News From the Front

DAY 9 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

In these dwindling twelve days of “Twelvetide” another highlight from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue .
Day 9. FROM THE LIBRARY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL’S MOTHER, JENNIE CHURCHILL…

DAY 8 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

Here is an intriguing obscurity among the 12 highlights that we are sharing over these twelve days of “Twelvetide” from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue:
Day 8. A UNIQUE WORLD WAR I RECRUITMENT PAMPHLET.

DAY 7 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

Over these twelve days of “Twelvetide,” as we share 12 highlights from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue, it seems worth mentioning that the catalogue does feature a copy of the rarest Churchill book in the world.

DAYS 5 & 6 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

Over these twelve days of “Twelvetide” we are sharing 12 highlights from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue. Having taken Sunday off, we are back with two highlights for the price of… well, two highlights. Both are signed First Editions of Churchill’s Second World War Memoirs.

DAY 4 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

Over these twelve days of “Twelvetide” we are sharing 12 highlights from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue.
TODAY: #4  A Signed First Edition Presentation Copy of GREAT CONTEMPORARIES “From Winston.”

DAY 3 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

Over these twelve days of “Twelvetide” we are sharing 12 highlights from our new 40th Anniversary catalogue.
TODAY: #3 From The Library of Sir Winston Churchill – A Churchill Bookplate.

DAY 2 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

We’re rather proud of our new 40th Anniversary catalogue.
Over these twelve days of “Twelvetide” we thought we would share with you 12 highlights from it.
TODAY: #2 A Signed First English Edition of LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Inscribed in the Month of Publication.

DAY 1 OF “TWELVETIDE” CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS

We’re rather proud of our new 40th Anniversary catalogue.
Over the next twelve days of “Twelvetide” we thought would share with you 12 of its highlights.

#1: A Signed Formal Wartime Portrait Photograph Of Winston Churchill As Prime Minister

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WINSTON CHURCHILL!

November 30, 2022 was Winston Churchill’s 148th Birthday.

Celebrate with our new 40th Anniversary catalogue, out today. 

As per tradition.

POST-ELECTION PAINTING AS A PASTIME

In the aftermath of a grueling election season, one imagines that Winston Churchill simply painted.

With a little help from the New York Times, we can join him, vicariously.

DISASTROUS P.M.s AND THEIR AFTERMATH

Attaining and ignominiously losing the position of British Prime Minister is hardly a contemporary phenomenon. Winston Churchill was virtually no one’s choice to succeed the deposed Neville Chamberlain in 1940. Sometimes disastrous Downing Street defeats actually play out for the best.

WINSTON CHURCHILL AND BANNED BOOKS

To a bookseller especially nothing is more noxious than the banning of books. This week has been Banned Books Week, a commemoration and a celebration of books banned from schools and libraries in this country. We didn’t want to let it go without sharing our adamant support for the banning of the word “Banned” where books are concerned.