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THE TREASURER’S REPORT & Other Aspects of Community Singing

-Signed First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…star Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the second front free endpaper, opposite the title page. Save for some light fraying to the cloth at the spine head…

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (Selections From)

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: Sir Richard Burton (Translation)

…marker. There are professionally repaired breaks to the outer joints, front and rear. The contents are fine, with an elaborate ink gift inscription and drawing on the front free endpaper….

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: T.E. Lawrence

…endpaper, a dated gift inscription to a previous owner written in blue ink on the front free endpaper and a newsphoto of Lawrence tipped-in at the rear. The contents are…

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

-Signed First One-Volume Unabridged Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

This unique mint copy in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “To R. Randolph Bruce from Winston S. Churchill. With all good…

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

-First English Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…frontis photo tissue guard is missing from Volume I (present in Volume II). The tissue guard is also missing from the photograph of Lady Randolph Churchill after page 72. The…

NO POEMS, Or Around The World Backwards And Sideways

-From the Library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…free endpaper.The book is virtually mint and the contents are fine, with transfer toning to the front pastedown from Faribanks’ bookplate. There is a charming vintage bookshop sticker affixed to…

PLUCK AND LUCK

-From the Library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…ink on the upper edge of the front free endpaper. Robert Benchley and Douglas Fairbanks were close friends and drinking buddies. Fairbanks’ library contained copies of most of Benchley’s books….

MY TEN YEARS IN A QUANDARY And How They Grew

-Signed Later Printing of the First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

This very good copy of a Later Printing of the First Edition, without dust jacket, is signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Dear Jr. This is one of…

SECRET SESSION SPEECHES

-Signed Presentation First English Edition Inscribed to Churchill's Personal Secretary-

By: Winston S. Churchill

This very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper to one of Churchill’s premiere post-war personal…

THE WORLD CRISIS

-First American Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…more faded spine and dented corners. The front hinge is beginning to give and there is a bookplate on the front pastedown. VOLUME III: Parts 1 & 2 (Books 3…

CHURCHILL’S HOUR

-Signed First English Edition-

By: Michael Dobbs

…and signed by the author on the title page in ink: “We shall never surrender, Michael Dobbs.” There is a former-owner’s seal debossed on the front free endpaper, else fine….

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

-Later Impression of the First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…save for ink inscriptions on the front free endpaper. Published three months after the First Edition. Laid-in is an original “Home University Library” bookmark mailer from the publisher Thornton Butterworth….