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MUSE OF FIRE
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…
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER RETROSPECTIVE
As-new, in dust jacket. Opulent volume presenting works from large museums and private collections throughout the world….
“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…
PRECIPICE: A Novel
…and 26-year-old Venetia Stanley, cousin to Clementine Churchill, a dalliance that almost lost England World War I. By the masterful author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, and Munich….
TYPED LETTER SIGNED to “Mrs. P.” by Winston Churchill
-"…do not worry about anything."-
…and is in very good condition, with light foxing and some creasing, else fine. A very rare window into Churchill’s private working world during his darkest, yet most productive, period….
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-First English Edition-
…half-title list of Churchill works that omits Volume I of THE WORLD CRISIS. Bound in rough pink cloth, this copy is unevenly faded but retains a good deal of vivid…
THE EPIC OF JUTLAND
-From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill-
…have been MY EARLY LIFE, then just-published. Obviously Aunt Leonie reciprocated almost immediately with this copy of her son’s latest work about the epic naval battle of World War I….
POSTWAR Original PRESS PHOTOGRAPH of Winston Churchill
“Churchill Family at Capital”
…Randolph. Britain’s wartime Prime Minister will board President Truman’s special train for Fulton, MO. to give an address on foreign policy there Mar. 5.” The photograph is in very good…
FILM GODDESSES
RARE MOVIE POSTERS FROM THE MOTION PICTURE ARTS GALLERY
It was a treat to exhibit some of the rarest film posters in the world, courtesy of The Motion Picture Arts Galley in 1990. If only we had thought to…
POSTWAR Original PRESS PHOTOGRAPH of Winston Churchill
“Mrs. Roosevelt Lunches With Churchills”
Typed paper caption reads: “Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt shakes hands with Winston Churchill as she left the Hyde Park Gate, London, home of Britain’s wartime prime minister, after lunching with him…
THE RASH ADVENTURER
The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart
Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender, was crushed at the Battle of Culloden, and subsequently slipped off the world stage. A very good copy, corners slightly bumped, spine head &…
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…