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Featured Member
Churchill Book Collector
San Diego, CAhttp://www.churchillbookcollector.com
Published and original material by and about Winston S. Churchill, including first and collectible editions, inscribed copies, correspondence, and ephemera. Subsidiary specialty in T.E. Lawrence. Curated inventory of noteworthy first and collectible editions spanning exploration and empire to highpoints of twentieth century literature.
Selections from Member's stock
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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 volumesby 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
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The World Crisis, full set of six British first edition, first printings, in dust jacketsFirst Editionby Winston S. Churchill
London : Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1923
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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, SarahSignedby Winston S. Churchill
Colonial Office, Downing Street, London 17 July 1922
offered by Churchill Book Collector
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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 docuSignedby 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
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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 supportersFirst Editionby Winston S. Churchill
2, Swan Court, Market Street, Manchester : William Hough & Sons , 1 January 1906
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New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, inscribed by Frost with the final stanza of his poem "Our Singing Strength"Signed First Editionby Robert Frost, with four woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes
New York : Henry Holt and Company , 1923
offered by Churchill Book Collector
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