Browse by Date—1900–1949

1944, correspondent A D Divine's account of the Tunisian campaign in WW2

Collins, London, 1944

1942, including work by Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Barnett Freedman, Graham Sutherland etc

National Gallery, London, 1942

Helen Thomas's memoir of her relationship with Edward Thomas, this is the first printing before pages 53–57 were cancelled

William Heinemann, London, 1926

Oliver W F Lodge's poetry pamphlet, this copy signed by Trevelyan to Gordon Bottomley

Oliver W F Lodge, Holmbury St Mary, 1938

Quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin

Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923

November 1915, a rare original print trade journal, with superb advertisments

Hicks, Wilkinson & Sears, London, 1915

1949, Rudolf Hostettler's collection of typefaces. This copy owned by Stewart R Valdar of Hampstead

fgm-Books, St Gallen & London, 1949

The first six issues for 1945 of this American industrial journal, with superb adverts

Practical Publications, Inc., Indianapolis, 1945

Signed by W D Bushell to the Rector of Orton Waterville, and with a letter from Nikolaus Pevsner

Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1948

1934, the fifteenth volume in the Centenary Edition of Leo Tolstoy's works

The Tolstoy Society / OUP, London, 1934

The first Uniform Edition of E M Forster's favourite of his own novels

Edward Arnold, London, 1924

A French Great War history, signed by the author, Jean de Pierrefeu, to J J Frappa.

L'Edition Francais Illustree, Paris, 1920

1940 hardback edition, with a photograph of the signing

Michael Joseph, London, 1940

Possibly a gift in the weeks after the liberation of Florence in August 1944 in the Second World War

Giulio Giannini, Florence, 1944

First edition, 1919, with colour plates and trench humour

Cassell, London, 1919

Nottidge MacNamara's study of characteristics through the human skull

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1900

c1940, in a dustwrapper designed by Edie Morris

Seeley Service, London, 1940

1903, in a full leather prize binding from the Mary Datchelor Girl's School in Camberwell

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903

1938, signed by Gregorio Prieto

The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938

1937, signed by H E Bates with Agnes Miller Parker's glorious wood engravings

Victor Gollancz, London, 1937

An early Lawrence Durrell collection of poetry, owned by his friend and fellow Cairo poet

Faber & Faber, London, 1946

Marcu Beza's examination of Roumania's pagan rites and their continuation into the twentieth century

J M Dent, London, 1928

A classic of Japanese folklore. translated by Judith Gautier, and with 12 colour plates by R Isayama

Editions de la Phosphatine Falieres, Paris, 1900

Signed by Bertram Park, c1920

Bertram Park, London, 1920

1939, a rare copy gifted from Alun Lewis to his wife, Gweno, in Christmas 1942, just before he embarked for India in WW2

William Heinemann, London, 1939