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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.
(We don't keep all of our stock in the shop, so send us an email if you're planning a trip to see a particular author or book.)
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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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Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – First UK Edition 1926
£2,750.00First edition, first printing of ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’. Published by Collins, London, 1926. This is a very good copy. No inscriptions. Gutters slightly cracked and a small pull…
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A.A. Milne – When We Were Very Young – First Edition 1924
£3,500.00A first edition, first issue of ‘When We Were Very Young’ published by Methuen 1924. Original blue cloth gilt with vignettes to the boards in gilt. Top edge gilt. Decorations…
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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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Thomas Mann – Death in Venice – First Edition 1928 – Death in Venice – with SIGNATURE and DATE from Mann
£975.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Death in Venice’ published by Martin Secker in 1928. A very good book with bookplate to the front pastedown SIGNED ‘Thomas Mann/London/17th May 1949’…
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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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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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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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Edith Sitwell – Bucolic Comedies – First Edition 1923
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Duckworth in 1923. A near fine book without inscriptions, endpapers have off-setting, but no foxing whatsoever and only a little wear to the…
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Elizabeth Von Arnim – The Enchanted April – First Edition
£485.00A first UK edition, first printing of The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim, with colour frontispiece after a water-colour by Hon. Lady Mallet, published by Macmillan, London in 1922….
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