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SAVROLA
-“Sevenpenny Library” Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-
…front face and a closed tear along the lower, but overall the jacket is impressively bright and complete. The red cloth is vibrantly fresh, if faintly faded from red to…
MY AFRICAN JOURNEY
-First Canadian Edition-
…just a touch of rubbing near the upper front edge. There are two handsome, vintage bookplates, one on the front pastedown, one on the front free endpaper. The contents are…
THE EPIC OF JUTLAND
-From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill-
…the front free endpaper reads: “Winston from Leonie. Nov. 1930.” The bookplates of both Winston Churchill and Randolph Churchill are affixed to the front pastedown. The book is in very…
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
-First American Edition Set-
…a neatly repaired front hinge break in Volume II. Both volumes have a date inked on their front free endpapers, the contents of both are otherwise fine, clean and unfoxed….
“TRUST THE PEOPLE”
A Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, Ayr,[Scotland] May 16th, 1947
“By the interplay of ideas within the scope of a free, patriotic and democratic State we resolve to … preserve the true and enduring splendour of our island home.” A…
SAVROLA
-First American Edition-
…the front free endpaper. The bookplate of the legendary Churchill collector Donald Scott Carmichael loosely tipped-in on the front pastedown. The contents are clean and unfoxed. An exceptionally fine copy….
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
-Wartime Presentation Copy Signed to Mary Churchill from “Mummie”-
A beautiful book with a very significant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: “For my darling Mary from Mummie, Christmas 1943.” MARY CHURCHILL (nee Soames), Winston and…
CHURCHILL: THE MAKING OF A HERO
…hardy wartime survivor. The cloth is spotted, the contents are foxed, the front free endpaper has been excised, yet the book is intact and the cloth is bright and unfaded….
THE MEMOIRS OF LORD CHANDOS
…a Second Impression copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine, with an owner name discreetly in ink on the front free endpaper…..
ISLAND LIFE
-From the Library of Winston Churchill’s brother, Jack Churchill-
This very good First English edition copy was formerly owned by Winston Churchill’s younger brother, Jack Spencer-Churchill, whose bookplate is affixed to the front free endpaper. Subtitled,“The Phenomena and Causes…
THE FIRST SUMMIT: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941
-Signed First English Edition-
…in an unclipped dust jacket is signed by the author: “With warmest regards, Theodore A. Wilson” on the front free endpaper. There is also a former owner’s ink dated name….
THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND DIVISION
1914-1916 (Volume 1)
…There is a previous owner’s bookplate on the front pastedown; the prelims are foxed; there is faint pencil writing on the front free endpaper; the pages are age-toned; contents fine….