Browse by Date—1900–1949

with the bookplate of Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel, owner of Nymans in Sussex and father of Oliver Messel

W B Saunders, Philadelphia, 1948

with the bookplate of Ivor Novello

Mercure de France, Paris, 1912

Eadweard Muybridge's Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Muscular Actions

Chapman & Hall, London, 1922

A rare Eden Phillpotts fantasy; superb dustwrapper art

Hutchinson, London, 1936

A biography of a forgotten soldier of the English Civil War

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1907

Wrey Gardiner's first novel

The Falcon Press, London, 1948

Chemistry papers by Richard Henry Vernon (1885–1921) with photo portrait

Transactions of the Chemical Society, London, 1920

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

Crime classic with Superintendent William Saville vs Arch-criminal Wu Fang

Brentano's, London, 1929

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

Christmas gift to an officer of the Grenadier Guards, killed in action in Monte Cassino, 1943

John Miles, London, 1938

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

A Re-Formulation of Astrological Concepts and Ideals, in Terms of Contemporary Psychology and Philosophy

Lucis Publishing, New York, 1936

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

Crime stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Faber & Faber, London, 1949

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

Henley, W T, London, 1937

A Modern Book of Wonders, Miracles, Freaks, Monstrosities, and Almost-Impossibilities, Written, Illustrated and Proved by Robert L Ripley

Stanley Paul, London, 1935

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

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1918