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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Theodore Howard Somervell – SIGNED Autograph Letter
£225.00172 x 117 mm
A fine autograph letter in black ink on folded ivory paper with central horizontal crease, three blue adhesive marks to verso.
In full: ‘Dear Sir, I am afraid…
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Martin Conway – SIGNED Autograph Letter
£85.00A fine self addressed autograph letter to E. Stanley Jones from Martin Conway on home addressed paper –Â 169 Jerningham Road, New Cross, London SE14Â Telephone: New Cross 4109 – dated…
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Douglas Mawson – SIGNED Letter
£1,250.00A fine letter to E. Stanley Jones from Douglas Mawson, on the paper of the Royal Societies Club, St James’s Street SW1, dated 11 March 1929, written in blue ink…
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Theodore Howard Somervell – SIGNED Letter
£375.00A fine letter addressed to E. Stanley Jones from T. Howard Somervell on headed paper from Skyefold, Ambleside, Westmorland in blue ink on white paper, free from creases.
In full: ‘Dear…
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H.E. Bates – Day’s End and Other Stories – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 1928
£275.00First edition, first printing of ‘Day’s End and Other Stories’. 8vo. Original cloth, in the original dust wrapper in 1928.
A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. Firm binding,…
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Vita Sackville West – The Heir – First Edition 1922
£185.00A first edition, first printing of The Heir by Vita Sackville-West, published by Heinemann, London in 1922. A very good book, boards bound in publisher’s original tan cloth with gilt…
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Upton Sinclair – OIL! [There Will Be Blood] – First Edition 1927
£600.00A first edition, first printing published by Albert and Charles Boni in 1927. A very good book with one neat name to the front endpaper. Some rubbing to the corners and…
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Vita Sackville-West – The Heir – First Edition 1922
£185.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Heir’ published by Heinemann in 1922. A very good book bound in an elaborate private cloth binding. Some fading and wear to the…
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Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair At Styles – First UK Edition 1921
£20,000.00A first edition, first printing ‘The Mysterious Affair At Styles’ published by John Lane in 1921. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some light wear to the edges which are…
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A.A. Milne – Winnie The Pooh – First UK Edition 1926
£4,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Winnie The Pooh’ published by Methuen in 1926 – illustrations by E.H. Shepard, map endpapers, original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., dust jacket…
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Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell To Arms – First US Edition 1929
£250.00A edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York circa 1929. Issue with a version of 1932 photoplay wrapper. A very good…
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Bertrand Russell – A Free Man’s Worship – With A Special Preface By Bertrand Russell – First US Edition 1923
£125.00First US edition, first printing of A Free Man’s Worship by Bertrand Russell, published by Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, Maine in 1923, published in a limited edition of 950. A…
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Herbert Asbury – The Gangs of New York – First Edition 1928
£975.00First edition, first printing of ’The Gangs of New York’. Published by Alfred Knopf in New York, 1928. This is a very good copy. The quarter-buckram and paper boards are…
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Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal – SIGNED First Edition 2021
£65.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Operation Pedestal’ published by William Collins in 2021. A fine book without inscriptions in like unclipped wrapper a little rubbed to the corners. SIGNED…
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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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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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