Browse by Date—1900–1949

1927, the first appearance of Winnie the Pooh, and a very clean copy

Methuen, London, 1927

1945, including Anna Kavan and Julian Maclaren-Ross

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945

1941, Tom Wintringham's account of his time with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

Penguin Books, London, 1941

A signed coloured etching of the booksellers / Bouquinistes of Paris by Marcel Julien Baron

Not stated, Paris, 1947

1937 edition in dustwrapper

Jonathan Cape, London, 1937

1932, first UK edition of Maurice Dekobra's Minuit... Place Pigalle

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1932

1922, C E Montague's articles of disillusionment over the Great War

Chatto & Windus, London, 1922

Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations

Printed for the Author, 1906

c1928, signed in pencil by Bassano

Bassano, London, 1928

1926. The autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1926

1948, Peter Taylor's first collection of short stories

Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1948

Lillian Smith's debut novel of interracial love

The Cresset Press, London, 1945

1949, Cliff Bere's impassioned call for Welsh independence

Welsh Republican Publications, Glaslwyn, Cwmoernant, 1949

1937, a novel in the footsteps of Erskine Childers' Dulcibella and the Frisian Islands

William Blackwood & Sons, London, 1937

1938, a first printing of A G Macdonell's hilarious spoof memoir of a complete rotter

Macmillan, London, 1938

Chiefly of the Perpendicular Period. 1932, first edition in dustwrapper

University Press, Cambridge, 1932

1945, Hugh Dowding's second title on Spiritualism and Life after Death

Rider & Company, London, 1945

1914, a first edition of the English actresses tour of the Lake District

John Murray, London, 1914

1912, Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in a fine blue half-leather binding by Bumpus

Cassell, London, 1912

1910, Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems printed from an illuminated manuscript by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Siegle Hill and Co, London, 1910

1917, Edmond Holmes' discussion of the inner life in terms of education and development

Constable, London, 1917

Rene Boylesve's tale of adolescence, with woodcuts by Paul Baudier

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1928, Marguerite Audoux's tale of rural France in the early twentieth century

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

1929, Claude Anet's love story with woodcuts by Angelina Beloff

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1929

1928, Myriam Harry's novel of travel in Ceylon, illustrated by Pierre Falke

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928