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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first abridged and revised edition of Churchill's monumental and acclaimed history of the First World War. This important edition covering the war years 1911-1918 is not just an abridgement. It incorporates revisions by Churchill with new..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes. The British first editions are visually striking, but were printed..... More
London: Editorial and Publishing Offices of Pall Mall Magazine, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. This 10-page article by a very young Winston Churchill first appeared in the January 1901 issue of Pall Mall Magazine, Volume XXIII, No. 93, at pages 66-75. In the article, fresh from his own wartime experience in..... More
Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Limited, hand-numbered, copyright edition. Hardcover. This is the true first edition of T. E. Lawrence’s unstintingly candid portrait of life in the Royal Air Force ranks, a magnificent example of the U.S. “copyright edition”, one of just 50 copies, none of..... More
London: Corvinus Press, 1937. First, finely bound, limited, and hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly well-preserved copy of the scarce and extraordinarily beautiful 1937 Corvinus Press limited first edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, which has been called “the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the..... More
New York and elsewhere: The Robert Shalkenbach Foundation, Public Revenue Education Council, The Economics League, International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade, U.S. Department of State, John C. Lincoln, and other private publishers, c.1950s & 1960s. Various. Paperback. This unusual collection of nineteen pamphlets expounds progressive political and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1935. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first trade edition, first printing in dust jacket. This copy is very good in a good dust jacket. First printing is confirmed by the illustration on pages 304-5 incorrectly specified in the list of Illustrations at..... More
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
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. First edition, sixth printing. Hardcover. These two volumes posthumously published the correspondence of Gertrude Bell, “The uncrowned Queen of the Desert”. This first edition, sixth printing is scarce thus in the original dust jackets. The sixth printing occurred two months after the first and is..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. Second edition. Hardcover. This second edition of Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, quite scarce thus in the original dust jacket, is the first edition published under her name. In 1892 Gertrude Bell, a twenty-four year old Oxford graduate, traveled to Persia with her Aunt to visit..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Heinlein's novel about a rich and powerful man who has the power to purchase a new body, but is faced with moral and philosophical consequences beyond his expectations. Condition is..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of a collection of Heinlein stories and commentaries, including "7 never-before-collected stories", "14 never-before-collected articles", and "previously unpublished commentaries on all of the above" billed as "The Wit and Wisdom of Robert..... More
New York: New English Library, 1980. British first edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, a better than near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The black binding is square, clean, bright, and tight with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and no appreciable wear. The contents remain bright..... More
New York: ACE / Putnam, 1987. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Heinlein's last novel published during his prolific and acclaimed career. Condition is near fine in a fine dust jacket. The quarter cloth binding is square, clean, bright, and tight with no..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of one of Heinlein's final novels. Condition is very good plus in a near fine dust jacket. The quarter black cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners, bright spine..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a finely bound, first printing set of the three-volume "definitive" edition of Churchill's war speeches, published during Churchill's second and final premiership. The bindings are magnificent, executed in full dark green morocco goatskin, featuring spines with gilt..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1931. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, second and final printing, in the quite scarce hardcover binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches as part of his campaign against the India Bill, over which he broke with his party’s leadership..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1994. Full leather. This is an immaculate, as-new set of the Easton Press edition of the Official Biography of Winston Churchill. Begun by Randolph Churchill and completed by Martin Gilbert, Churchill's Official Biography is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life. The eight..... More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1906. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a first edition set of Winston Churchill's biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. The first edition, only printing, is aesthetically pleasing, featuring deep red cloth, untrimmed page edges, gilt stamping, and the family coat of arms on..... 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: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1951. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a particularly clean jacketed British first edition, only printing of the third of Churchill's five postwar speech volumes. In the Balance includes 58 speeches and broadcasts delivered between 26 January 1949 and 14 December 1950. This British..... More
New Hampshire: International Churchill Societies, 1994. Second Edition. Paperback. This is the second volume edition of The Dream, Winston Churchill's revealing essay about a ghostly reunion with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in which Winston recounts the world events that have transpired since his father's death - without revealing his..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Leather bound. This six-volume first edition, first printing set of The Second World War is the rare full Morocco presentation binding commissioned by Churchill himself. This is the rarest and most desirable first edition issue of Churchill's history of the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. Lauren Ford. First edition. Hardcover. This interesting little book is excerpted from Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. On 29 December 1938, Churchill wrote to his wife regarding his initial draft about this part of his history: "I have just finished writing..... More