Basrah: Printed by E. G. Pearson at the Times Press, Bombay, and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. The Arab of Mesopotamia was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform British imperial considerations in the Middle East during and after the First World War. The..... More
New York: 1928. This striking piece of ephemera captures a pivotal moment of twentieth century political history and the singular working relationship between the man who would become America’s longest-serving president and the woman who would serve as his de facto chief of staff. This is a 6 November 1928 telegram..... More
London: H. Walter Barnett, 1917. Photograph. This small collection of images includes a signed photographic portrait of General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936), the celebrated British commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Allenby signed in two lines, including his titular “General”, at an angle..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing is noteworthy both for being signed by Robert Frost and for superior condition. Frost signed this copy in in black ink on the second preliminary sheet recto: “Robert Frost”. This attractive edition is..... More
Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. Full leather. This is a strikingly handsome limited edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published by The Easton Press, 2013. Condition is unequivocally as new; this copy is still hermetically sealed in the publisher’s shrinkwrap and housed in the publisher’s shipping..... More
New York: United States Book Company, Successors to John W. Lovell Company, 1885. Hardcover. This is a lovely late 19th century American edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), published by the John W. Lovell Company, New York, circa 1885, with 42 illustrations..... More
London: John Murray, 1850. Full leather. This is a handsome, finely bound, school prize presentation copy of publisher John Murray’s 1850 edition of the Poetical Works of Byron. The binding, excellent edition, and contemporary school prize provenance render this a compelling example of poetical works of perhaps the best known..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Third edition. Hardcover. This is a jacketed third edition of Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, the first edition to feature an Introduction by the English poet, novelist, and Bloomsbury group member Vita Sackville-West – a personal friend of the author. In 1892 Gertrude Bell, a twenty-four-year old..... More
circa 1941. This is an original, signed, Second World War photograph of then-British General Henry Maitland Wilson inspecting the French Foreign Legion. The photograph is signed “H Maitland Wilson” across the bottom right, and measures 4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.43 x 8.89 cm). Though small, the image is crisp and..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Paperback. This elusive prize is the visually striking and exceptionally rare wraps binding of the colonial issue of the first edition, only printing. Internally identical to the hardbound first edition, it is bound instead in tan card wrappers featuring the same color illustration..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, only printing of My African Journey, Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. The first edition is striking, with a vivid..... More
Toronto: William Briggs, 1909. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. This genuine rarity is the first and only Canadian issue of My African Journey, among the scarcest English language first editions of Churchill's book-length works. We have seen only a precious few on the market over many years. My African Journey is..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, more humble in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as..... More
London (and New York): Hodder and Stoughton (for George H. Doran Company), 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing, first state. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, more humble in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in..... More
New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton (for George H. Doran Company), 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing, second state. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, more humble in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in..... 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: 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: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Paperback. This is the 1910 vintage pulp paperback, the so-called "First Cheap Edition." My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. In November 1908 Hodder and Stoughton published My African..... More
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