Browse by Date—1900–1949

An early printing of P G Wodehouse's first novel

A & C Black, London, 1924

Signed by P C Wren, the 1927 limited deluxe edition, illustrated by Helen McKie

John Murray, London, 1927

Signed by Susanne R Day, Irish feminist and playwright

Methuen, London, 1933

1905, a pocket book on railway staff's discounts

William Kemp, Manchester, 1905

Pagan England, Catholic England: 1 The Dark Ages B.C. 55 to A.D 1066

Methuen, London, 1925

Signed by the poet, Edward Thompson, and including some of his war verse

Oxford University Press, London, 1944

1909, a novel of Dante and Beatrice

Hurst & Blackett, London, 1909

An examination of Nietzsche's work in light of the Great War

Edward Arnold, London, 1915

A 1915 repudiation of German atrocities in the Great War

Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld & Leipzig, 1915

Signed and dedicated by Frederic Villiers

Cassell, London, 1902

Signed by Eden Phillpotts, his poetry, limited to 110 copies

Ernest Benn, London, 1932

Stephen King-Hall's first book, his service in the Great War aboard HMS Southampton

Methuen, London, 1919

c1907, 30 humorous illustrations

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1907

The first US edition of Valentine Williams' Mannequin in an original 1930 dustwrapper

Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1930

In a fine half-vellum binding by Truslove and Hanson, owned & signed by Mary Ashley

Country Life, London, 1905

What German Conservatives thought about the Reichstag fire (1933)

German Information Bureau, London, 1933

The second book of Aphraar's journey on the other side.

Rider & Co, London, 1920

First US edition of Carson McCullers' classic

Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1946

Three W H Davies poetry books, all in an attractive patterned paper binding

Jonathan Cape, London, 1922

In a delightfully decorative binding

George Bell & Sons, London, 1905

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

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

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

George G. Harrap, London, 1918