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A. J. B. from Winston S. C. " - The penultimate volume of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill's history of the First World War, inscribed and dated six days prior to publication by Winston S. Churchill to former Prime Minister Arthur J. Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty when Churchill was forced to resign and "whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics" Churchill "enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years"

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1929

A Boy's Will, the first binding state of the first edition, signed by Frost

by Robert Frost

London : David Nutt , 1913

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin

London : John Murray , 1871

The Grand Alliance, the U.S. first edition of the third volume of Churchill’s history of the Second World War, inscribed and dated in the year of publication to Lady Davina Woodhouse - the daughter of Churchill’s first great love, widow of one Second World War hero, wife to another, and former mistress to Churchill's foreign secretary

by Winston S. Churchill

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1950

“I am sure that your Editor will understand how fully occupied I am at the present time…” Two typed, signed letters – one from Winston S. Churchill 10 days before he became wartime Prime Minister and one from Churchill’s Private Secretary less than a month into Churchill’s premiership – both regarding a German-Jewish journalist émigré who escaped Hitler’s Germany only to be deported by the British as an “enemy alien”

by Winston S. Churchill

Admiralty House, London 1940

“…I feel I can count upon you at any time when a need may arise…” - A 17 July 1922 autograph signed letter from then-Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston S. Churchill to T. E. Lawrence "of Arabia" accepting Lawrence's resignation from the Colonial Office, accompanied by the original franked envelope addressed and initialed in Churchill's hand, the letter and envelope archivally framed with a limited and numbered intaglio drawing of Lawrence and Churchill by Curtis Hooper, signed and numbered by Churchill's daughter, Sarah

by Winston S. Churchill

Colonial Office, Downing Street, London 17 July 1922

Ian Hamilton's March, the U.S. first edition, only printing, signed by Churchill during his first lecture tour of the U.S. and Canada

by Winston S. Churchill

New York : Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1900

The New Grant White Shakespeare. The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakespeare. Set Number 4 of the Old Stratford Edition, complete in 18 finely bound volumes

by William Shakespeare, with Memoir, Introductions, and Notes by Richard Grant White, Revised, Supplemented, and Annotated by William P. Trent, Benjamin W. Wells, and John B. Henneman

Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1912

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, inscribed by Frost with the final stanza of his poem "Our Singing Strength"

by Robert Frost, with four woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes

New York : Henry Holt and Company , 1923

North of Boston, the first edition, first issue, final binding state, signed by Frost in 1924, the year he won his first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with Frost's notation of the location of the cottage in England where he was living when North of Boston was published and the year of publication, 1914

by Robert Frost

London : David Nutt , 1914

Official Admiralty Second World War photo of General Bernard Law Montgomery and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser on the Flagship HMS Duke of York, signed and annotated by Montgomery as Commander in Chief of the British Group of Armies one month before the Normandy landings

H.M.S. Duke of York : British Admiralty Press Division , 1944

The People's Rights, the exceptionally rare Daily News binding variant of the first issue, first state

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1910

A Roving Commission, a presentation copy inscribed and dated in New York City by Churchill on Christmas 1931 during his convalescence weeks after a near-fatal accident

by Winston S. Churchill

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1930

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1898

The Story of 150 Staging Post and the Airlift to the Yalta Conference February 1945 A truly singular Second World War album belonging to, and compiled by, R.A.F. Group Captain Walter J. Pickard, containing meticulously captioned photographs and mementos of his work flying VIPs during the 1945 Yalta Conference, a number of “Secret” docu

by Compiled by R.A.F. Group Captain Walter J. Pickard, inscribed by Winston S. Churchill and with contributions or signatures of dozens of others

Saki, Crimea, U.S.S.R. : Privately compiled , 1945

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, the first edition with interesting provenance

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1898

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War The family copy of Lieutenant-Colonel James Loughnan O'Bryen of the 31st Punjab infantry, whose death in action on 2 October 1897 is described and eloquently mourned by Churchill at pp.245-7, accompanied by a small archive including an original drawing of

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1898

TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH-WEST MANCHESTER: the extravagantly rare publication of Winston S. Churchill's campaign address from the first election he contested as a Liberal, including the only copy known to us of the accompanying perforated canvassing leaf soliciting supporters

by Winston S. Churchill

2, Swan Court, Market Street, Manchester : William Hough & Sons , 1 January 1906

Thoughts and Adventures

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1932

The World Crisis, full set of six British first edition, first printings, in dust jackets

by Winston S. Churchill

London : Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1923