New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. trade edition in the original dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the story of T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab... More about Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the original dust jacket and slipcase
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. This is the publisher's finely bound, hand-numbered limited issue of the U.S. first edition in the publisher’s slipcase. This issue featured quarter dark brown pigskin over maroon buckram boards with beveled edges, maroon top edge, red and yellow..... More about Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the U.S. publisher's quarter leather limited edition, copy #683 of 750,...
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1959. First edition, first printing. Paperback. This is a first edition, first printing of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s second novel. This Dell mass market paperback is in good plus condition. This example has the usual vertical creasing to the spine and light wear to the..... More about The Sirens of Titan
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 about Lawrence of Arabia Memorial
Delray Beach, Florida: Levenger Press, 2004. Full leather. This is the beautifully produced Levenger press edition of the history of Boston by U.S. Senator and historian Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). Boston was Lodge’s native city and his work was originally published in 1891. This beautiful, leather bound Levenger Press edition..... More about Boston
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, only printing, first state of Churchill's first book, based on his exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. First state is confirmed by the lack of an... More about The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
London: Educational Book Company, 1954. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. This is a superior set of the first illustrated edition of The Second World War, beautifully preserved in the publisher’s original glassine dust wrappers. The first illustrated “Chartwell” edition of The Second World War was published soon after the British first edition..... More about The Second World War, Chartwell Edition
London: Pictorial Press Ltd., 1945. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill accompanied by his wife, Clementine, in his Woodford constituency on 26 May 1945 giving his first speech of the 1945 General Election that would end his wartime premiership two months later on 26 July... More about An original wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, accompanied by his...
London: The 'Topical' Press Agency, 29 November 1948. Photograph. This original press photo captures Winston S. Churchill dressed in his fox hunt kit on 27 November 1948. The image, measuring 10.25 x 8 in (26 x 20.3 cm), is a gelatin silver print on glossy photo paper. Condition is very... More about An original press photograph of Winston S. Churchill dressed for a fox hunt with the Old Surrey...
London: Keystone Press Agency, 3 July 1945. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill on 3 July 1945 delivering his final campaign speech of the 1945 General Election. Churchill is depicted here with a borrowed hat befitting his borrowed time; his wartime premiership ended weeks later... More about An original wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill on 3 July 1945,...
London: Fox Photos, 11 January 1940. Photograph. This original press photo captures First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill touring the Royal Air Force Headquarters in France on 7 January 1940, less than half a year before his ascension to wartime premier, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the fall... More about An original wartime press photograph of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill touring...
London: Keystone Press Agency, 1945. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill standing before an improvised microphone stand on 2 July 1945 while campaigning for the General Election, which his Conservatives would lose to Labour, ousting Churchill from his wartime premiership on 26 July 1945. The... More about An original wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill giving a campaign...
London: Fox Photos, 15 June 1950. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Winston S. Churchill and his wife, Clementine, arriving at Ascot on 15 June 1950 to watch Churchill’s horse, Colonist II, race in the Ascot Gold Cup. The image, measuring 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm), is... More about An original press photograph of Winston S. Churchill and his wife, Clementine, arriving at Ascot...
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. U.S. first edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the precursor to Churchill's great war speeches, the U.S. first edition, first printing in the first printing dust jacket. The U.S. first edition is a handsome book, a substantial 9.5 x 6.375 inches (25.13 x 16.19..... More about While England Slept
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. in co-operation with Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. First American Edition. Paperback. This is the first American edition of a wartime publication of the official British Air Ministry’s record of the Battle of Britain. As printed on the rear cover..... More about The Battle of Britain
London: George Newnes Limited, 1933-34. First Illustrated edition. Paperback. This is a superior, very well-preserved, and handsomely presented full set of the first illustrated edition of Winston Churchill's history of the First World War. This first illustrated edition was published under the title "The Great War" and originally issued by... More about The Great War, a full set of all 26 magazine parts as originally issued, housed in two imposing...
London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition. Wraps. This first edition, final binding variant of Frost’s first published book is #76 of the final 135 copies signed and numbered by the author in 1943. First published in England in 1913, the publication history of A Boy’s Will is complicated by the... More about A Boy's Will, hand-numbered "76" and signed by Frost
London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition. Wraps. This first edition, second issue of Frost’s first published book is the scarcest identified binding variant – one of just 30 thus. First published in England in 1913, the publication history of A Boy’s Will is complicated by the fact that the reported..... More about A Boy's Will
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. This U.S. first edition, first printing of Gabriel García Márquez’s landmark work of Latin American literature is very good in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth binding with matching yellow and green head and foot bands..... More about One Hundred Years of Solitude
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. This is a superior copy of the publisher's finely bound, hand-numbered limited issue of the U.S. first edition. This issue featured quarter dark brown pigskin over maroon buckram boards with beveled edges, maroon top edge, red and yellow... More about Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the U.S. publisher's quarter leather limited edition, copy #685 of 750
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2009. Hand-Numbered Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Castle Hill Press limited, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint - Lawrence’s unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks - together with significant later writings by Lawrence about his RAF service life... More about 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
New Hampshire: International News Photos, Inc, 18 June 1932. Photograph. This is an original press photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Governor of New York with members of his family at the home of his son, James, on 18 June 1932, weeks before he received the Democratic presidential nomination and... More about An original press photo of then-New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his wife,...
International News Photos, Inc., 10 June 1936. Photograph. This is an original press photograph of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 8 June 1936 at the White House preparing speeches for his Dust Bowl trip of 1936 during his first term as president. This press photo once belonged to The Cleveland News’... More about An original press photo of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 8 June 1936 at the White House...
Associated Press Photos, 8 May 1945. Photograph. This is an original press photograph of a portrait of FDR taken by his official 1944 campaign portrait photographer, Leon A. Perskie, at Hyde Park on 21 August 1944. This image, measuring 9 x 7.125 in (22.8 x 18.1 cm), is a silver... More about An original press copy of the official campaign portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for his...
Washington, D.C. Associated Press, 25 October 1934. Photograph. This is an original press photo of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt taken during the first of the President’s eventual four terms in office, at a Washington D.C. Justice building dedication ceremony on 25 October 1934. This image, measuring 7 x 9 in... More about An original press photo of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a Washington D.C. Justice...
