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ENGLISH WEAPONS & WARFARE 449-1660
A good overview and reference; Norman was Master of the Armories at the Tower of London. A very good copy, corners lightly worn, in dust jacket with slight edge wear….
1815: The Roads to Waterloo
“An enthralling account of the political, constitutional and social life of [Paris, Vienna and London] in the year leading up to Waterloo.” A fine copy in mylar covered dust jacket….
THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
-First English “Times Book Club” Edition-
This is a very good copy of the rarely-seen [London] “Times Book Club” edition, which was bound from early edition sheets but in a plainer binding of smooth dark green…
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding by “Zaensdorf”-
This First English edition set is a signed binding by the legendary London-based Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (author of THE ART OF BOOKBINDING) in full cognac-colored oasis leather. The endpapers are…
WILLIAM BLAKE
Catalogue for the largest Blake retrospective ever mounted, first at the Tate in London and then at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in New York. This is a very good…
CHURCHILL LECTURE
An Address by Gerald R. Ford at the English-Speaking Union, London, England, November 30, 1983
This is a limited edition fine press printing of former President Gerald Ford’s address at the English-Speaking Union in London on the occasion of Winston Churchill’s 109th Birthday, November 30,…
Original CARTOON from PUNCH Magazine
“Punch’s Almanack for 1921: New Statues for Old”
This original cartoon from the British humor magazine Punch is in very good condition. The caption reads: “The statues of London are admittedly open to improvement. Mr. Punch suggests a…
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
…first in London, by Chatto & Windus, at the end of 1881. The first American edition was published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, in 1882. This Folio Society…
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,…
FLAIR Magazine: “Winston Churchill: Artist”
…then-Director and Keeper of the Tate Gallery, London, John Rothenstein. Rothenstein visited Churchill at Chartwell to interview him for the piece and elicited some of Churchill’s most quotable observations about…
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
-Wartime Presentation Copy Signed to Mary Churchill from “Mummie”-
…Clementine Churchill’s youngest child, spent Christmas 1943 apart from her family, in London, manning a Hyde Park anti-aircraft battery as an officer in the Auxilliary Territorial Service. Her father had…
CHURCHILL’S COOKBOOK
…career as London’s top society caterer to cook for Winston Churchill after his return as First Lord of the Admiralty. She then followed Churchill, as Prime Minister, to No. 10,…