Utrecht, The Netherlands (wartime occupied): The Busy Bee, or De Bezige Bij (Geert Lubberhuizen), 1944. Paperback. This remarkable Second World War artifact was published in Nazi-occupied Holland, testifying to the hope, courage, and peril of an occupied people. This is a numbered and limited publication of the Atlantic Charter, published..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is a finely bound, full six-volume set of British first editions of The Second World War, Winston Churchill's history of the epic 20th Century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. The bindings are three-quarter..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. First edition. Half leather. This is the first edition, first printing of the first volume appearance of Winston S. Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930..... More
Hopkinton, New Hampshire: Dragonwyck Publishing, 1990. First U.S. edition, only printing, finely bound, limited, and numbered issue. Full leather. This is the quite scarce finely bound limited and numbered issue of the U.S. first edition. First published in 1931, India is a collection of 10 speeches by Churchill as part..... More
Hopkinton, New Hampshire: Dragonwyck Publishing, 1990. First U.S. edition, only printing, finely bound, limited, and numbered issue. Full leather. This is the quite scarce finely bound limited and numbered issue of the U.S. first edition. First published in 1931, India is a collection of 10 speeches by Churchill as part..... More
England: Copeland/Spode, 1941. This is a handsome piece of Churchilliana, an illustrated jug produced by Copeland/Spode in 1941. A large piece at 7.5 inches tall, it was produced under wartime restrictions. One side of the pitcher features a cameo of Churchill with a warship to his left, a tank to..... More
London & Glasgow: Gowans and Gray, Ltd., 1924. First edition. Paperback. This scarce 1924 paperback is a personal reminiscence of Winston S. Churchill’s improbable and extraordinary active service at the Front during the First World War. “The soldiers of Churchill’s command in Flanders in 1916 received him dubiously as an..... More
10 Downing Street, London: 1943. This Second World War artifact includes a facsimile handwritten letter by Clementine Churchill, printed on both sides of a piece of 10 Downing Street stationery measuring 7 x 4.625 inches (17.78 x 11.75 cm). The date “July 1943” and names “George, Bobby & Jimmy” were..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (H.M.S.O.), The Baynard Press, 1940. First edition. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of one of Churchill's most famous speeches. Churchill's speech to Parliament of August 20th, 1940 was occasioned in part by the Battle of Britain and famously honored the RAF pilots..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (H.M.S.O.), The Baynard Press, 1940. First edition. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of one of Churchill's most famous speeches. Churchill's speech to Parliament of August 20th, 1940 was occasioned in part by the Battle of Britain and famously honored the RAF pilots..... 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: Doubleday, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition is inscribed by the Editor the month after publication in black ink in three lines below her printed name on the title page: “For Anet | Mary Soames | Nov: ‘98”. This first edition is an attractive production. The contents feature..... 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: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949. Hardcover. This is a vintage, jacketed reprint of Churchill's second published book. This is the fourth and penultimate printing of the bibliographically important 1933 edition. Originally published in 1899, The River War recounts Churchill's experiences and reflections concerning British involvement in the Sudan, including Churchill’s..... More
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1939. Hardcover. This is the first two-volume edition of Winston Churchill’s history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end..... More
Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W.1., London: None, circa 1921. This truly singular item is an unpublished autograph poem by eminent First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). The poem was drafted early in his literary career, circa 1921, presuming the reference to Caruso to be contemporary (Enrico Caruso, a widely..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is the first edition, first printing, finely bound in full maroon Morocco goatskin, hued sympathetically to the publisher’s original dark red cloth. The fine binding features raised spine bands framed by gilt rules and decoration, twin black spine..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1917. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This compelling inscribed association copy of the first edition of solider-poet Siegfried Sassoon’s (1886-1967) First World War poetry collection, The Old Huntsman, is inscribed on the front free-end paper “To Mrs. Colefax. | from the author. | June. 1917.” The front..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition. Full leather. This strikingly handsome first edition, first printing features a fine interwar binding by the renowned “Riviere & Son” bindery. The exceptional full brown morocco goatskin binding features raised bands and boards embellished with double gilt-ruled edges. The contents feature stunning marbled endpapers framed..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1929. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an unexpurgated first edition, first printing of poet, soldier, scholar, and author Robert Graves’s (1895-1985) first World War autobiography. Condition is good plus, in a poor but nonetheless scarce dust jacket. The original orange-red binding is tight and..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. This is a handsome, contemporary association copy of the first edition, first printing of Rupert Brooke’s (1887-1915) 1914 and Other Poems. The front free endpaper contains the ownership signature: “A. T. Bartholomew | Cambridge, | 18 June 1915.” Augustus Theodore “Theo”..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a compellingly inscribed jacketed, American first edition, first printing of the author’s first published book. On the front free endpaper, inked in black in three lines, Frost wrote: “your friend (if you will | accept..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Hardcover. This exquisite edition of Herodotus’ The Histories, translated by G. Rawlinson, with revisions and annotations by A. W. Lawrence, engravings by V. Le Campion, and maps by T. Poulton, was published by Nonesuch Press in 1935. This is copy 549 of 675, a massive tome..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934. Second American Edition. Hardcover. This second American edition of the author’s first published book is inscribed by Frost, apparently to his American publisher's secretary in four lines on the front free endpaper recto: "For Helen Lynch | from | Robert Frost | April..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. This is the elusive first edition of Gertrude Bell’s second published book, the first published under her name and her only published poetical work. Condition is exceptional, near fine. The publisher’s cloth binding is beautifully clean and unfaded, square and tight with sharp..... More