Browse by Date—1900–1949

Mother Goose Finger Plays
1915, a charming illustrated guide to finger plays for children
Irene Margaret Cullen
George W Jacobs & Co, Philadelphia, 1915
£16.50
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions

Great War Certificate of Exemption (Military Service Acts, 1916)
For Private Alfred G J Miller of Brighton, a soldier with a history...
War Office
War Office, London, 1916
£30.00
Military & War | Soft Cover | Handwritten

Madame Yevonde signed society wedding bride photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

Madame Yevonde signed society wedding photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

Mr Fortune's Maggot (Signed copy)
This copy owned and signed by E M Forster
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books, London, 1948
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Fiction | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy | First thus

Madame Yevonde signed society portrait photograph
1930, signed in pencil by Yevonde
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1930
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

Second World War naval portrait by Lafayette
Commander Julian Liddell
Lafayette
Lafayette, London, 1940
£20.00
Photography | Soft Cover

Madame Yevonde signed society portrait photograph
c1928, signed in pencil by Yevonde Middleton
Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, London, 1928
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

Bucks: Shell Guide
1936, John Nash text and drawings, and an Edward Bawden advert
John Nash, with notes on monuments by Katherine Esdaile
Batsford, London, 1936
£35.00
Topography & Local Interest | Soft Cover | First Editions

General Strike certificate 1926
issued as acknowledgement for Miss E Johnson acting as a canteen worker
Not stated
London General Omnibus Company, London, 1926
£20.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover

Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Secret Agent
1914, the fourth edition of Conrad's classic novel
Joseph Conrad
Methuen, London, 1914
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

Now Pray We For Our Country
1940, a scarce Eric Knight novel of a mining village in Yorkshire
Eric Knight
Cassell, London, 1940
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Journey's End, A Play in Three Acts
1929, The third printing of the American edition
R C Sherriff
Brentano's, New York, 1929
£15.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions

Dream Children, A Reverie, and The Child Angel, A Dream
1902, two essays from Charles Lamb in an attractive leather binding
Charles Lamb
De La More Press, London, 1902
£30.00
Essays | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound

Bonnie Prince Charlie & Greater Edinburgh
Two small tartan-bound books from The Thistle Library
W T Fyfe, and anonymous
Andersons, Edinburgh, 1920
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings

The Murder in Romney Marsh
1929, a classic crime novel from Edgar Jepson
Edgar Jepson
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1929
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover

Dorothy Wilding, 1928 photograph of Prince George, Duke of Kent
Signed by both Dorothy Wilding and Prince George
Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding, London, 1928
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Photography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

The Starkenden Quest
A classic 1925 Lost Race adventure from Gilbert Collins
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1925
£30.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

The Valley of Eyes Unseen
An early lost race novel set in the Himalayas
Gilbert Collins
Duckworth & Co, London, 1923
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco (with signed letter)
With a handwritten letter from R B Cunningham Graham pasted in
R B Cunningham Graham
Duckworth & Co, London, 1928
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Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies

The Dark Island
1934, a Hogarth Press first edition of Vita Sackville-West's novel
Vita Sackville-West, with map drawn by Ben Nicolson
The Hogarth Press, London, 1934
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Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology
1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Photograph album of Russian tanks made in Smethwick, September 1941
Valentine Mk2 tanks being unveiled in front of the Russian ambassador, Ivan Maisky, and Harold Macmillan
Not stated
Not stated, Smethwick, 1941
£200.00
Military & War | Hard Cover

Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions