Britain's Best. A Story of the Olympic Games (Diamond Library, London 1920)   A flimsy story pamphlet with no author noted. The pluck...

John Esteven. Voodoo. A Murder Mystery.(1930) Recording this striking jacket of the UK edition of a book just sold to a 'locked room m...

An article from the long defunct Anglo - Italian Review , October 1918. Edited by Edward Hutton, an English  Italophile who wrote several It...

Stacey Bishop. Death in the Dark (Faber, London 1930) A thriller by the New Jersey born composer George Antheil (1900-1959) under the pse...

Licenced….to save you money. For someone who a few years later was swanning around in a flashy sports car, Austin Powers- like, with mini...

Introduction from The British at Home by Pont of Punch (London 1939) written by T.H. White (author of The Sword in the Stone .) The cartoon...

Sold on eBay in late 2008 (price unrecorded but circa £180) Algernon Cecil. British Foreign Secretaries, 1807 – 1916: Studies in Pers...

Memories Beyond Graceland Gates by Mary Jenkins (cook and housekeeper to Elvis known at Graceland as Mary Langston, her married name) publ...

From the papers of the Cambridge don Dadie Rylands - a courteous letter thanking him for the gift of his latest slim anthology Croaked the R...

Publicity booklet from the tobacconist Bewlay's issued in 1967. Mostly drawings of historical types smoking pipes and taking snuff. The...

Conservative Political Centre pamphlet from 1968. A cultured speech quoting from Shakespeare and Sheridan and even the now slightly f...

A 1938 Christmas article for W.H. Smith's own magazine The Book Window by Collie Knox. Knox was a much published journalist who also wr...

I remember seeing Aleister Crowley walking in Hampstead in the mid 1940s. He was pointed out to me by another boy called John Bunting.Crowle...

The Time Machine by HG Wells. Airmont Classics series paperback N Y 1964. Interesting cover art by an anonymous artist envisaging a tim...

Mass Observation was founded in 1937 by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson, the poet Charles Madge and the film-maker Humphrey Jennings. Their...