Under £500

Memorial poster, 330 x 430 mm, featuring an image of the Lusitania captioned: 'Torpedoed and sunk by the HUNS of the Irish Coast on Friday May 7th 195 with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including many women and children.'; silver gilt frame: 420 x 510 mm.

Memorial poster, 330 x 450 mm, featuring a large image of the Titanic leaving harbour, captioned: 'In Memoriam, ''Titanic,'' sunk on her maiden voyage off Cape Race, April 15th, 1912, the most appalling disaster in Maritime History, with a loss of over 1,500 lives.' Some spotting, otherwise in good condition; silver gilt frame: 400 x 530 mm.

First edition, first impression, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's full black morocco, eclipse motif to boards and titles to spine in red, matching cloth slipcase, fine.

First edition, first impression, trade issue, inscribed by the author; large 8vo; trivial spotting, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, boards decorated in blind, title to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, tape stain to front free endpaper, spine very rolled; a bright, sharp copy in the price-clipped dust jacket, with a minor piece of internal repair.

Limited edition, number 7 of 250 copies; 4to; half-title, mounted colour frontispiece, additional plates throughout (some colour and mounted, some photogravure), captioned tissue guards, maps, text clean and bright; later half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, upper cover slightly sunned, spine slightly faded, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, an excellent copy.

First English edition; 4to (305 x 230 mm); illustrated with colour strip cartoons, occasional scattered foxing, more so to title, otherwise light; publisher's laminated, pictorial boards with cloth spine, a little wear to extremities, more so to the upper corners, otherwise a good copy; [ii] + 61 + [1]pp