1621. Ruttledge, Hugh.

Everest 1933.

Second Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1934. 18 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 390 pages. 59 plates. 4 Maps, including 2 fold-out geological maps at rear showing ‘Drainage Areas of the Arun, Tista, and Ammu Chu’ and `Mount Everest and the group of Chomo Lungma’. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Professionally rebound and strengthened binding. New endpapers. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional faint foxing.

1622. MORSE, Harriet Klamroth.

Elizabethan Pageantry. A pictorial survey of costume and its commentators from c. 1566-1620.

First Edition. London. The Studio Ltd. 1934. 20 cm x 29 cm. 128 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. For example, cover and spine of dustjacket is slightly worn and rubbed.

1623. Royal Academy of Arts.

Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860. Patrols Their Majesties the King and Queen. Short Catalogue.

First Edition. London, Burlington House Piccadilly, 1934. 14cm x 21cm. 320, XXXVI, 4 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1624. Croce, Benedetto.

Nuovi Saggi sul Goethe.

First Edition / Primera Edizione. Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1934. 20cm x 12.7cm. XI, 189 pages. Original illustrated softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1625. Wells, H.G.

Experiment in Autobiography – Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866).

Volume II (of II). London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. / The Cresset Press Ltd., 1934. 13 cm x 20 cm. VIII, 423 pages [being 417 – 840 of complete work]. Original Hardcover. 44 black and white drawings and photographs of Wells, his wife and other writers, throughout book. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns only.

1626. Cahill, Holger and Barr, Alfred H.

Art in America in Modern Times. [With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein – Photography in the United States / With an essay by Henry-Russell Hitchcock: Henry Robson Richardson – The Development of the Skyscraper]. Edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr Jr.

First Edition. London, Methuen and Co Ltd, 1934. 24cm x 32cm. 110 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Titlepage with faint staining only. Otherwise overall in very good condition with only very minor signs of wear to the binding.

1627. Werner, E.T.C.

Myths & Legends of China [Myths of Epidemics / Myths of Medicine / Myths of Exorcism etc.] With Thirty-Two Illustrations in Colours by Chinese Artists.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1934. Octavo. Colour-Frontispiece, 454 pages including an excellent Index. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The rare, original dustjacket torn and with a larger part of the jacket missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1628. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

1629. Jex-Blake, A.J. [editor]

Gardening in East Africa. A Practical Handbook by Members of the Kenya Horticultural Society and of the Kenya and Uganda Civil Services.

London, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co, 1934. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 330 pages. 6 colour illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Maps on pastedowns and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean.

1630. Shaw, [George] Bernard.

The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw.

London, Odhams Press, 1934. Large Octavo. VIII, 1219 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Besides some minor foxxing to the edges this monumental publication is in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private giftinscription to Naturalist Norman Hickin on the pastedown.