Browse by Date—1900–1949

1921, first edition, Norman Douglas's travels around Italy

Chapman & Hall, London, 1921

1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928

1929, a collection of 24 images on card by Flora White, a rough copy of a rare title.

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929

1946, hand-drawn, watercolour (with maid), and technical plan

Not Published, Essex, 1947

1946, hand-drawn and hand-coloured, a quiet country cottage with large writing room

Not Published, Essex, 1946

1947, hand-drawn, with floorplan and two dancers in evening wear

Not Published, Essex, 1947

1942 hardback edition of J B S Haldane's Muirhead lectures on political philosophy of 1938

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942

1912, hardback, a first edition on dancing, ballet, dancers, morris dancing...

Grant Richards, London, 1912

1903, the first of Kathleen Ainslie's little picture books about the two Dutch peg dolls

Castell Brothers, London, 1903

1905, first edition of the novel H G Wells's considered his favourite

Macmillan, London, 1905

A Great War French WW1 regimental history including Roll of Honour

Libraire Chapelot, Paris, 1919

A 1919 Great War French regimental history with Roll of Honour

Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919

1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel

Martin Secker, London, 1928

First edition, seven charming stories by Robert Tredinnick, aka Uncle Robert

Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1944

c1910, in a full leather binding with beautifully illuminated pages

J Depelley, Limoges, 1910

The first issue of the magazine for the German WW1 camp's internees

T A Barton, Berlin, 1915

1917, first UK edition, containing four of Lord Dunsany's plays

T Fisher Unwin, London, 1917

1914, first edition, with 76 colour facsimile illustrations of the complete tapestry

Chatto & Windus, London, 1914

1925, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's verse, including some war poetry

The Beaumont Press, London, 1925

Great War verse, 1916, the "Trench Edition" including Charles Hamilton Sorley, W N Hodgson, and Julian Grenfell

Erskine Macdonald, London, 1916

1921, the Hams, the Hithes, the Stones and the Tons...

South Eastern Gazette, Maidstone, 1921

1939, first edition, a horse's story through the Great War

Collins, London, 1939

2nd printing, Arthur Ransome's account of Russian life after the October Revolution of 1917

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1919

with biographical records and photographs of Harrovians killed in the First World War

Harrow School / Philip Lee Warner, London, 1920

1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1906