Browse by Date—1900–1949

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

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

The Acorn Press, London, 1946

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

J & A Churchill, London, 1915

A record of meetings and rules etc

Presbyterian Church of England, London, 1923

This copy signed by Edwin M Standing, friend, assistant, and biographer of Maria Montessori

Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1920

This edition issued for his production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

Constable, London, 1925

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

Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1926

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

Selfridge & Co, London, 1920

Signed by Mrs Stanley Wrench (Mollie Stanley-Wrench)

Duckworth & Co, London, 1917

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

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

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

T Buncle, Arbroath, 1946

1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo

William Heinemann, London, 1939