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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,…
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…
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…
LITERARY TREASURES OF 1926
…Winston Churchill’s essay about the French World War I Generals Foch and Cemenceau (pages 225-227), first published earlier that year in Cosmopolitan Magazine. A very good copy, worn along the…
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….
MOSCOW TO STALINGRAD: Decision in the East
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. Reprint of a volume in the Army Green Series World War II history….
CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY
A Political Biography
As-new, in dust jacket. First headline-making revisionist history by a very good writer whose opinions about Churchill and World War II were notoriously muddled. (See also: “CHURCHILL’S GRAND ALLIANCE” #2693)…
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…
“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…
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….
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…