Browse by Date—1900–1949

A scarce Great War novel from Captain C A L Brownlow

Methuen, London, 1918

1916, signed by the author's wife. A selection of writings from J E G De Montmorency, some of a supernatural flavour

C North, The Blackheath Press, London, 1916

Engel's collection of essays on the housing

International Publishers, New York, 1946

Frank Kendon's memoirs of growing up in rural Kent in the 1890s and 1900s

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1930

An early collection of verse from Samuel J Looker

The National Labour Press Ltd, Manchester, 1916

Signed by S P B Mais with a lengthy dedication (1924)

Grant Richards, London, 1924

T P Ellis's essays and articles, many with a Welsh flavour

The Welsh Outlook Press, Newtown, 1936

"Une Page de la Persecution de L'Hellenisme en Turquie", a rare protest document detailing the treatment of the ethnic Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.

P Thevoz, Paris, 1920

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

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