Browse by Date—1900–1949

1938, signed by Gregorio Prieto

The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938

1937, signed by H E Bates with Agnes Miller Parker's glorious wood engravings

Victor Gollancz, London, 1937

An early Lawrence Durrell collection of poetry, owned by his friend and fellow Cairo poet

Faber & Faber, London, 1946

Marcu Beza's examination of Roumania's pagan rites and their continuation into the twentieth century

J M Dent, London, 1928

A classic of Japanese folklore. translated by Judith Gautier, and with 12 colour plates by R Isayama

Editions de la Phosphatine Falieres, Paris, 1900

1939, a rare copy gifted from Alun Lewis to his wife, Gweno, in Christmas 1942, just before he embarked for India in WW2

William Heinemann, London, 1939

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