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Churchill, Winston. Navy Estimates: Statement by Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on the 27th February, 1940. London: H.M. Stationery Office Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto pamphlet (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers. A scarce pamphlet presenting a statement by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, asking Parliament to grant more money to the Navy to meet the threat from Nazi Germany. He says it would not be prudent to give exact numbers in public. But he does expect a significant escalation in hostilities: "We must clearly expect that attacks will be delivered upon the sea-power by which we live, on which all depends, on a far greater scale than anything we have so far beaten back and beaten down."Churchill also discloses, apparently for the first time, that a battleship torpedoed a few months earlier was the Barham and that the battleship Nelson had been damaged by magnetic mines. He goes on to say that the… Read More

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm), xiv, 303, [1] pages in publisher's original tan cloth, black titles to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper to Kathryn Cravens, a broadcast journalist (spelled here as "Kathrin"). Paul Schwarz was the German consul general in New York, resigning when Hitler came to power in 1933. Full of chatty details about German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop as well as an analysis of the rise of Hitler and his henchmen. Laid in is an envelope addressed to Kathryn Cravens. It contains a post card featuring a caricature of Schwarz (along with his written greetings) as well as a newspaper clipping. Cravens's bookplate, originally glued to the front pastedown, is loose. CONDITION: Top edge dusty, a few small stains along the top and bottom edges of the cloth. Internally, some pencil marginalia, mostly in the first third of the book, offsetting to a few pages… Read More