Browse by Date—1900–1949

Rebound in quarter leather, with many adverts and articles on the American printing industry and relating to Franklin

Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1923

1944, journalist A D Divine's account of the Tunisian campaign in WW2

Collins, London, 1944

1942, including work by Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Barnett Freedman, Graham Sutherland etc

National Gallery, London, 1942

Helen Thomas's memoir of her relationship with Edward Thomas, this is the first printing before pages 53–57 were cancelled

William Heinemann, London, 1926

Oliver W F Lodge's poetry pamphlet, this copy signed by Trevelyan to Gordon Bottomley

Oliver W F Lodge, Holmbury St Mary, 1938

November 1915, a rare original print trade journal, with superb advertisments

Hicks, Wilkinson & Sears, London, 1915

1949, Rudolf Hostettler's collection of typefaces. This copy owned by Stewart R Valdar of Hampstead

fgm-Books, St Gallen & London, 1949

The first six issues for 1945 of this American industrial journal, with superb adverts

Practical Publications, Inc., Indianapolis, 1945

The first Uniform Edition of E M Forster's favourite of his own novels

Edward Arnold, London, 1924

A French Great War history, signed by the author, Jean de Pierrefeu, to J J Frappa.

L'Edition Francais Illustree, Paris, 1920

Nottidge MacNamara's study of characteristics through the human skull

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1900

c1940, in a dustwrapper designed by Edie Morris

Seeley Service, London, 1940

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

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

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

Grant Richards, London, 1924

"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

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