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THE WORLD CRISIS

-First American Edition Set in Dust Jackets with Original Slipcase-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…is not through-cut; the printed price remains. The book is similarly mint, inside and out, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the lower corner of the front free endpaper….

THE POST-WAR SPEECHES

-First English Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

…head and a hint of light foxing. The contents are fine, with a former-owner’s dated bookplate on the front free endpaper. EUROPE UNITE jacket is price-clipped but quite well-preserved, save…

SUICIDE

A Study in Sociology

By: Emile Durkheim

…the Third Printing of the First American edition, without dust jacket. There is a former-owner’s name ink-stamped on the front free endpaper and again on the rear pastedown. Else fine….

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 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….

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….

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

-First English Edition (Sixth Impression) 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….