Moore, George.

Hail and Farewell: Salve.

First Edition. London, William Heinemann, 1912. 13cm x 19.5cm. 379 pages. Original embossed hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some mild foxing.

Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé).

Ruffino &c.

Popular Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1912. 18 x 12 cm. 309 pages plus 32 pages publishers list incl. a colour plate showing the poet Maud Muller. Original decorated red cloth. Hard cover. Black title to front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges dust dulled and slightly foxed. Occasional foxing within, otherwise internally clean.

Conan Doyle, Arthur.

The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone of the “Daily Gazette”.

First Edition. London, New York & Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, ND [1912]. c. 18 x 12 cm. vii, 319 pages. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. With eight B&W Plates and a Map. Original blue cloth. White title and gilt decoration on front board. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Spine faded (see images). Front free end paper missing. Names of previous owners on verso to frontispiece. Internally clean.

Colum, Padraic (Introduction).

Broad-Sheet Ballads. Being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs with an Introduction by Padraic Colum.

[First Edition]. Dublin and London, Maunsel & Company, [1913]. xvi, 76 pages. With a frontispiece reduced from a drawing by Jack B. Yeats. Original green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine. Blind line decorations. Very good condition. Minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occasional foxing, otherwise internally clean. A nice copy.

Cowan, Samuel K.

From Ulster’s Hill. A Book of Verse.

[First Edition]. Belfast, M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr, The Linenhall Press, 1913. 18 x 12 cm. 111 pages. Original cloth hard cover with gilt title and decorations on front board. Very good condition. Rubbed bumped and age darkened binding. A list of names and numbers is neatly written on front free end papers. Minor foxing to a few pages. Dust dulled but internally clean.

Service, Robert W.

Songs of a Sourdough / Ballads of a Cheechako / Rhymes of a Rolling Stone.

Three volumes. London, T. Fisher Unwin, ND, 1913 & 1916. 19 x 13 cm. 109, 140 & 189 pages. Red cloth hard covers with gilt titles and decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Neat gift inscriptions of the time.

MacGrath, Harold.

Pidgin Island. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown.

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1914. 12.5 x 19cm. 341 pages, with plates. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Very good condition, some shelf wear to spine. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

Somerset Maugham, W.

Of Human Bondage. A Novel.

Second Impression. September 1915. London, William Heinemann, 1915. 19 x 12 cm. 648 pages. Original cloth with gilt decorations and gilt title on front board and spine. Professionally rebacked using the original boards and spine in 2020. New end papers. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Mild staining to boards (see images). Age darkened. Internally clean. A solid copy.

Grantham, Sybil.

Silent Songs.

First edition. London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1915. 16 x 10 cm. vii, 119 pages. Small vignette on title page. Contemporary pale white cloth, hard cover with dark green title on front board and spine. See images. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and mildly foxed. Name of previous owner on front free end paper, dated 1917. Internally very mildly foxed otherwise clean. A very nice copy of this scarce book.

Hesse, Hermann.

Knulp. Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps von Hermann Hesse.

First Edition. Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1915. 17 x 12 cm. 145 pages. New (2024) brown cloth. Hard cover. Original front cover has been cut to size and used on new front board (see images). Gilt title on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Small stamp with name and address of previous owner on half title. Internally clean. Faint damp staining. Mild shelf wear. Printed on ‘war paper’. A nice little item.