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In The Balance. Speeches 1949 and 1950.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. [Post-War Churchill Speeches] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 456. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles and decoration to spine. With the deep red dust-jacket designed by Samuel H. Bryant, priced at $5.00. Light toning and spotting to edges. Light..... More
![War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards...](/pictures/thumb/56944.jpg?v=1593535204)
[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [History / Politics] COMPLETE WAR SPEECHES IN FIRST EDITION. Seven volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets. Some spotting to wartime paper, no inscriptions, jackets with some..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
The Tanks. The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps, and Royal Tank Corps 1914-1945. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
London: Cassell, 1959. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xx; 462 [2]; pp.xiv; 555 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf of volume I: 'For R.W. Thompson, | in appreciation of his own most interesting | and stimulating exploration of war history..... More
A Memoir of Jane Austen by her Nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, to which is added Lady Susan and Fragments of two other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen.
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883. [Literary Biography] FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 364. With a frontispiece engraving of Jane Austen. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to boards. Brown-coated endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Light toning and spotting to edges. A central..... More
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, no date (1976). [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm). Each volume has the publisher's presentation bookplate loosely inserted, noting that this set is number 8 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Bound in original quarter dark blue..... More
It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. [Artist Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 617 [3]. Heavily illustrated by the author with 96 new drawings, 170 reproductions, and eight colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-lead: 'Inscribed for her mother, |..... More
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