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RABBLE IN ARMS

-International Collectors Library Edition-

By: Kenneth Roberts

…in red leatherette, with ribbon marker. The contents are fine, with a previous owner’s bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. The publisher’ original prospectus for this title is laid-in….

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…

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…

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….

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….

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….

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…

INTO BATTLE

-The First Volume of Winston Churchill's War Speeches-

By: Winston S. Churchill (Compiled by Randolph Churchill)

…dark rub on the upper edge of the front face, else fine. The book is lovely, virtually mint, save for a discreet former-owner name in ink on the front free…

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….

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….

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….

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…