Browse by Date—1900–1949

John Ruskin's defence of (then) modern painters, Complete in five volumes.

J M Dent, London, 1906

Heilprin's study of the 1902 volcanic eruption

J B Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1903

An incredibly scarce commemorative album with 10 hand-painted gouache allegorical illustrations representing the Great War Allied forces.

M Pozzi, Paris, 1917

Delightful red leather copies 1926 & 1921

Macmillan, London, 1926

Two early novels from C Day Lewis

Jonathan Cape, London, 1936

A 1944 Italian political discussion on Christian Democracy and Marxism

Il Segno, Rome, 1944

for the use of Stewards and Cooks of Cargo Vessels

Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1941

A P Herbert's fictitious law cases from Punch

Methuen, London, 1935

The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Crime and Punishment and The House of the Dead

J M Dent, London, 1931

A Golden Age crime set at the BBC's headquarters

Rich & Cowan, London, 1935

with additions throughout the early 1940s, from London station no 60

London County Council, London, 1938

A description of Atlantis by psychic projection

Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1944

This copy has been signed and inscribed by Italia Conti, the actress and founder of the acting school

George G. Harrap, London, 1918

Conan Doyle's Great War history with 44 maps and charts

Geoffrey Bles, London, 1928

Second issue of Edward Thomas' semi-autobiographical novel

Duckworth & Co, London, 1913

Limited edition (21/100), bibliographic details of Henry Rider Haggard's works

The Mitre Press, London, 1939

Four issues, each with a Patrick Leigh Fermor piece

John Murray, London, 1949

A Well Full of Leaves, The Basilisk of St James's, and Good Beds-Men Only, Stories of Outsiders

Chapman & Hall, London, 1943

The first UK edition of Bloy's novel of the 1880s French art & literary scene

Sheed and Ward, London, 1939

Signed with notes by the illustrator, Lancelot Speed

Seeley & Co, London, 1902

Leonov's novel of peasant life in the Russian Revolution

Hutchinson, London, 1947

Cummings' autobiographical novel of his Great War captivity

The Modern Library, New York, 1949

A classic thriller from Ursula Curtiss

Evans Brothers, London, 1949

1913, a lovely pocket book of Christina Rossetti's poetry

Henry Frowde, London, 1913

An early novel from George Gissing

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1914