What a decade, outbreak of the Second World War, The Great Depression gripped economies worldwide, leading to widespread unemployment and economic hardship. Political turmoil swept across Europe, with the rise of fascist regimes in Germany and Italy, while the Spanish Civil War divided nations. However, some superb works of fiction were created and some are included in our category
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Flora Thompson – Lark Rise – First Edition 1939
£875.00A first edition, first printing of Lark Rise by Flora Thompson, published by Oxford University Press, London in 1939. A near fine book, boards bound in publisher’s original light brown…
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Arthur Ransome – Pigeon Post – First UK Edition 1936 – with SIGNED Letter From Ransome
£485.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Pigeon Post’ published by Jonathan Cape in 1936. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some wear to the extremities. In the unclipped very good…
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Collinson Owen – The Riverton Wagers – First Edition 1931
£250.00A first edition, first printing published by Cassell in 1931. A good book with browning to the spine and general wear, some fraying. In the exceptionally scarce wrapper priced at…
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Daphne Du Maurier – Jamaica Inn – First UK Edition 1936
£4,750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Jamaica Inn’ published by Gollancz in 1936. A very good book (a little wear to the edges and spine tips and browning to the…
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Agatha Christie – Cards On The Table – First Edition – with Dame Agatha Christie’s SIGNED Compliments PageÂ
£2,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Cards on the Table’, by Agatha Christie, published by Collins in 1936. A very good book with a little fading to the spine and…
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Noel Streatfeild – Tennis Shoes – First Edition 1937
£125.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Tennis Shoes’ published by Dent in 1937. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions. Some scattered spotting to the prelims and last few…
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Hilda Vaughan – The Soldier And The Gentlewoman – First Edition 1932
£95.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Soldier and the Gentlewoman’ published by Gollancz in 1932. A near fine book without inscriptions in a near fine unclipped wrapper with a…
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George Orwell – The Road To Wigan Pier – Left Book Club Edition 1937
£85.00A first edition, first printing of The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell, published by Victor Gollancz for the Left Book Club in London, 1937, illustrated with 32 plates….
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George Bernard Shaw [Frank Harris] – Bernard Shaw – An Unauthorized Biography – SIGNED and lined by Shaw
£1,350.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Bernard Shaw’ published by Garden City Publishing (Star) in 1931. A very good book without inscriptions, INSCRIBED on the title page by Shaw beneath…
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Damon Runyon – Guys and Dolls – First US Edition 1931
£17,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Guys and Dolls’ published by Stokes in 1931. A near fine book without inscriptions – a touch of wear to the head f the…
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Mahatma Gandhi: Essays and Reflections on His Life and [Edited by S. Radhakrishnan] – First Edition 1939 – with wrap-around band
£285.00A first edition, first printing published by George Allen and Unwin in 1939. A near fine book with one neat name to the front endpaper. In a very good unclipped…
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Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye To Berlin – First Edition 1939
£2,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Goodbye To Berlin’, published by The Hogarth Press in 1939. A very good/near fine book with one neat name to the front endpaper, spine…
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Robert Graves – Count Belisarius – First Edition 1938 – With wrap-around band
£485.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Count Belisarius’, published by Cassell in 1938. A near fine book with some light spotting to the text block. A very good wrapper with…
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Robert Graves – Claudius The God – First Edition 1934
£375.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Claudius The God’, published by Arthur Barker in 1934. A very good book without inscriptions with no foxing whatsoever. In a very good unclipped…
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J.B. Priestley – Angel Pavement – First Edition 1930
£85.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Angel Pavement’ published by Heinemann in 1930. A near fine book without inscriptions – some fading to the spine. In the near fine unclipped…
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Stella Benson – Tobit Transplanted – First Edition 1931
£65.00A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1931. A fine without inscriptions. In a fine unclipped wrapper – a lovely copy.
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