London: Vandyk Ltd., 1929. Photograph. This extraordinary 1920s studio portrait of Winston S. Churchill is not only signed by the photographer, but also signed and dated by Churchill just two days after the election defeat of his Conservative Party that ended his long tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer and..... More

Washington, D.C. Harris & Ewing Inc., 1925. Photograph. This is an inscribed, signed, and dated 1925 presentation photographic portrait of Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965), New York financier, philanthropist, statesman, and advisor to U.S. presidents spanning Woodrow Wilson to Harry Truman. Baruch wrote in three lines in the bottom border of..... More

London: John Thomson & John Newlands Thomson, 1911. Photograph. This is an inscribed, signed, and dated 1911 presentation photographic portrait of Margot Asquith, wife of then-Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. The 9.25 x 5.5 inch photograph is mounted on an 11.125 x 8 inch studio card. Asquith inscribed the card..... More

Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, England: 18 June 1933. Letter. This is an 18 June 1933 typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to his friend, supporter, admirer, and anti-appeasement ally Duff Cooper, later 1st Viscount Norwich. Testifying to their friendship, mutual respect, and past and future collaboration, the letter solicits Cooper’s..... More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing of the biography of Lady Diana Cooper is inscribed and signed by Lady Cooper in the year of publication and offers a convocation of literary associations. Lady Cooper inscribed the half title in seven lines: "For John Phillips..... More

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a strikingly clean and bright first edition, first printing of Churchill's autobiography. My Early Life sold well at the time and has seen a great many editions since, many of these collectible in their own right, but of..... More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1994. Full leather. This is a full, twelve-volume set of the Easton Press edition of the Official Biography of Winston Churchill. Begun by Randolph Churchill and completed by Martin Gilbert, Churchill's Official Biography is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life. The eight..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, first printing, first state. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, first state of Churchill's third book and only novel.The British first edition was issued from American plates, with only 1,500 copies of the first printing published on 12 February..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Churchill's fourth published book. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria is the first of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. The British first..... More

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first issue of Stevenson’s most enduringly famous novel, the coming-of-age pirate treasure quest of young Jim Hawkins.Edition & ConditionThe 2,000 first edition sheets were bound by the publisher in batches, resulting in a variety..... More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition. Half leather. This is the three-volume, first edition, first issue, the set bound in contemporary half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards. Consonant with first issue, there is significant Volume I mispagination; pages 167-306 are misnumbered as 143-298. Condition of the volumes..... More

Glasgow: Printed by Chapman & Lang for Thomas Stewart, 1801. First edition. Leather. This is a first edition of this scarce, early collection Robert Burns poems, this copy in a 19th century full green Morocco fine binding. This volume is the first printed appearance of ten pieces – those at..... More

London: Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834. First edition thus. Hardcover. This is a full, eight-volume set of The Works of Robert Burns – the first to be edited by, and prefaced with a foundational biography of Burns by, Burns’s fellow poet, Allan Cunningham. This particular set is noteworthy for retaining the..... More