War Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.1. 1920. This is a 3 December 1920 autograph letter signed by then-Secretary of State for War and Air Winston S. Churchill to Irish-born Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Baronet (1864-1922), who rose to prominence during the First World War and was assassinated 18 months..... More

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1948. Hardcover. This is a postwar reprint inscribed to Clare Boothe Luce, a longtime friend of Winston Churchill rightly called “one of the most remarkable women of 20th-century America.” The inscription, inked in blue in five lines on the front free endpaper, reads: “To | Clare..... More

London: Heinemann & Zsolnay, Ltd., 1943. First French language edition. Hardcover. This is the first French edition of the first volume of Churchill's war speeches, finely bound, inscribed and dated by Churchill to his longtime friend and painting companion Charles Montag (1880-1956). The inked inscription in four lines on the..... More

London: September 1900. Booklet. This early and noteworthy Churchill signature dates from September 1900. It is found in an autograph booklet signed by 29 journalists attending The Annual Conference of the Institute of Journalists in London. In September 1900, Winston Churchill was just 25 years old, a soldier and war-correspondent..... More

London: Heinemann & Zsolnay, Ltd., 1943. First French language edition. Hardcover. This is the first French edition of the second volume of Churchill's war speeches, finely bound, inscribed and dated by Churchill to his longtime friend and painting companion Charles Montag (1880-1956). The inked inscription in five lines on the..... 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

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

Grand Central Hotel, Belfast: 1912. Hardcover. This extraordinary album signature by Winston S. Churchill made on 8 February 1912 in Belfast, the day of his famous speech on Irish Home Rule, comes from the personal collection of Churchill bibliographer Ronald I. Cohen. Churchill still had half a century of public..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This full, six-volume U.S. first edition, mixed printing set of Churchill's Marlborough: His Life and Times is signed and dated by Churchill in the first volume during his second and final premiership. Churchill signed in black ink in two..... More

Johannesburg: MacDonald Purnell, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. This presentation copy of the South African first edition of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography was inscribed and dated by him during his presidency. Mandela began writing what would become Long Walk to Freedom clandestinely in prison in 1974. It was published in 1994, the..... 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: 1929. This collection of 1929 correspondence concerns the 1897-98 Malakand expedition on the northwest colonial Indian frontier that saw a young Winston Churchill’s first combat and was the subject of his first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force. The correspondence includes two holograph, signed letters from..... More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second, limited American edition and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly compelling presentation copy of a striking limited edition of the author’s second published book. This copy not only retains the original dust jacket, but is also inscribed by the illustrator..... More