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GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised" Edition-
…the front face, worn and faded on the spine. The contents are fine with an ink gift inscription on the half-title, dated: “12.4.41.” The front free endpaper has been excised….
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Later English Edition Set: The Property of Winston Churchill's Nephew, John Spencer Churchill-
This very good later English edition set, in dust jackets, was the property of Winston Churchill’s nephew, John Churchill, whose name is hand-written in ink on the front free endpaper…
CLOUDS OF GLORY: The Life and Legends of Robert E. Lee
-Signed First American Edition-
…Mr. Korda re-illluminates the Civil War’s greatest Confederate general. This mint First American edition copy was signed at Chartwell Booksellers by the author in ink on the front free endpaper….
LES GENS D’AFFAIRES (ROBERT MACAIRE)
-French Edition-
A very good copy, virtually mint, in the original dust jacket and publisher’s plasticine wrapper. The content are fine, with an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper….
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF COLONIAL AMERICA
Two-Volume Boxed Set: Volume 1 "Thirteen Colonies," Volume 2 "Colonial Antiques"
A very good set without dust jackets, in the original pictorial slipcase. There is a short ink gift inscription on the front free endpapers of both volumes. Else fine.
WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT
-First American Edition (Third Impression)
…American edition, without dust jacket. As-new, save for very faint creasing along the spine, three dots of foxing to the fore-edge. Discreetly ink-stamped: “Editorial Copy” on the rear free endpaper….
WRITING IN RESTAURANTS
-Signed First American Edition-
As-new, a virtually mint copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, signed and inscribed by the author in ink on the front free endpaper: “To Jacques…
THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1918
-First English "Times Book Club" Abridged One-Volume Edition-
This a very good copy, without dust jacket, of the rarely-seen First English “Times Book Club” Abridged One-Volume Edition, which is not mentioned in the Cohen bibliography. Aside from the…
CHURCHILL’S HOUR
-Signed First English Edition-
…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….
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-First English Edition (Second Printing)-
…affixed to the front pastedown and a former owner name is discreetly inked on the second front free endpaper. The prelims and fore-edges are lightly foxed. The contents are fine….
STEMMING THE TIDE
-First American Edition-
…and tail. The book is virtually mint and the contents would be fine, save for a large glue shadow from the removal of a bookplate on the front free endpaper…..
JESTERS IN EARNEST
Cartoons by the Czechoslovak Artists Z.K.A. Hoffmeister, A. Pelc, Stephen, W. Trier
…dramatic dust jacket, which has fractional losses and tape-repaired closed tears but is overall intact. The contents are fine, with a former-owner’s circular seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper….