Browse by Date—1900–1949

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

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

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

William Heinemann, London, 1939

Three volumes, an important resource for historians and genealogists

Kelly's Directories, London, 1916

1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens

Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931

1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press

The Beaumont Press, London, 1930

1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry

Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937

Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943

Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert

Methuen, London, 1931

A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930

Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book

James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940

1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland

Heath Cranton, London, 1939

including an article on Lithobolio, a New England Poltergeist of 1692

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1937