Browse by Date—1900–1949

Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani

Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912

Winifred Holtby's tale from the Radio Times, illustrated by Batt

Lovat Dickson, London, 1933

1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga

Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944

1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties

Jonathan Cape, London, 1942

One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics

Stanley Paul, London, 1947

G K Chesterton's work of Christian apologetics

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930

c1930, with some charming hand drawn illustrations

Not Published, 1930

This copy in the rare original dustwrapper

Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1907

With Demon's Head bookseller ticket from L Davenport

Edward Bagshawe, London, 1932

Sir Charles Portal's warning to his newly commissioned officers...

Royal Air Force, London, 1942

1924, third edition of Rawlinson's account of the Zeppelin and Gotha raids on London

Andrew Melrose, London, 1924

A Record of the Old Buildings and Associations of the City

Methuen, London, 1914

1938, signed by Gregorio Prieto

The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938

1948, Maurice Buxton Forman's comprehensive selection

Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1948

1901, a rare first edition of Charles Aubert's book on mime

E Meuriot, Paris, 1901

1924/1925, Il Piacere dell'Onestà; Pensaci, Giacomino!; and La Vita che ti Diedi

Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze (Florence), 1924

Joseph Baker's 1937 book hot on the heels of the Public Order Act 1936 and the British Union of Fascists

H A Just & Co, London, 1937

1938, an unusual French language text book centred around the Spanish Civil War

Macmillan, London, 1938

La Vierge et les Sonnets, De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir, and Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent...

Various, Paris, 1919

Mademoiselle Cloque, La Becquee, L'Enfant a la Balustrade

Calmann Levy, Paris, 1925

c1923, with tips on electioneering etc

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1923

A rare 1921 novel of industrial action and its consequences

Robert Hayes, London, 1921

1923, the second UK printing of Karel Capek's play that gave us the word "robot"

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1923

Taken at Mingaladon Airfield (Rangoon) and showing Esler Dening, Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata and Rear Admiral Kaigun Chujo Chudo

Not stated, Rangoon (Burma), 1945

Signed by the Commanding Officer, Charles Marion, and 17 of his officers to a visiting British Army officer

Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919