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NO POEMS, Or Around The World Backwards And Sideways

-From the Library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…free endpaper.The book is virtually mint and the contents are fine, with transfer toning to the front pastedown from Faribanks’ bookplate. There is a charming vintage bookshop sticker affixed to…

PLUCK AND LUCK

-From the Library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…ink on the upper edge of the front free endpaper. Robert Benchley and Douglas Fairbanks were close friends and drinking buddies. Fairbanks’ library contained copies of most of Benchley’s books….

SECRET SESSION SPEECHES

-Signed Presentation First English Edition Inscribed to Churchill's Personal Secretary-

By: Winston S. Churchill

This very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper to one of Churchill’s premiere post-war personal…

THE TREASURER’S REPORT & Other Aspects of Community Singing

-Signed First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks-

By: Robert Benchley (Drawings by Gluyas Williams)

…star Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the second front free endpaper, opposite the title page. Save for some light fraying to the cloth at the spine head…

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

-Later Impression of the First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…save for ink inscriptions on the front free endpaper. Published three months after the First Edition. Laid-in is an original “Home University Library” bookmark mailer from the publisher Thornton Butterworth….

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

-Wartime English "Revised" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…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….

LES GENS D’AFFAIRES (ROBERT MACAIRE)

-French Edition-

By: Honoré Daumiere

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….

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S HANNA HOUSE: The Client’s Report

-First American Edition-

By: Paul and Jean Hanna

A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket preserved in a removable acid-free mylar protective wrap.

THE INVENTION OF LIBERTY: 1700-1789

-First American Edition-

By: Jean Starobinksi

…on the spine at the title. The jacket is preserved in a removable acid-free mylar protective wrap. The book is virtually mint, save for faint scuffing to the lower page-tips….

THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1918

-First English "Times Book Club" Abridged One-Volume Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

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…

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

By: Anthony Burgess

Buy a copy now and we will donate it in your name to a Little Free Library for Banned Books Week.

HAROLD NICOLSON DIARIES AND LETTERS: 1930-1939

First English Edition (Second Printing)

By: Harold Nicolson (edited by Nigel Nicolson)

A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jackets. The contents are fine, with an ink gift inscription on the front…