Browse by Date—1900–1949

Signed by R Emmet Kennedy, his verbal record of African-American spirituals, stories etc from Louisiana

Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1924

1946, with sixteen original lithographs by Mona Moore

Frederick Muller, London, 1946

with illustrations by Beryl Ash

Hutchinson, London, 1935

with thousands of entries for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

J & A Churchill, London, 1915

Hitler's 1940 Reichstag speech, one of a number dropped over England in 1940 by the Luftwaffe

Not stated, Germany, 1940

1916, including Chekhov's The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Wedding; The Bear; A Tragedian; The Anniversary; On the High Road; The Proposal

Duckworth & Co, London, 1916

1933, a work of speculative fiction by W Barnard Faraday

Denis Archer, London, 1933

1920, along with Stevenson's Other Fables

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1920

Arthur Bryant's copy of C H Sorley's verse (1916)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1916

An Anthology of Verse by Australian Servicemen (1944)

Georgian House, Melbourne, 1944

Alun Lewis's first book of poetry, with the bookplate of Vivian de Sola Pinto

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1944

including Aleister Crowley who attended 1891–1892

Malvern Advertiser, Malvern, 1905

1935, savoury recipes from famous society hostesses

Chapman & Hall, London, 1935

First US edition of D H Lawrence's novel set in Western Australia

Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1924

This copy signed by American writer and anthologist Edward J O'Brien

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1914

Lady Troubridge's classic text, rare in its complete two volumes with the original wrappers

The Associated Bookbuyers' Company, London, 1926

1930s edition, with 24 plates by Margaret Tarrant

Ward Lock & Co, London, 1935

This copy signed by British author Rumer Godden

The Viking Press, New York, 1939

1933, rules, regulations, records etc...

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1933

1919, a first printing of the fifth volume in Dorothy M Richardson's Pilgrimage sequence

Duckworth & Co, London, 1919

Charles Jackson's 1946 novel, first major American novel to deal with the theme of homosexuality

Rinehart & Co, New York, 1946

David Lloyd George's thoughts and theories on the Treaty of Versailles, and the years after the Great War

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1923

1928, a novel of the Russian Revolution

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1928

1931, a first printing of the tenth volume in Dorothy M Richardson's Pilgrimage sequence

Duckworth & Co, London, 1931

French author Jean Damase's first novel

Duckworth & Co, London, 1932