…front face and a closed tear along the lower, but overall the jacket is impressively bright and complete. The red cloth is vibrantly fresh, if faintly faded from red to…
…editions was quite poor due to colonial climate conditions. This miraculous survivor, in its original decorated cloth binding, is virtually free of wear, retaining vivid color and just a faint…
…and the contents are fine, with a front hinge that is just beginning to give. The pastedowns and free endpapers, front and rear, are ink-stamped: “Training School For Nurses, Toronto…
…just a touch of rubbing near the upper front edge. There are two handsome, vintage bookplates, one on the front pastedown, one on the front free endpaper. The contents are…
…the front free endpaper. The bookplate of the legendary Churchill collector Donald Scott Carmichael loosely tipped-in on the front pastedown. The contents are clean and unfoxed. An exceptionally fine copy….
…an unclipped dust jacket that is a later printing, with a barcode on the verso. The contents are fine, save for a small ink notation on the front free endpaper….
A beautiful book with a very significant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: “For my darling Mary from Mummie, Christmas 1943.” MARY CHURCHILL (nee Soames), Winston and…
…a Second Impression copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine, with an owner name discreetly in ink on the front free endpaper…..
This very good First English edition copy was formerly owned by Winston Churchill’s younger brother, Jack Spencer-Churchill, whose bookplate is affixed to the front free endpaper. Subtitled,“The Phenomena and Causes…
…in an unclipped dust jacket is signed by the author: “With warmest regards, Theodore A. Wilson” on the front free endpaper. There is also a former owner’s ink dated name….
…There is a previous owner’s bookplate on the front pastedown; the prelims are foxed; there is faint pencil writing on the front free endpaper; the pages are age-toned; contents fine….
…and at the head and tail of the spine; else fine. A previous owners name and a date are written in ink on the front free endpaper; the interior pages…