Browse by Date—1900–1949

1947, a town planning guide written in the aftermath of the Second World War

HMSO, London, 1947

1912, with 28 colour plates by Charles Robinson

Blackie & Son, London, 1912

1932, an early edition of John Buchan's thriller, in the original dustwrapper

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1932

1915, tenth impression in a scarce original dustwrapper.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915

With two original freehand pencil plans/sketches executed on the endpapers of Kipling’s Life’s Handicap (1913)

Macmillan, London, 1913

1907, the second edition of Rev W Tuckwell's Oxford memoirs

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1907

1934, pioneering conservationist F W Champion's description and photography of jungle animals

Chatto & Windus, London, 1934

This copy signed by Scottish journalist James Bone to Scottish composer Iain Hamilton

James MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1905

Rebound in quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin

Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923

1903, the second edition of T Rice Holmes' history

Macmillan, London, 1903

Signed by Bertram Park, c1920, a lovely image of the author of The Enchanted April

Bertram Park, London, 1920

1944, journalist 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

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

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

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