Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1942. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is the beautiful limited edition of Churchill's famous address to Congress, which he delivered only weeks after Pearl Harbor. One of 1,000 copies printed, this copy is in very good condition. The maroon cloth binding is clean, with..... More
50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York: British Library of Information, 1940. First edition, only printing. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's "Speech on the Surrender of the Belgian Army" delivered in the House of Commons on 28 May 1940, just 18 days after Churchill became Britain’s wartime Prime..... More
Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1943. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This handsome and scarce limited edition of Churchill's 19 May 1943 address to the U.S. Congress was produced for Members of Congress by Frank Altschul’s Overbrook Press. This was Churchill's second address to Congress, seventeen long months of war having passed..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1940. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1940. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1941. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, 1940. First edition. Paperback. This is the first edition, only printing of then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill’s speech of 27 January 1940, during the first months of the Second World War, four months before Churchill became Prime Minister. Here the speech was..... More
Canada: Oneida Community Ltd. And Canadian Wm. A. Rogers Ltd., being divisions of Oneida Ltd., 1942. Paperback. Here is a scarce and interesting wartime edition of Churchill's famous address to Congress, which he delivered only weeks after Pearl Harbor, on 26 December, 1941. This Canadian edition, produced in..... More
London: British Ministry of Information in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1941. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This original leaflet issued by the British..... More
New York: The British Library of Information, 1941. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's broadcast speech of 27 April 1941 - Churchill's famous "Westward, Look, the Land is Bright" speech in which he praises the resolve and heroism of the British people..... More
50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York: The British Library of Information, 1940. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's "The War of the Unknown Warriors" broadcast speech of July 14, 1940, just days after the beginning of the Battle of Britain: "This is no..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1940. First edition. Leaflet. "The Germans threaten to invade Great Britain… read these instructions carefully and be prepared to carry them out." This original leaflet issued by the British Government early..... More
Clouds Hill, Moreton, Dorset: 1925. This 4 June 1925 autograph letter signed from T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” to American Whitney Hart Shepardson with compelling content related to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which had not yet seen conventional publication in any form. The letter includes a strikingly denigrating reference to..... More
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777-1788. First, second, and third editions. Hardcover. This is a full, six-volume set of Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus, originally published between 1776 and 1788. The Fourth (1788), Fifth (1788), and Sixth (1788) volumes are all first editions. The Second (1781) and Third (1781) volumes..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1912. The finely bound, limited, and numbered "Old Stratford Edition" Full leather. These 18 finely bound volumes are a full set of "The Old Stratford Edition" of 1912 of the works of Shakespeare. Per the limitation statement, "This set is number 4" of the edition..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. Signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition. Hardcover. This two-volume set is the publisher's signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition of Carl Sandburg’s biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Distinct from the trade edition, the publisher issued 260..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, second printing, of the most famous work of perhaps the most influential economist of the twentieth century. This second printing of the first edition was published in March 1936, just a month after the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. This is an inscribed author’s presentation copy of the first edition, third printing. The book has been called "a landmark in the interpretation of American civilization” and its author “one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century…..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Hardcover. This is an as-new set of the three-volume Castle Hill Press limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text, one of 752 sets total and 650 issued thus. This edition marked the first time that Lawrence's full text was made available to the..... More
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office & The Earl Marshal of England, 1965. This is a small archive of nine documents from the 30 January 1965 state funeral of Sir Winston S. Churchill. Individual items from Churchill’s funeral are not uncommon, but it is quite unusual to find a coherent set..... More
Virginia: Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. This is a striking archive of publications and documents commemorating the presentation of the first Williamsburg Award to Winston Churchill at Drapers' Hall, London, on 7 December 1955. This archive includes two publications of the Proceedings of the Presentation..... More
La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail: 1958. Photograph. This is a collection of 27 original photographs of Sir Winston Churchill from September 1958 and June 1960, all of them informal, featuring him variously relaxing, smoking cigars, reading, painting, or aboard a yacht. All of the images were captured on the grounds or..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Third U.S. issue, fourth printing. Hardcover. Winston Churchill inscribed and dated this 1945 printing of his autobiography of his early life in 1946, almost certainly during his extended trip to the United States (14 January to 20 March 1946), during which he delivered his..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, of Churchill’s extremely popular autobiography. This copy offers an additional enticement to collectors, being a variant binding not noted by bibliographers and only the second copy we have encountered bound thus. Various states..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fourth volume of Winston Churchill's monumental history of The First World War, quite rare thus in a clean and substantially intact original dust jacket. A quarter of a century before the Second..... More