1930s Books

A nice first edition copy of this experimental novel by Virginia Woolf, one of her most puzzling publications, here in the original beautifully designed dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. The first edition, first impression of this work. In the original Vanessa Bell designed unclipped dust wrapper. One of the experimental novels of Virginia Woolf, following six narrators from childhood to adulthood through a series of soliloquies, ruminating on the concepts of individuality, self, and community. Readers can see some of Woolf's friends in her characters in this novel; in particular E. M. Forster in the writer Bernard, T. S. Eliot in the outsider Louis, Lytton Strachey in Neville, Mary Hutchinson in the socialite Jinny, Vanessa Bell, in the fleeing Susan, and Thoby Stephen in the flawed and never narrator Percival. Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press...

A fascinating collection of one-hundred and forty-four postcards of military uniforms, a number of which depict 1930s Germany. A total of one-hundred and forty-four twentieth century postcards, the majority depicting military uniform in England, France and Europe. A number of post cards, intriguingly, depict 1930s Munich and Potsdam. Sixteen envelopes holding images and postcards, and a further ten loosely inserted postcards. Housed in a signed morocco box with gilt detailing by W & J Milne of Princes St. Edinburgh. One envelope has the handwritten title ‘Postcards from Munich 1932’, and houses eleven postcards. Two of these present headshots of popular German actors Heinz Ruhmann and Gustav Frohlich, both of whom are dressed in military costume, and remained neutral in the Second World War. The remaining nine postcards depict images of a funeral procession of Prince Regent Leopold of Bavaria in October 1930 in Munich. Leopold was commander of the German and Austro-Hungarian forces during World War I. Further images depict Prince Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, surrounded by military figures. The next envelope includes fifteen photographic postcards depicting Potsdam in the 1930s, and is captioned in ink to the front of the envelope with ‘Potsdam. September 1936’, and ‘Frederick William I’s Giant Guards’. Each post card is undated, but captioned. Three post cards depict military parades in Potsdam, and predate the Nazi regime, seven depict memorials the First World War, and one of the remaining postcards depict Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. A further collection is ten colour post cards in the publisher’s original paper wraps, titled ‘Potsdams Stolzen Tagen’, or ‘Potsdam’s Proud Days’. It features ten colour illustrated postcards by artist Paul Pietsch, depicting the uniforms of Potsdam military positions between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries. Collated, complete. Loosely inserted are ten colour illustrated post cards depicting the military uniform of the various regiments of the German army, illustrated by Carl Henckel, and covering the period of the First World War. Present here are depictions of the garb of the Gardes du Corps...

AFRIQUE ÉQUATORIALE FRANÇAISE, Terres et races d'avenir Text by René Maran / illustrated by Paul Jouve paperback including 11 original full-page, black, off-text compositions printed...

Antique Japanese Buddhism book Edo period, circa 1867 Woodblack print book Book dimensions: 226 mm x 159 mm There are damages because it is antique item as we show on the phot...

AUTHOR: BRETONNE, Nicolas Restif de La. TITLE: L'Oeuvre de Restif de La Bretonne. 1 - Les Nuits de Paris, 2 - Les Contemporaines, 3 - Le Pornographe, 4 - La Vie de mon Pere, 5 - Le...

According to Eleanor Garvey "The Artist and the Book" (p. 122) this work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books." Aristide MAILLOL, illus.; LONGUS author Daphnis and Chloe; A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies, translated out of the Greek of Longus by Geo. Thornley. London: A. Zwemmer [printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin], 1937. Limited Edition. 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (200 x 132 mm); pp. vi, 211,colophon,12; Copy 21 of 250 numbered copies on hand-made Maillol paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon, with 52 original woodcuts, and 4 woodcut initials, printed in bistre; leading and bottom edges deckled. Full vellum with laced-in thongs, gilt lettering on spine, faint; pencil notations and tipped in label from earlier booksellers on inside front cover, edges stained on first 2 and last 2 blanks. EXTRA SUITE of 45 WOODCUTS in a separate vellum portfolio, printed in black. Fine copy in simple cardboard slipcase. Colophon: "Aristide Maillol engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which illustrate this book, The text is that of Thronley's translation of 1657, revised and augmented. Philippe Gonin of Paris undertook the achievement of this work, and printed it on his hand-press, for A. Zwemmer, London. Paris December 7th, 1937", followed by MAILLOL'S SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. Garvey 174; Garvey Wick 22; BNF32393010 Condition: FINE An ancient Greek novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus, translated by George Thornley...

1939 The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide. Rare Hardcover 1st edition.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. 1st Ed Thus hardcover with slip case. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens' 2nd...

Mr. Dooley at His Best. Edited by Elmer Ellis at the University of Missouri. With a Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, 1st printing, one of 520 copies with one page of the author's original manuscript. Frontispiece portrait. 291 pp. Buckram and decorated boards with a leather label. Finley Peter Dunne (1867- 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Speaking with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, the fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub...

The Collection of Louis Guerineau Myers. Catalogue of the auction/exhibition held at American Art Association, April 2-9, 1932, featuring "Duncan Phyfe: Characteristic examples in his most beautiful designs, of both Sheraton and Empire styles, including several pieces which were believed by Mr. Myers to be unique; Sheraton and Hepplewhite, including notable Philadelphia and Baltimore examples; rare pewter...

Author: WARD, Lynd. Title: Madman's Drum. A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Publisher: NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. SECOND PRINTI...

Meubles et Sièges du XVIII Siècle: Menuisiers, Ébénistes, Margues, Plans et Ornemaentation de Leurs Oeuvres (Furniture and Seating from the 18th century: Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Marks, Plans and Ornamentation of Their Works.) Paris: Éditions "Le Document", 1934. Limited edition #398 fabric hardcover with no dust jacket. French text. 195 pp. A remarkable French book on 18th c furniture...

New York, NY: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Auction Catalog. 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "XVI-XVII Century Furniture and Paintings, ...

- 1920s, Germany - original, no reprint - shows travelling possibilities around the world - marked - includes paper airship - for the condition see the photos jr

An Uncensored anthology gathered from many questionable sources. Illustrated by Joseph Wynn. Published by The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1939. The only copy in leat...

American Historical Views on Staffordshire China by Ellouise Baker. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. 1st Ed hardcover, missing sli...

All About Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators, by Correll & Gosden. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1930. 2nd Ed hardcover, no dust jacket. This is the inside story of the creation of one of the...

The Clock Book by Wallace Nutting. Garden City Publishing Co, Inc., 1935. 2nd Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A comprehensive guide to American and European clocks...

The King's Henchman, a Play in Three Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1927. (D-O date code for April 1939.) First Edition no dust jacket. She ...

Tennis Flicker Book, No.8. Betty Nuthall demonstrates the Drop Volley and Service. Published by SLAZENGERS, Ltd., London. On the rear page of this flicker book is an advert for Sugg Sports Goods, Sheffield, Hull and Nottingham, circa 1930. Produced by Flicker Productions Ltd., 113b Earl's Court Road, London, SW5, phone Frobisher 3277 Flickers teach the game. The sports covered in the first series are as follows:- Cricket Don Bradman...

Author: SPIELMANN, M. H. & Walter Jerrold. Title: Hugh Thomson His Art His Letters His Humour And His Charm. Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1931. Description: Firs...

- 1930s. - By Gustav Adolf Platz. - 6 pages. - Tugendhat, Mies van der Rohe, L.Moholy Nagy, Le Corbusier. - for the condition see the pictures. - jr.

Important and brilliantly edited survey of early modernist furniture and interiors. Written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by Julius Hoffmann in Stuttgart in 1930. Features work by a who's who of the period's top designers, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Donald Deskey, Maurice Dufresne, Paul Laszlo, Jaques Adnet, Rene Herbst, Eugene Printz, Fritz Brehaus, Andre Lurcat...

Author: McLEOD, Edyth Thornton. TIitle: How to Sell Cosmetics. Publisher: NY: The Drug and Cosmetic Industry, 1937. Description: First edition in...

- 1930s - for the condition see the pictures - jr.

- 1934 - ilustrated by L.Sutnar - Václav Petr - Pavel Janák, A. Heythum, L. Žák, K. Honzík, F. Zelenka, H.Kucerová - 80 pages - few drawings by penci...

Seminal 1930 survey of early modernist furniture and interior design projects by known German and other European designers. Approximately 200 different designs featuring about 70 designs by Ludwig Kozma, who designed the striking red and black cover of the hardbound volume. Designers include Augenfeld, Brehaus, Hoffmann, Jeanneret, an early Paul Laszlo in Budapest, Le Corbusier, Sobotka, and Josef Frank, along with a host of lesser-known names. 196 pages, most filled with black and white plates...

A rare set in three volumes of Moss Harris and Sons Catalogue & Sons; Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Arts. From late 16th century-early...

- 1930s - framed - original, no reprint - good original condition ,see the pictures - jr.

Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. "This is the story of Myron Weagle and of America. Myron wanted to create the perfect hotel, a work of art. He worked and dreamed his way from bell boy...

Chapin, Howard M. The Artistic Motives in the United States Flag. Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1930. In original navy cloth and hardcover boards, with gilt titles to front board presented with a matching, new archival slipcase. Presented is The Artistic Motives in the United States by Howard M. Chapin. This book was printed in Providence for The Pavillion...

Byrd, Richard E. Skyward. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931. Octavo. First edition, eleventh printing. In original hardcover boards and original pictorial dust jacket. Presented in a new archival slipcase. This is a 1931 first edition, eleventh printing of Richard Byrd’s Skyward. The book was published in New York by Blue Ribbon Books in 1931. This is the eleventh printing of Skyward, which was first published in 1928. The book is presented in its original hardcover boards and pictorial dust jacket, with a new archival slipcase. Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) is celebrated as a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer...

- 1930s - suitable for framing - original, no reprint - good original condition with some damages, not seen when framed - jr.

- 1930s - Wieland Theater, Olly Polly - Hilde Haagen, Mizzi Freihardt,Menta Breuer, Ludwik Hussnik, Max Christian Willy Mario Neumann, - Karel Kostler - Schillins Wien druck jr

George Stubbs - The Anatomy of the Horse - Heywood Hill, London 1938 - Brown Boards and Cloth. lettering in Gilt on brown leather on spine. Something for every library and a large b...