London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1927. Numbered and limited issue of the first edition. Quarter leather. This is the English first, limited, and numbered edition of Revolt in the Desert - the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public in Lawrence’s lifetime. This limited edition was..... More
Melbourne & New York: George J. Hicks & Co. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1927. First "Australasian Edition" Hardcover. This Australasian issue of Revolt in the Desert is distinguished by the unique dust jacket. Australian publisher George J. Hicks & Co obtained second printing copies from the American publisher, Doran..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Finely bound, limited, hand-numbered edition. Full leather. This intriguing orphan is ONLY THE FIRST VOLUME (of two) of the publisher’s finely bound issue of the first and limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text. Only 80 of the 752 sets were issued thus..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1935. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first trade edition, first printing in dust jacket. This edition, published swiftly after Lawrence’s death, marked the first time that the text of his famous “Subscribers’ Edition” was made available to the general public. This is..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. Second U.S. edition ("Gift Edition"). Hardcover. Revolt in the Desert is the only version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public in Lawrence’s lifetime. This is the second American edition – the so-called “Gift Edition” issued for the 1927 Christmas season..... More
Cairo: Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. First edition. Wraps. This is the record of the First World War’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force and their actions on the Near Eastern front. This text contains unattributed accounts by T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), who found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic..... More
Upper Denby: Fleece Press, 2005. First and limited edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the strikingly handsome limited edition authored by Richard Knowles, an accomplished collector and purveyor of Lawrence material and author of several excellent books about Lawrence. Two Superiors details Lawrence’s passion for motorcycles, specifically the title’s eponymous..... More
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2018. First and limited edition. Hardcover. This strikingly handsome first and limited edition examines the history of the rarefied American publication of Seven Pillars of Wisdom that, in 1926, preceded publication of the famous Subscriber’s issue. This book relates “the intriguing history and details surrounding..... More
Coneygar Lodge, Quenington, Gloucestershire: The Reading Room Press, 2013. Limited, hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a handsome, limited edition of the insightful and compelling memoir On Collecting Books and Printing Them Too by Viscount Carlow. This is number 6 of 110 printed copies, hand-numbered thus on the colophon. The substantial..... More
London: Strawberry Press, 1997. Second British edition. Hardcover. This is a beautiful edition of Two Arabic Folk Tales, translated by T.E. Lawrence, edited & illustrated by Paul W. Nash, printed by The Strawberry Press, 1997. The book is bound in handsome brown laid paper-covered boards, the cover with Lawrence’s initials..... More
Egypt: 1945. First Egyptian edition. Wraps. This scarce curiosity is the first Egyptian Edition, Lurins Batal al-Jazirah, Matbaat Lajnat al Ta ‘lif Waltarjama wal Nashr, 1945, combining Winston S. Churchill’s essay on Lawrence from the 1937 edition of Great Contemporaries and W.S. Burbidge’s The Mysterious. The Arabic title translates to..... More
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is The Fleece Press’ handsome, limited edition of Clare Sydney Smith’s The Golden Reign: the story of my friendship with “Lawrence of Arabia”. This volume is in pristine, as-new condition. This is a fine example of the quality of The..... More
1935. First edition. Leaflet. This is a flier seeking funding for the T. E. Lawrence memorial in St. Paul’s Cathedral, published in August 1935. Just a few years before the Second World War, Winston Churchill wrote of his friend, T. E. Lawrence: "The impression of the personality of Lawrence remains..... More
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. This is a full set of Churchill’s Collected Essays in the vellum bindings and slipcases. In 1976, the Library of Imperial History issued The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill as a welcome follow-up to the Collected Works, which included only..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1941. First edition, first printing, first state. Hardcover. This is a finely bound British first edition, first printing of the first volume of Churchill's famous war speeches, containing speeches spanning May 1938 to November 1940, from the height of appeasement and Churchill’s political isolation, through..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a six-volume jacketed set of British first editions of The Second World War, Winston S. Churchill's history of the epic 20th Century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. Jacketed British first edition sets in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This is the elusive U.S. first edition of Churchill's second book, increasingly scarce thus in the striking dust jacket. Originally published in England in 1899, this was one of the few Churchill books that did not see a U.S. first..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This weighty, three-volume set first issued in 1984 publishes the complete correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill from October 1933 to April 1945, the month FDR died. The correspondence is edited with commentary by Warren..... More
Connecticut: Easton Press, Norwalk, 2006. Full leather. This is a beautiful, Easton Press leather bound edition of Churchill's first published book, written while he was a young cavalry officer and war correspondent fighting and writing on the northwest frontier of British colonial India. Easton Press publications are regarded for their..... More
London: Odhams Press Limited, Ernest Benn Limited, 1948. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Painting as a Pastime, Churchill's essay about his famous hobby. It had been printed in The Strand Magazine as early as 1921, but it was not until 1948 -..... More
London: Ministry of Information (presumed), 1940. First edition, only printing. Leaflet. This is the first edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill’s first broadcast as wartime Prime Minister on 19 May 1940, during the final weeks before the fall of France. The four-page leaflet is printed on a single sheet of..... More
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1912. Liberal Publication Department edition. Pamphlet. This is the original pamphlet publication of Churchill's controversial February 8, 1912 speech in Belfast supporting Irish Home Rule. Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, had vigorously supported the Ulster Unionists. Over time, Winston came to support Home Rule, leading to..... More
Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press, 1943. First and limited edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This extremely scarce wartime speech pamphlet publication of Churchill’s 11 November 1942 speech to the House of Commons was a limited edition of only 400 copies. According to Churchill’s bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, as early as 1953 noted Churchill..... More
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1915. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This item is the original pamphlet publication of Churchill's February 15, 1915 speech in the House of Commons - his final time introducing the annual Navy Budget as First Lord of the Admiralty. This pamphlet is 20 pages, bound..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office (H.M.S.O.), 1940. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This scarce and interesting wartime pamphlet was published in August 1940, three months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister and a month after Churchill ordered the sinking of the French fleet by the British Navy at Mers-El-Kebir, a...... More