Browse by Date—1900–1949

1909, an early edition of C H Senn's popular book

The Food & Cookery Publishing Agency, London, 1909

1939 (3rd printing), Winston Churchill's newspaper writings in the years before the outbreak of war

Thornton Butterworth, London, 1939

1904, first edition, a wealth of information on postage stamps

Henry J Drane, London, 1904

2nd impression of C E Montague's powerful Great War novel in the original wrapper

Chatto & Windus, London, 1926

c1900 by Kwako, sold through J B Millet Co,. Boston

Original Artwork, Japan, 1900

1930, a scarce novel of the French Foreign Legion

Boots Pure Drug Co [Printed by Collins], Nottingham & London, 1930

1903, Beatrice and Sidney Webb's history from 1700 to 1830

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903

1936, first edition, with thirteen maps

Sifton Praed & Co, London, 1936

1931, Erroll Sherson's recipes and tips for all manner of vegetables

Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1931

1942, a selection from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

Verlag Benno Schwabe & Co, Basel, 1942

1919, first edition, a history of the Naval operations out of the Essex port

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919

1909, a first edition of Edith Nesbit's collection of short stories

George Allen, London, 1909

1942, a first printing of Elizabeth Goudge's charming tale

University of London Press, London, 1942

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

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

Printed for the Author(s), 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

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