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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (Selections From)

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: Sir Richard Burton (Translation)

…marker. There are professionally repaired breaks to the outer joints, front and rear. The contents are fine, with an elaborate ink gift inscription and drawing on the front free endpaper….

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: T.E. Lawrence

…endpaper, a dated gift inscription to a previous owner written in blue ink on the front free endpaper and a newsphoto of Lawrence tipped-in at the rear. The contents are…

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

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

By: Winston S. Churchill

This unique mint copy in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “To R. Randolph Bruce from Winston S. Churchill. With all good…

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 WORLD CRISIS: The Story of World War I

-Abridged One-Volume Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…dust jacket, unclipped and intact, with creases and light edge-chipping across the upper edges but fresh overall. The contents are fine, with a vintage bookplate on the front free endpaper….

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….

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Later English Edition Set: The Property of Winston Churchill's Nephew, John Spencer Churchill-

By: Winston S. Churchill

This very good later English edition set, in dust jackets, was the property of Winston Churchill’s nephew, John Churchill, whose name is hand-written in ink on the front free endpaper…