Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2004. Limited, full-morocco issue of the third English edition. Hardcover. This is the beautiful Castle Hill Press limited edition of parallel French and English texts of Lawrence's first published translation, Adrien Le Corbeau's novel The Forest Giant. Of a total edition of 352, only 40..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. First, limited, numbered, and finely bound edition. Quarter Leather. This is a nearly fine copy of the first limited, finely bound, and numbered edition of the inimitable Gertrude Bell's First World War despatches to the Arab Bureau in Cairo. Bell’s despatches had previously been published..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first U.S. edition, first printing, of the first volume of the War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, covering the years 1914-1915. The edition was quite handsome, the substantial volume measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches (24.1 x...... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Folio Society Edition, third printing. Hardcover. This is the handsome Folio Society edition. This is an as-new, flawless and unread copy of the third printing in a fine slipcase. Founded in 1947, the Folio Society is known for striking and imaginatively crafted editions of celebrated..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, Colonial issue. Hardcover. This is the scarce hardcover colonial issue of the British first edition of My African Journey. Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa was written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. This book is..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. First Edition, only printing. Hardcover. This book is the precursor to Churchill’s great war speeches, the first edition, only printing. This particular copy is increasingly scarce thus, in the first issue dust jacket. Condition is good plus in a good dust jacket..... 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
Copyright Associated Press Wirephoto By Signal Corps Radio, published by the Chicago Tribune, 1944. Photograph. This original wartime press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill with Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke on board the destroyer HMS Kelvin crossing the English Channel for Normandy on..... More
Florida: Levenger Press, Delray Beach, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Author David Coombs originally published the standard catalogue of over five hundred Churchill paintings then known in 1967. In this large and striking full-leather limited edition of 2003, each painting is illustrated in color or black and white. Accompanying the images..... More
Baltimore: The Baltimore Sun, 1955. Photograph. This original Associated Press Wirephoto captures eighty-year-old Sir Winston S. Churchill on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in his final hours as Prime Minister as he prepared to depart for Buckingham Palace, where he submitted his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. The gelatin silver..... More
Associated Press, published by the Chicago Tribune, 1940. Photograph. This original wartime press photograph captures British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, accompanied by his close friend and chief scientific advisor Frederick Alexander Lindemann (aka "Prof"), watching an air battle from an observation post near Dover on 28 August 1940 during..... More
Chicago: Copyright Associated Press, published by The Chicago Tribune, 1943. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, appropriately kitted with pith helmet and sunglasses and with a cigar clenched between his teeth, holding a shell while inspecting a German tank in Tunis on 2 June 1943..... More
Chicago: Copyright Associated Press, published by the Chicago Tribune, 1943. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Winston S. Churchill on the cusp of the electoral victory that brought him his second and final premiership. Churchill was photographed on 2 October 1951 at Liverpool Stadium where he gave an election address..... More
New York: Halcyon-Commonwealth Foundation, 1965. Second Edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the 1965 (the year of Churchill’s death) publication of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946. This edition of the speech contains a preface by Truman, and is quite..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1942. Hardcover. This is a Second World War reprint of then-Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s extremely popular autobiography, this copy notable for interesting wartime provenance. First published in 1930, this is a 1942 Second World War reprint (from first edition plates) by Macmillan, London. This..... More
1944. Photograph. This signed Second World War image captures President Franklin D. Roosevelt at approximately 4:15 PM on 26 July 1944 aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore at Honolulu, Hawaii. With a gun turret clearly visible in the upper background, FDR is seated in a chair on the deck, with..... More
France: Printed at Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918. This extraordinary map of the First World War’s first U.S.-led offensive was signed in the field by the man who commanded the victory – General John J. Pershing. “Printed at Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army 1918”, this map..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. This compelling author’s presentation copy of the first edition is inscribed twice by Field-Marshall Sir William Slim with an additional autograph letter from Slim on Windsor Castle stationery. Slim’s personal account of the Second World War campaign in Burma “stands as..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the first hardcover edition of Ursula K. LeGuin’s Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel, retaining its original dust jacket and accompanied by an unattached bookplate signed by LeGuin. This copy would be in..... More
Hillsdale, Michigan: Hillsdale College Press, 2006. Hardcover. This is a full set of eight volumes of the Hillsdale College edition of the Official Biography of Sir Winston S. Churchill, signed in four volumes by the author, Sir Martin Gilbert. Volumes III, IV, V, and VI are signed “Martin Gilbert” just..... More
circa 1945. This large, gelatin silver photographic portrait of President Harry S. Truman is inscribed by him in two lines “Kindest regards to Lt. Gen. J.E. Hull, | Harry S. Truman”. John E. Hull (1895-1975) spent a career in the U.S. Army, serving in both World Wars, ending the Second..... More
Hopkinton, New Hampshire: Dragonwyck Publishing, 1990. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This compelling presentation copy of the first U.S. edition, only printing is inscribed by the publisher to Churchill’s official biographer. The inscription, inked in ten lines on the front free endpaper, reads “Inscribed to | Martin Gilbert | from the..... More
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd., 1928. Third British edition. This inscribed author’s presentation copy of his First World War novel is notable in several respects. This third British edition was the first to include an Introduction by Winston S. Churchill. This copy is inscribed by the author to a friend..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing of the fifth volume of the Official Biography of Winston S. Churchill, a presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication by Churchill’s namesake grandson and his wife. The inscription, filling the front free..... More