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POWER AND INFLUENCE
…which became the basis for Britain’s post-World War II welfare state under the Labour government elected in 1945. An authority on unemployment insurance from early in his career, Beveridge served…
MUSE OF FIRE (Signed First Edition)
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
By one of our favorite authors, an extraordinarily wide-ranging view of Britain’s trench soldier poets during World War I and the ways in which these different classes of men processed…
SAVROLA
-"Sevenpenny Library" Edition-
This is a very good copy of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” a rather small and fragile clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era. The cloth remains a deep red and…
WINSTON CHURCHILL’S FRAMED CALLING CARD
-With "Chartwell" Inked-In As His New Address-
…(10×15 inches overall) and linen-matted with a vintage black & white postcard-size print (3 3/8 x 5 inches) of James Guthrie’s exquisite post-World War I portrait painting of Winston Churchill….
SAVROLA
-"Sevenpenny Library" Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-
A clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era, this small and rather fragile “Cheap” edition did not age well and its striking dust jacket rarely survived and is virtually never…
SLEEP IN PEACE TONIGHT: A Novel
-Signed First American Edition-
A crackling historical novel of World War II that tracks President Roosevelt’s trusted emissary, Harry Hopkins, as he arrives in London to meet and assess the new British Prime Minister,…
“THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A NEW PARLIAMENT”
Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill at the 21st Annual Conference of the Central Women’s Advisory Committee, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, 21st April, 1948
““There can be no hope for the world unless the peoples of Europe unite together to preserve their freedom, their culture and their civilisation… I have always tried to keep…
“IF THE INVADER COMES” & “BEATING THE INVADER”
-Rare Pair of British Wartime Government Leaflets-
Two British World War II leaflets were distributed to the citizenry of the British Isles in anticipation of a Nazi invasion; IF THE INVASION COMES in June 1940 and BEATING…
WINGS OF GOLD
The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
…military historian Geral d Astor comes the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II….
SWEPT CHANNELS
Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War
A full and detailed World War I history of minesweepers and their crews, derived from their personal experiences. This is a bright and crisp copy of the First English edition,…
MEMOIRS OF BASE HOSPITAL NO. 35
A very significant World War I momento, the memoirs of Base Hospital No. 35 in France from 1917-1919. Bound in original card wraps, which have chipped and frayed but are…
LLOYD GEORGE
War Leader
The fourth volume of Grigg’s definitive biography, covering Lloyd George’s World War I Prime Ministership. This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust…