Browse by Date—1900–1949

1947, a second edition of this important Gnostic scripture

John M Watkins, London, 1947

An early novel from John Galsworthy, writing as John Sinjohn

Duckworth & Co, London, 1900

Ronald Knox's translation of the New Testament

Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1945

Collected in 1939/40 by a member of the 82nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Ribbons ranging from mid-Victorian to the 1930s

Not Published, United Kingdom, 1940

First edition, collected and arranged for voice and piano by Alfred Moffat

Augener Ltd, London, 1933

Taken in 1942 and signed by both Bevin and Coster

Howard Coster, London, 1942

1933, first edition. E Arnot Robertson's novel of a Suffolk family in the early 20th century

Jonathan Cape, London, 1933

Signed and dedicated by the translator Heinz Norden

Victor Gollancz, London, 1943

1937, signed by Ernest Laurie-Long

Ward Lock & Co, London, 1937

Signed by Edward Charles, a fragment from an unfinished pageant

Joiner and Steele Ltd, London, 1931

This copy signed by poet Humbert Wolfe

The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1929

Poems in the Scottish dialect. Signed by Eric Linklater and Allan C Fraser

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1949

A first edition hardback describing the workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938

1920. Paul Claudel's French poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hachette

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920

1914, a French edition of Claudel's The Tidings Brought to Mary, in a half-leather binding by Hachette

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914

1937, third impression. A thriller from the "German Edgar Wallace"...

Hutchinson, London, 1937

Signed by J Murray Allison, his essays on the art of advertising

Cecil Palmer, London, 1926

This copy signed by Lewis Kennedy Morse to Jose Castillejo

Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1916

Viscount Cecil's writings, this copy signed by Scottish philosopher and politician G F Barbour

Philip Allan, London, 1928

Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington

Macmillan, London, 1937

c1933, Odham's edition of E A Poe's stories, in the original dustwrapper

Odhams Press, London, 1933

1930, first edition. This copy signed by a distinguished RAF officer of the Second World War

Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1930

Great War 1915, the First Battle of Ypres

Worcestershire County Council, Worcester, 1915

1926, signed by Edward Sackville-West, his first novel

William Heinemann, London, 1926

Framed and glazed, showing a painter and his dog

Not Published, Great Bardfield, Essex, 1920