Twentieth Century

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 1306
LEWIS, C.S.

LEWIS, C.S. ~ Rehabilitations and other essays.

London: Oxford University Press,  1939.
First edition. A collection of essays whose title characterized much of Lewis's work, as he attempted to bring the fading critical reputation of authors he revered back into balance. A nice copy, uncommon in this condition.   view more...
£400.00
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 1401
SIMON, André L.

SIMON, André L.  ~ The history of the wine trade in England.

London: The Holland Press,  1964.
Facsimile edition of the original (1905-1906) edition with the addition of an index. An essential reference work that covers the history of the English wine trade from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century. Simon believed that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar." In keeping with this philosophy, he reputedly left only two magnums of claret when he died at the age of ninety-three.    view more...
£175.00
US$340.32*
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 1402
BLAKE, William.

BLAKE, William.  ~ The Poems... edited and arrnaged with a preface by John Sampson...

London: Florence Press for Chatto & Windus,  1921.
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 1403
BOGUET, Henry, edited by Montague SUMMERS.

BOGUET, Henry, edited by Montague SUMMERS. ~ An examen of witches drawn from various trials of many of this sect in the district of Saint Oyan de Joux, commonly known as Saint Claude, in the county of Burgundy, including the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft / by Henry Boguet, chief judge in the said county; translated by E. Allen Ashwin, edited by the Rev. Montague Summers.

[London:] John Rodker,  1929.
One of 1275 copies (this copy unnumbered) of a translation of Boguet's Discours des sorciers, first published in French at the opening of the seventeenth-century.   view more...
£40.00
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 1404
 

ROUND, J. Horace. ~ The King's Serjeants & Officers of State with their Coronation Services.

London: James Nisbet,  1911.
First edition, this copy with an autograph letter to Vaughan by the author laid in.   view more...
£25.00
US$48.62*
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 1480
 

(LONDON). MACQUEEN-POPE, W[alter]. ~ Haymarket: theatre of perfection.

London: W.H. Allen,  1948.
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£10.00
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 1148
SILTZER, Frank.

SILTZER, Frank. ~ The story of British sporting prints.

London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd.,  1929.
Revised and enlarged second edition, limited to 1000 copies.   view more...
£75.00
US$145.85*
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 1157
HUXLEY, Aldous.

HUXLEY, Aldous. ~ Eyeless in Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus,  1936.
Signed, limited, first edition of Huxley's follow-up to Brave New World. Number 150 of 200 copies.   view more...
£250.00
US$486.17*
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 1162
PIRANDELLO, Luigi

PIRANDELLO, Luigi ~ Liola.

Rome: A. F. Form'ggini,  1917.
First edition. Considered to be the best play the author wrote in the traditional medium, a landmark in the history of the Italian theatre. The author was later the first Italian playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.    view more...
£475.00
US$923.73*
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 1163
BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles. ~ Un mangeur d'opium.

Paris: La Mandragore,  1945.
First edition thus. Of a total edition of 170 copies, this is one of 16 copies with an additional suite of plates and one original illustration. Un mangeur d'opium is an extract from Des Paradis Artificiels and is illustrated throughout with coloured woodcuts by Leon Masson.   view more...
£400.00
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 1554
 

LAWRENCE, D[avid]. H[erbert]. ~ Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[Florence:] Privately printed,  1928.
First Edition, a superlative copy. Copy 37 of 1,000 numbered & signed by Lawrence. Original mulberry-colored boards with spine-label. Exceedingly fine copy, the pages mostly uncut, in a fine intact example of the original unprinted dust-jacket. Roberts A42a. A spectacular copy of one of the most notorious books of literature of the 20th century.    view more...
£14000.00
US$27225.74*
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 1227
WILLIAMS, C[harles].

WILLIAMS, C[harles]. ~ Demoniacal obsession and possession as causes of insanity.

London: the Ambrose Co., Ltd,  1911.
First edition. Williams was a practical if unconventional expert in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, though this work concentrates on the possibility of possesssion from a Christian perspective. He was a prolific author on the subject and his other works included: A new method for treating the insane; A short essay on insanity; Religion and insanity; Spiritual Insanity. To judge by the adverts here they elicited a favourable response in many quarters.   view more...
£75.00
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 1124
(SCOTTISH VERSE.) KIDD, A.

(SCOTTISH VERSE.) KIDD, A. ~ Poems by a railway porter.

Paisley: James Paton Ltd.,  1928.
First edition of a warm-spirited collection of verse by a railwayman of the Bridge of Weir (Renfrewshire). Many of Kidd's poems are in dialect and are variations on traditional Scottish themes ("Address to White Horse Whisky" etc). The collection also includes a series of the author's couplets first 'published' in white pebbles arranged on the station embankment: "Dispense with Drugs, but don't despair / Try Bridge of Weir for pure health-giving air."   view more...
£60.00
US$116.68*
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 1117
WICKHAM, Louis and Paul DEGRAIS.

WICKHAM, Louis and Paul DEGRAIS. ~ Le Radium son emploi dans le Traitement du Cancer des angiomes, chéloïdes, tuberculoses locales et d'autres affections... Avec 53 figures dans le texte.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils,  1913.
First edition of this pioneering text in radiotherapy, issued as part of Les Actualités Médicales series, this copy inscribed by Paul Degrais to a leading French homeopath, Léon Vannier. Wickham, a French dermatologist and pioneer of radium therapy, began treating tumours and gynaecological conditions with radium in 1908. He and his younger colleague Degrais were among the first clinicians to treat human conditions with 'radiumtherapy' having obtained radium from the Curies. Wickham died in 1913, several months before his colleague Degrais inscribed this copy to Vannier. The work also appeared in an English translation printed in London in the same year. It was preceded by the larger work Radiumthérapie; instrumentation, technique, traitement des cancers, chéloïdes, naevi, lupus, prurits, névrodermites, eczémas, applications gynécologiques (Paris, 1909).   view more...
£200.00
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