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TOBACCO CARD: “Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, ‘Morning Post,’ Special War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. The card measures 2 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches and is in very…
THE CORRESPONDENTS’ WAR
Journalists in the Spanish-American War
The role played by mass print media and especially field correspondents during the Spanish American war was adventurous, celebrated, dangerous and extremely ambiguous. Brown examines the complex relationship between media…
PROPERTY TAKEN DURING THE WAR WITH SPAIN
“Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Board of Officers on Claims for Property Taken for Military Purposes Within the United States During the War With…
THE RIVER WAR
-Rebound From the Centenary Collected Works-
…was taken from Churchill’s later Abridged Edition of THE RIVER WAR. The book is in virtually mint condition. An especially attractive alternative to more common reprintings of THE RIVER WAR….
LAMIA
“The memoirs of a French Underground fighter who became de Gaulle’s Chief of Intelligence in Washington and whose dramatic expose of Soviet infiltration in the French government caused reverberations at…
AFTERNOON LIGHT
Some Memories of Men and Events
This is a surface-dampstained First English edition copy, in dust jacket, of the memoirs of Australia’s gnarly PM. The contents are fine.
ADVENTURES ASHORE AND AFLOAT
-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-
The memoirs of Churchill’s close colleague, the Royal Navy’s Admiral of the Fleet, published just as Churchill was about to return as First Lord of the Admiralty. This is a…
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. (Signed copies are available. See Item # 209948.)
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
-Signed by Lorraine Gordon-
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. This mint First Edition copy is signed by Lorraine Gordon and Barry…
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-New Annotated Edition-
A new hardcover edition of Churchill’s only volume of personal memoirs, superbly annotated by historian James W. Muller, and here published with Churchill’s ethereal, autobiographical short story, “The Dream.”…
A TEXAS RANGER
Jennings served from 1874 to 1878 in Capt. McNelly’s Company. One of the better memoirs of Texas Ranger service, first published in 1899 and reprinted many times. A good copy,…
FLYING FOR FRANCE
With the American Escadrille at Verdun
This is a very good copy of the Third Printing without dust jacket. The pages are age-toned; contents fine. The cloth is mildly faded, particularly the spine; else fine. Memoirs…