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
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, of Churchill's second published work, the lengthiest from his time as an itinerant cavalry officer and war correspondent during the waning days of Queen Victoria’s reign. This first edition is not only..... More
London: Review of Reviews / William T. Stead, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. This extremely scarce 1905 publication contains a 17-page piece by Winston Churchill on Free Trade preceded by a 3-page biographic sketch and a striking, full-page, half-tone portrait of Churchill. In addition to the publication of Churchill’s image and..... 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: National Savings Committee, circa 1940. This is an original wartime British propaganda poster featuring a message from the Prime Minister exhorting both wartime thrift and the purchase of war bonds. This 20 x 15 inch poster (50.8 x 38.1 cm) features a striking orange background, on the upper portion..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the first edition, first state of this striking, scarce, and fragile early collection of Churchill's speeches. In 1904, Churchill quit the Conservative Party and joined the Liberals, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, of Churchill's second published work, the lengthiest from his time as an itinerant cavalry officer and war correspondent during the waning days of Queen Victoria’s reign. This first edition is not only..... More
Aldershot. This archive centers on the Centenary of the British Army Physical Training Corps (A.P.T.C.) at Aldershot and one of its most famous sons, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Corps Commandant from 1946-1960. Spanning 1958 to 1962, the archive includes: two books signed by Montgomery, two holograph, signed letters from..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an unusually clean and bright jacketed copy of the British first edition, first printing. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day - including the likes of Lawrence, Shaw, 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. This is a spectacular, jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of Churchill's The World Crisis in the rare original publisher's slipcase. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill..... 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
Washington, D.C. The National Industrial Information Committee, circa 1942. This original Second World War American propaganda poster features the image and words of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. In large white print, angled above an image of the gesticulating and bespectacled Prime Minister, is the title “till Death or..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely, signed first edition of then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Christmas story for children. The author signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” in blue ink on the half-title page. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The illustrated binding is..... More
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. This is a magnificently immaculate full set of Churchill’s Collected Essays in the vellum bindings and slipcases - the best set we have ever encountered. In 1976, the Library of Imperial History issued The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill as..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Half leather. This is a finely bound, full, six-volume set of British first editions of The Second World War, Winston Churchill's history of the epic 20th Century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. The bindings feature dark..... More
Tunisia: British Eighth Army, 28 April 1943. Leaflet. This compelling Second World War artifact is an original message from General Bernard Law Montgomery to his Eighth Army troops on 28 April 1943 during the final Allied effort to expel Axis forces from North Africa. This printed message is not only..... More
La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail: 1958. This typed 17 August 1958 letter from Winston S. Churchill to Jock Colville concerns the death of Churchill’s close friend and wartime Minister for Information, Brendan Bracken. Though short and restrained, the letter is a fascinating convergence, touching three great Churchill associations – Colville, Bracken..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing, is the first variant of the quite scarce hardcover binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches, part of his campaign against the India Bill over which he broke with his party’s leadership. Though..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the first edition, first state of this striking, scarce, and fragile early collection of Churchill's speeches. In 1904, Churchill quit the Conservative Party and joined the Liberals, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first 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. The first..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Here is a full set of six U.S. first edition, first printings of Winston Churchill’s monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. This set features the quite scarce first state dust jackets and slipcases, and..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1948. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. Here is a jacketed set of all five of Churchill's post-WWII speech volumes, increasingly challenging to assemble thus. This set is unequivocally the best we have ever encountered, and virtually unobtainable thus. All five volumes in this..... 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 history of the First World War in the original first printing dust jacket - one of the most striking and rare dust jackets in the Churchill canon. This..... 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