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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

-Signed First One-Volume Unabridged English Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

This unique mint copy of the First One-Volume English Edition in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “To R. Randolph Bruce from…

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

-First English Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…frontis photo tissue guard is missing from Volume I (present in Volume II). The tissue guard is also missing from the photograph of Lady Randolph Churchill after page 72. The…

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…

THE ROMANTIC WEST: 1789-1850

-First American Edition-

By: Eugénie De Keyser

A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear, else fine. The jacket is preserved in a removable acid-free mylar protective wrap. The book is virtually…

VERSAILLES GARDENS

Sculpture and Mythology

By: Jacques Girard [Translated from the French by Ellen Rosenthal]

…good copy of the First American edition, in a price-clipped, light shelfworn dust jacket now in protective mylar. There is a gift inscription on the front free endpaper, else fine….

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….

MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First Keystone Library Edition (Second Printing)-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…Edition, is in beautiful condition, perhaps a touch faded, else fine. The contents are fine as well, with just some jacket toning to the front and rear free endpapers. A…

SIMPLY CHURCHILL

By: Roy Howells

…The contents are fine, with extra-illustrated newscuttings of reviews and articles related to the publication of this book tipped-onto the front and rear free endpapers and rear pastedown. Fun stuff!…

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Silver Library Edition ("New Impression")-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…decorated endpapers are as in the First Printing (but with the date “1724” corrected from the first printing’s “1726”). There is a vintage award presentation plate on the front pastedown…