Browse by Date—1900–1949

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

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

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

John Murray, London, 1914

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

1928, with 27 woodcuts by Gerard Cochet

Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1928

The students's handbook to the working, rules and ways of the university

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914

1949, first edition, one of Michael Home's Breckland novels

Methuen, London, 1949

1911, first edition, 'A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education'

Constable, London, 1911

Peter Goffin's 1946 study on the philosophy of art

Lindsay Drummond, London, 1946

1947, A selection from the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

International Publishers, New York, 1947

1939, a miscellany of Stephen Leacock's humorous writings

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1939

1921, first edition, a series of brief art lessons from Louise Hervieu

Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1921

1920, an early hardback edition of Arthur Wesley Dow's classic instructional art book

Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1920

1946, Hellmuth Weissenborn's charming illustrated tale of a rumbunctious raven

The Acorn Press, London, 1946

An early printing of Karel and Josef Capek's play (1924)

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1924

An immense round up of doctors etc for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

J & A Churchill, London, 1915