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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….

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…

THE WORLD CRISIS: The Story of World War I

-First American Abridged and Revised Edition (Third Printing)-

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….

CHURCHILL’S HOUR

-Signed First English Edition-

By: Michael Dobbs

…and signed by the author on the title page in ink: “We shall never surrender, Michael Dobbs.” There is a former-owner’s seal debossed on the front free endpaper, else fine….

JESTERS IN EARNEST

Cartoons by the Czechoslovak Artists Z.K.A. Hoffmeister, A. Pelc, Stephen, W. Trier

By: Foreword by David Low

…dramatic dust jacket, which has fractional losses and tape-repaired closed tears but is overall intact. The contents are fine, with a former-owner’s circular seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper….

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Rebound First Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

…discreet and quite artful former-owner initial ink inscription on the front free endpaper that reads: “E.S.E, Myore, 1898,” as well as a tiny ink stamp from a Bombay bookseller on…

KIM

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: Rudyard Kipling [Illustrated by Richard M. Powers]

…the front pastedown and a dated inscription is written in green ink on the front free endpaper. Else fine. The original International Collectors Library prospectus for this title is laid-in…

HENRY JAMES: LITERARY CRITICISM (Volume Two)

[French Writers; Other European Writers; Prefaces to the New York Edition]

By: Henry James

…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT: STORIES, NOVELS, AND ESSAYS

By: Charles W. Chesnutt

…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS: NOVELS, 1886-1888

[The Minister's Charge, April Hopes, Annie Kilburn]

By: William Dean Howells

…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….

SERGEANT EADIE

-First American Edition-

By: Leonard H. Nason

…There is a former-owner name and address in ink on the front free endpaper and a discreet vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Else fine. [One of 6 AEF novels.]…