wooden Pegasus – First Edition 1920 – SIGNED AND INSCRIBED
£475.00A first edition, first printing of The Wooden Pegasus by Edith Sitwell, published by Basil Blackwell in 1920. A very good book with wear to the boards – INSCRIBED on…
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