Browse by Date—1900–1949

An early issue of the cadets' magazine from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1922

1930, including Harrison Dale's introduction 'The Art of the Ghost Story'

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1930

c1920 a guide to low budget cookery with Hints to the Servantless...

Selfridge & Co, London, 1920

Alexander Werth's journalist's dairy from 1940 and the German invasion of France

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1940

1924, the first Uniform Edition of E M Forster's favourite of his own novels

Edward Arnold, London, 1924

Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)

Duckworth & Co, London, 1917

1944, Helen Drever's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Highlands

The Moray Press, Edinburgh, 1944

1915, an early collection of WW1 verse

Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915

1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird

Methuen, London, 1919

This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine

Faber & Faber, London, 1946

1921, first edition in 2 volumes, both signed by Montessori School founder and educationalist Phyllis Wallbank

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1921

1943, the first US edition of Welsh poet Alun Lewis's wartime short stories

Macmillan, New York, 1943

Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry

S J Looker, Clapton, 1920

1949, first edition, American Communist politician William Z Foster's study of the decline of capitalism

International Publishers, New York, 1949

1931, A Study of their Customs and Beliefs

George G. Harrap, London, 1931

1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower

Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934

Signed by Sydney J Chapman, his 'Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and 'Foreign Work and English Wages' Vol 1: Foreign Competition, and Vol 2: Wages and Employment'

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1904

1933, the first prose work of Caryl Brahms, an irreverent look at married life

Denis Archer, London, 1933

An unused 1936 calendar with 52 witty sayings...

Hills, London, 1936

A 1920s paperback copy of Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1920

1942, once used in The Sanatorium, Liguanea

E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1942

Collected in 1939/40 by a member of the 82nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Ribbons ranging from mid-Victorian to the 1930s

Not Published, United Kingdom, 1940

1943, illustrated with paintings by Fireman Artists

Lindsay Drummond, London, 1943

1934, third edition, a scarce early printing of this edition, illustrated with music supplement

Shapiro, Vallentine & Co, London, 1934

with ephemera from the Imperial War Graves Commission concerning one of the casualties

T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946