Browse by Date—1900–1949

Given as a gift from H.M.S. Caballa in 1943 and signed by 5 VAD nurses

William Heinemann, London, 1935

A rare anti-war novel from the German trenches of the Western Front

Putnam, London, 1931

Third impression, with decorations by the author

Grayson & Grayson, London, 1934

from athletics to yachting, with super adverts

The Royal Air Force Sports Board, London, 1937

Upton Sinclair's novel of co-operatives and self-help communities

T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1948

An important Great War history, complete in two volumes

Hutchinson, London, 1919

Twenty-one of H Russell Wakefield's chilling tales

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932

Signed by William H Cummings, author and professor of music

Novello and Company, London, 1912

A rare second impression from 1937; David Jones' magnificent Great War verse and prose.

Faber & Faber, London, 1937

Ian Hamilton's account of the Russo-Japanese War, with a .T.L.S. mentioning his decorations from the Manchurian War

Edward Arnold, London, 1905

Signed by John Lawson

The Epworth Press, London, 1948

A staff magazine for W T Henley, eight issues in one, 1937/38

Henley, W T, London, 1937

Being Notes Topographical and Historical Relating to the Streets and Principal Buildings in the City of London

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1918

First edition, second state, but a reading copy only

George Bell & Sons, London, 1908

Signed by Jean Faraday Davies, who served at Bletchley Park in WW2

Faber & Faber, London, 1944

with the bookplate of Felix Dennis, co-editor of Oz, poet, publisher...

Cassell, London, 1940

Somerset Maugham's comedy in three acts

William Heinemann, London, 1923

14th century alliterative poem of the Arthurian legend

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1900

Published during the Great War

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1916

A Memoir of Philip Heseltine

Jonathan Cape, London, 1938

Classic Golden Age crime

Methuen, London, 1931

1901; including Torpedo Boats and Torpedo Boat Destroyers

Engineering Employers' Federation, London, 1901

with a fine bookplate by Richard Osmond for John Theodore Radclyffe Prestige of Bourne House, Bishopsbourne, Kent (1945)

Faber & Faber, London, 1935

Its Scientific and Imaginative Meaning

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1910

A rare first UK printing

Victor Gollancz, London, 1938