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THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

-First English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…light scratches on the rear face. The front free endpaper is excised and there is very faint damp-staining to the front pastedown only. The contents are otherwise fine and unfoxed….

THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

-First Keystone Library Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…a dated former-owner’s name in ink discreetly on the front free endpaper and faint flap shadows, front and rear. The contents are fine. Especially rare thus. The Keystone Library was…

THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

-First Keystone Library Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…of an erased former-owner name in ink visible on the front pastedown and again on the front free endpape, plus an ink gift inscription on the verso of the frontis…

IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH

-First English Edition (Second Printing)-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…affixed to the front pastedown and a former owner name is discreetly inked on the second front free endpaper. The prelims and fore-edges are lightly foxed. The contents are fine….

THE SILENT MIAOW

A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats

By: Paul W. Gallico [Translator and Editor]; Photographs by Suzanne Szasz

A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket of the Sixth Printing of the First Edition, missing only an excised front free endpaper, else fine. Gallico’s book of instructions…

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

A very good copy of the Third Edition, without dust jacket. The contents are fine, with a previous owner’s dated name inked on the front free endpaper. Translated from German…

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…

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….

A SENSIBLE LIFE

By: Mary Wesley

…Later Printing of the First English Edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine, with a former owner’s dated initials discreetly inked and on the front free endpaper….

RICHARD MEIER ARCHITECT: Volume 2

-First American Edition-

By: Preface by Richard Meier/ Essays by Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert

A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint. The jacket is preserved in removable acid-free mylar protective wrap.

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….

STRUCTURES OF THE MODERN WORLD: 1850-1900

-First American Edition-

By: Eugénie De Keyser

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