Browse by Date—1900–1949

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

Framed and glazed, showing a painter and his dog

Not Published, Great Bardfield, Essex, 1920

1909, a lovely copy of the second impression of E M Forster's third novel

Edward Arnold, London, 1909

1908, an early edition of Gummere's study of evolution of poetry as a social institution

Macmillan, New York, 1908

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

The Beaumont Press, London, 1925

1929, first US edition of George M Stratton's book

D Appleton, New York, 1929

1926, limited edition, with 24 full page woodcuts of the Colleges etc

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926

1929, A Picture of the Great Events which Took Place in Unconquered Lakeland during Norman Times

Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1929

1944, a rare first edition of Frank E Warner's call for natural ethics

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1944

1890, a pocket edition of Victor Hugo's poems in a full leather binding

G Charpentier, Paris, 1906

1920, a nice copy of this profusely illustrated French medical dictionary

Librairie Larousse, Paris, 1920

1928, signed and dedicated to his publisher Frere-Reeves of Heinemann

Not Published, London, 1928

1933, Christopher Morley's novel of biography and American life

Faber & Faber, London, 1933

1908, 5th edition. Emile Verhaeren's Symbolist poetry, limited to 19 copies on Holland paper.

Societe du Mercure de France, Paris, 1908

1936, Jean Cocteau's journey in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg, with the original errata slip.

Librairie Gallimard / NRF, Paris, 1936