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London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933. Number 246 of 525 copies of this deluxe edition, signed by George Moore and Stephen Gooden. More
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933. Number 246 of 525 copies of this deluxe edition, signed by George Moore and Stephen Gooden. More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933 (third, 'Cheap', edition)/ 1932. Signed by the author in ink on the title-page. Autobiography; not least, Joseph Conrad, J.M. Barrie and Arnold Bennett. More
London, A.& C. Black, Ltd., 1933 (new edition)/ 1910. The 32 colour plates are new to this edition. More
London, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1934. With the ownership signature of [Professor] David Saunders. Also with a presentation slip to the New South Wales chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a Royal Institute of British Architects compliments slip loosely inserted. More
London, Lloyd's, 1934. More
London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1934/ 1933. Dustwrapper by Philip Simmonds; Harrap's Shilling Library. 'Bruce Graeme was a pseudonym for Graham Montague Jeffries [1900-1982], who also wrote as Peter Bourne and David Graeme. He was born in London and served in the Queen's Westminster Rifles in 1918. He married..... More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1934 (first thus)/ 1933 (in two volumes). More
Flansham, Bognor Regis, Pear Tree Press, 1934. Number 25 of 100 copies. 'Script by Helen Hinkley. Design and plate printing by James Guthrie'. Guthrie, who was known for his experiments in coloured intaglio printing, has signed the final leaf. William Strode (1598-1645) was one of the five members of parliament..... More
[Sydney, ABC, 1934]. Trove, listing only the NLA and Monash University Library copies, describes the item thus: 'A pamphlet issued by the ABC for its radio listeners throughout its national radio network in Australia. It includes the conditions and regulations, route, prizes, handicap formula, safety measures, entries with biographies, pilots..... More
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1934. Number 24 in the Faber Library series. This is a later issue of the first printing, with the misprint on the half-title corrected. 'Only the last essay, "John Marston", is printed here for the first time in book form; the others are reprinted from..... More
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Number 125 of 250 copies signed by the author. The ninth book in the Golden Cockerel series of first editions by contemporary authors. Chanticleer 99. More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1934. More
Benfleet, Lewis, 1935. Limited to 500 copies. More
Oxford, Humphrey Milford, (August) 1935. More
London, Royal Historical Society, 1935. Camden Third Series, Volume LI. This work is in Latin. More
London, Macmillan, 1935. More
London, Seeley, Service, [1935]/ 1931. Volume X in the Lonsdale Library. Loosely inserted are three illustrated advertising items; The Angler's Weekend Book, staple bound, 8 pages, fine; Greased Line Fishing for Salmon, a 2 page flyer folded in the middle, excellent [and] The Lonsdale Library 'bookmark' (printed on both sides)..... More
[Sydney, The Author, 1935, eleventh edition]. More
London, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1935. A delightful children's book in verse by Bernard Darwin, better known for his writings on golf (and for being a grandson of the more famous Charles); the charming colour lithographs are by his wife Elinor. More
London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935 (first edition). One of only 285 copies printed of this early short story by Greene, this being number 223 of 250 copies for sale, signed by the author. One of the Grayson Books series, edited by John Hackney and printed by the Garden City Press..... More
[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935 (first thus). Number 180 of 300 copies. 'The Gregynog Press, Montgomeryshire, was one of many artistic activities due to the enlightened philanthropy of two sisters, Miss Gwendoline Davies, C.H., and Miss Margaret Davies, LL.D.. The standard of craftsmanship which was quickly achieved made it comparable..... More
London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Number 24 of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. One of the Grayson Books series edited by John Hackney. More
London, Hodder & Stoughton, Publishers, 1935. Includes 36 full-page plates. Francis 'Frank' Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), mountaineer, photographer, author and botanist. More
London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935 (first edition). More
London, Hutchinson, 1936. In his thirty years in the Colonial Service, the author 'has been stationed out east in the islands of the Pacific; south in the Falklands ... and west in the islands of the Caribbean'. More
London, William Heinemann, 1936. Inscribed and signed by the author on an early blank to Ethelwynne Giles. Shirley Cameron Wilson, the author's niece, has written her name at the head of the half-title. Loosely inserted is a flyleaf detached from another (smaller) book; it is signed 'Nell. G. Strawbridge' (Allan's..... More
London, Guinness, 1936. One of the superb series of 24 promotional booklets published annually by Guinness between 1933-39 and 1950-66. More
London, The Hogarth Press, 1936 (first edition). More
[No place], 'Published by Authority of Convocation' [of the Free Church of England], and printed by H. Sharp & Sons, Bath, [1936]. 'Subscription edition' signed by the author, Bishop Primus of the Free Church of England. Additionally inscribed 'To "Gerald" from Uncle Frank, the Author. April 1936'. More
London, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1937. With the bookplate of Noel Lothian on the pastedown, and a family signature. A complementary volume to Farrer's 'English Rock Garden'. More
Adelaide, R.M. Osborne Ltd., 1937. 'Fourth Test Match. English v Australia. Adelaide. Jan. 29th. 1937' (cover title). Padwick 4499. More
[London, no imprint details], 1937. The entire programme looks to be the product of a well-meaning amateur. The text is obviously hand-set and hand-printed, and it is written in an engaging chatty style, commencing thus: 'Six war-blinded Australian ex-Servicemen will be in the contingent of Australians and New Zealanders who..... More
London, 'Daily Telegraph', 1937. The High Commissioners are: The Honourable Vincent Massey, Canada; The Right Honourable Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth of Australia; W.J. Jordan, New Zealand; C.T. Te Water, Union of South Africa; J.W. Dulanty, Irish Free State; and Sir Firoz Khan Noon, India. The Ambassadors are: Dr Paul Regis de..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 (fifth impression)/ 1937. 'In this man of the Merchant Service you will find the true successors to the Cabots and the Frobishers, the Grenvilles and the Drakes'. Frontispiece by Stanley Rogers. More
London, Seeley Service & Co. Ltd, [1937]. More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus). Number 552 of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. '[Robert] Thornton had published his school edition of Virgil in 1812, with a second edition printed in 1819. This included not only Virgil's Latin verses but also "imitations" of Virgilian poetry by other..... More
London, The Hogarth Press, 1937 (new edition, third reprint)/ 1935. Loosely inserted is a poem by Lewis clipped from the 'New Statesman' (in 1938). More
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. More
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. Seventeen essays, including 'James Joyce et PĂ©cuchet' (in French) and 'Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit'. Gallup A42a: 'Published 11 February 1937 at 7s. 6d.; 2000 copies printed ... 700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound..... More
London, British Museum, 1938 [second edition]. With a Christmas gift inscription and small illustration (dated London, 1950) to the sculptor John Dowie. More
London, Royal Thames Yacht Club Committee, 1938 (first edition). With 25 plates. More
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 (first edition). 'Churchill has, during the six years 1932-38, achieved an extraordinary ascendancy in the House of Commons.... This book ... comprises more than forty of the speeches which he has delivered during this time on the paramount topics of foreign affairs..... More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd for the William Ramsay Henderson Trust, 1938. With the ink gift inscription to, and with the bookplates (one pictorial, one armorial) of, Walter Russell Brain, First Baron Brain of Eynsham (1895-1966); physician, medical statesman, essayist, public servant, medical scientist, neurologist and poet (who wrote one of..... More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1938. Number 40 of 850 sets, designed by Francis Meynell. Loosely inserted are two contemporary newspaper reviews. [2 items]. More
London, Jarrolds Publishers London Limited, [Circa 1938]. The 'portraits' include those of George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, Lord Kitchener, Roger Casement and William Butler Yeats. More
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, [Unidentified Photographer], 1938. The Burnie 'Advocate' (Friday 5 August 1938) has an interesting account of the first day's play: 'The Australians arrived by charabanc at the picturesque Broughton [sic] Ferry ground to-day, wearing tartan bonnets, but there was nothing festive about their early batting on a good..... More
London, Dent, 1939/ 1935. More
London, Cassell and Company, 1939. More
London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, August 1939 (first UK edition, preceded by the US edition by only one week: they were published on 25 August and 18 August respectively). 'Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library' is printed in white on the lime-green oval-shaped panel near the foot of the spine, in place of..... More