The Return
London, Collins, 1922 [revised edition]/ 1910. Number 218 of 250 copies signed by the author. More
London, Collins, 1922 [revised edition]/ 1910. Number 218 of 250 copies signed by the author. More
Aldershot, Gale and Polden, [not before 1922]. More
Stirling, Eneas Mackay, 1922. More
London, William Heinemann, 1922 to 1928. Number 453 of 780 sets (750 for sale), with the first volume signed by the author. The titles are 'The Works of Max Beerbohm'; 'More'; 'Yet Again'; 'A Christmas Garland'; 'And Even Now'; 'Zuleika Dobson'; 'Seven Men'; 'Around Theatres l'; 'Around Theatres ll'; and..... More
London, The Studio Limited, 1922. More
London, George Allen & Unwin Limited for 'The Society of Bookmen', 1922. More
London, Martin Secker, 1922 [deluxe edition]/ [1917]. Number 109 of 150 copies of this deluxe large-paper issue on blue paper signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph postcard initialled by Norman Douglas, addressed to his friend Ralph Straus, prolific novelist and biographer: 'c/o T. Cook & Son, Via..... More
London, The Offices of Country Life, 1922. Provenance: the prominent Adelaide architect Frank Kenneth Milne (1885-1980), with numerous bookmarks (often on recycled scraps of paper - including some on blueprints - a number of them annotated or initialled by him) gathered together and housed in a loosely inserted Mylar sleeve..... More
London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. More
London, Dent, 1923. More
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
Sydney, Butterworth, [1923] (second revised edition, also first Australian edition)/ 1912. In the Notable British Trials series. Not stated as such, but the Colonial edition. More
London, Selwyn & Blount, 1923 ('Limited Edition', first thus)/ 1919. 'One hundred copies have been issued of this book with seven hand-coloured woodcuts by Agatha Walker'; this is an unnumbered copy, possibly out of series. More
London, Andrew Melrose, 1923 (first edition). Including an introduction by Major-General L.C. Dunsterville, of Dunsterforce fame. Kipling immortalised Dunsterville in 'Stalky and Co'; the force itself numbered under 350, and comprised elite soldiers and officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Colonel Sir Toby Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet (1867-1934)..... More
London, Halton and Truscott Smith, 1923. More
London, Duckworth & Co., 1923. The balance of the text on the title reads 'Music by several popular composers, with harlequinade, transformation scene, cinematograph effects, and many other novelties, as well as old and tried favourites. Decorated with designs engraved on wood by Paul Nash'. More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1923 (first edition). A spare title-label is tipped in at the rear. More
London, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1923. 'Of this Edition on hand-made paper 230 copies have been printed, of which not more than 200 are for sale in Great Britain. This is number [Overseas 19].' Signed by the author beneath the preface. [2 items]. More
Glasgow, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. More
London, Blackie and Son Limited, 1923. More
Sydney, 'Printed ... by Radcliffe Press ... by Authority from Penleigh Boyd', 1923. All 581 items were for sale; the original price-list is attached to the recto of the rear cover with a small piece of tape. The foreword to the British section was written by 'the famous English critic'..... More
London, Selwyn and Blount, 1924. Number 96 of only 300 copies numbered and signed by the author, and the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
Leeds, Chorley and Pickersgill/ The Electric Press and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1924 and 1950. More
London, Printed for Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1924. Number 518 of only 825 copies. The Haslewood Reprints, No. 2. More
Soho, The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Number 491 of only 850 numbered copies. More
London, A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1924. Provenance: [Sir] Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947), the influential motor-body builder whose business became a household name. His armorial bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown of each volume (along with the small paper label of the contemporary Adelaide bookseller F.W. Preece). [2 items]..... More
London, The Favil Press (for The English Bookplate Society), July 1924. The halftone tipped-in bookplate was designed by Henri van Raalte for the Adelaide bookseller John Lloyd Preece (1895-1969). Preece's name and address also appear on the loosely-inserted EPS 'Exchange List No. 1' (1924). Fuller's 'A Bibliography of Bookplate Literature'..... More
London, W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1924. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1924, first thus]. More
London, Bell, 1925. More
London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member..... More
London, Constable, 1925. Eight tipped-in colour plates. Loosely inserted is a publisher's postcard (to subscribe to their monthly list). More
London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1925 (second printing)/ 1924. H. M. Tomlinson (1873-1958). 'English novelist and essayist who wrote naturally and with feeling about London, the sea, the tropics, and the futility of war' ('Encyclopaedia Britannica' website). More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1925 [first edition in English]. 'Remembrance of Things Past', Parts Three and Four. [2 items]. More
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [1926, first edition, signed deluxe issue]. Number 1 of 85 copies of the deluxe issue on hand-made paper, signed by T.S. Eliot (and only 75 copies were offered for sale). This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and..... More
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1925 [first edition]. This collection includes some of Eliot's best-loved poems, including 'Prufrock', 'The Waste Land', and 'The Hollow Men'. 'The dedication to "The Waste Land" ['For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro'] (which appears as an autograph inscription in the copy of the first edition..... More
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Number 26 of only 30 copies in full vellum signed by John Nash; the standard edition (unsigned, in quarter parchment) comprised a further 350 copies. Swift's satirical essay was first published posthumously in 1745. Chanticleer 23. 'An experiment, possibly in this case retrograde, in..... More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 'Printed for private circulation', 1925. More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Loosely inserted is a slip reproducing a letter by the Press and published by the "Times Literary Supplement", October 1925, referring to 'the new edition of the Leslie-Birrell translation of Plato's "Symposium"', concluding that 'our consent was given for an edition which would be of..... More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925. The first edition of this collection of poems. More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1925 (first edition). The title song first appeared as a poem in 'When We Were Very Young' (1924). 'For this separate publication Mr. A.A. Milne has written a special and very amusing [four-page] Introduction. The work also contains a new song "Feed-my-Cow," for which Mr..... More
London, Cambridge University Press, 1926 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of Professor W[ilfred] D. Borrie, 'the father of Australian demography'. Not least, the impact of the Railway Revolution on England in the early nineteenth century. Includes 2 folding maps; rare with the dustwrapper. More
Maidstone, South Eastern Gazette, 1926. Includes a folding map of Port Said. More
London, The Pilgrim Progress, [circa 1926]. More