"A. J. B. from Winston S. C. " - A full, six-volume, jacketed British first edition, first printing set of The World Crisis, the penultimate volume inscribed and dated six days prior to publication by Winston S. Churchill to former Prime Minister Arthur J. Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty when Churchill was forced to resign and "whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics" Churchill "enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years".

The 1940 Keystone Library issue of Churchill’s autobiography of his early life, inscribed and dated by Churchill in July 1940 to an 11-year-old boy who preferred to “be bombed to fragments than leave England” and hand delivered specially wrapped and labeled “From: THE PRIME MINISTER”.

This catalogue features 40 items, all of them signed or inscribed. The items in which you will find these signatures are nearly as diverse as the signers.  This catalogue includes books, correspondence, and ephemera, the latter ranging from dinner menus to contract negotiations to encaenia programmes. The commonality among the diverse items in our new catalogue is the “extra ink” – the indelible mark of a human hand beyond what was merely printed or typed. Each item features at least one autograph signature, sometimes more than just one signature, and often more than just a signature – ranging from inscriptions to hand-corrections to holograph letters.