Search Results: Authors starting with M from Churchill Book Collector

Johannesburg: MacDonald Purnell, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. This presentation copy of the South African first edition of Nelson Mandelas autobiography was inscribed and dated by him during his presidency. Mandela began writing what would become Long Walk to Freedom clandestinely in prison in 1974. It was published in 1994, the same year that Mandela became President of South Africa. The five-line inscription on the half title reads: To Barry Pecher, | Compliments | & | best wishes | Mandela | 28.3.95. The date is exactly a year and a day after Mandela voted for the first time in his life - in the same election that made him leader of his nation. Condition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The black cloth binding is square, tight, and clean with sharp corners bright spine gilt, and minor shelf wear to extremities. The contents are bright with a crisp feel. Light spotting appears confined to the rear endpaper and page edges, which also show light soiling. The upper right front free endpaper… Read More

Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 2005. De-Luxe Limited Signed Edition. Full leather. This is the signed, limited, and numbered edition, one of 100 copies produced for personal presentation. The binding is half brown Morocco over marbled paper-covered boards with raised spine bands and red Morocco spine label. The profusely and compellingly illustrated contents are bound with printed endpapers and silk head and foot bands. The book is housed in the publisher’s brown cloth-covered slipcase featuring marbled paper ends and spine, rounded, leather capped opening, and an inset photograph of Mandela in the titular prison garden. The limitation page preceding the half title is hand-numbered “82”, and signed by Mandela above his printed name, the “PRESENTED TO” line still blank. Condition is pristine, the binding and contents both immaculately as-new, the slipcase genuinely fine with only trivial shelf scuffing to the bottom edge. Among a myriad of compelling images, captions, and vignettes, Prisoner in… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. This an exceptional, jacketed first edition of Katherine Mansfield’s poems, compiled by her husband, John Middleton Murry and published the year she died of tuberculosis, at the age of 34. The handsome binding features quarter tan linen with dark red Morocco spine label and brown, paper-covered boards. The contents are bound with untrimmed fore and bottom edges and gilt top edge. The book was issued in a tan, laid paper dust jacket printed in dark red on the spine and front face. Condition approaches truly fine in a near fine dust jacket. The binding is square, tight, and pristine, with sharp corners and no reportable wear or blemishes. The contents are immaculate, with no spotting or previous owner names. The small, printed sticker of a New York bookseller – “Edgar H. Wells & Co.” – is affixed to the lower rear pastedown. This is plausibly the original seller of this book; Edgar Huidekoper Wells (1875-1938) operated Edgar H. Wells… Read More

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1934. First edition, only printing. Paperback. This pamphlet publishes Churchill's tribute to his first cousin and "oldest and dearest friend" Charles Richard John, IXth Duke of Marlborough. The string-bound pamphlet in blue-grey card covers measures 7.25 x 5.25 inches (18.4 x 13.3 cm) and is 20 pages in length. Pages 5-11 contain Churchill's tribute and pages 12-18 that of C.C. Martindale (Jesuit author, scholar, and Oxford philosopher). This first edition, only printing is a near fine copy, clean and complete with sharp corners. We note only a hint of wear to the spine ends and a tiny blemish to the lower rear cover that shows also on the rear cover verso and facing verso (blank apart from the name of the printer at the foot of the page). The contents are otherwise clean and bright with neither spotting nor previous ownership marks. Winston met his cousin, the future Duke of Marlborough, in late 1893, and wrote to his mother on 30 December 1893, “I am… Read More

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1934. First edition, only printing. Paperback. This pamphlet publishes Churchill's tribute to his first cousin and "oldest and dearest friend" Charles Richard John, IXth Duke of Marlborough. The string-bound pamphlet in blue-grey card covers measures 7.25 x 5.25 inches (18.4 x 13.3 cm) and is 20 pages in length. Pages 5-11 contain Churchill's tribute and pages 12-18 that of C.C. Martindale (Jesuit author, scholar, and Oxford philosopher). This first edition, only printing is a near fine copy, clean and complete with only the faintest suggestion of wear to the corners. The contents are clean and bright with neither spotting nor previous ownership marks. Winston met his cousin, the future Duke of Marlborough, in late 1893, and wrote to his mother on 30 December 1893, “I am particularly glad to have made Sunny’s acquaintance”. They made good on this beginning. “Winston’s friendship with his cousin became a firm and lasting one, and it remained constant,… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of the second and final volume of A Treatise on Money is quite scarce thus, magnificently clean and jacketed. Published on 24 October 1930, Treatise was “the first of Keynes’s two major contributions to economic theory”. This copy approaches near fine condition in a good dust jacket. The binding is unsullied, square, bright, and tight with vivid spine gilt, sharp corners, and only trivial shelf wear to extremities and a touch of mottling to the upper front cover and lower right spine. The contents are notably bright and clean with a crisp, unread feel. We find no spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is an inked name and “1931” date on the upper left front pastedown. The pages show only mild age toning and light soiling. The rarely-seen dust jacket has shallow losses to the spine ends and the lower rear hinge, none appreciably affecting spine print, with lesser wear and fractional chipping to upper front… Read More

Johannesburg: Hortors Limited Printers, July, 1923. First edition. Pamphlet. Here we offer a 1923 pamphlet concerning gold mining in South Africa. This pamphlet bound tête-bêche in English and Afrikaans is in good plus condition. The wire stitched, pale pink wraps covers are complete and free of tears and loss, with some light overall soiling and one light crease to the front, lower corner. Both binding staples are intact with no rust. This copy is ex-library with a stamp reading “CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY DOCUMENTS DEPT” and a penciled notation “cop. 1” on the front cover. Additionally, the word “mines” on the lower front cover of the English-language side has been underlined in pencil. The contents are bright, clean, and free of toning, spotting, and marking. This fragile African pamphlet is scarce with only four copies found in WorldCat. The 1886 discovery of gold in South Africa was a turning point for the Transvaal on such a scale that “from 1886 the story of South Africa is the story… Read More

New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. James Justinian Morier, (born c.1780, Smyrna, Tur. - died March 19, 1849, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia; its Persian translation (1905) led to the development of the modern Persian novel of social criticism. The first of a series of novels written by Morier after he retired, Hajji Baba drew on the knowledge of Persia and its people that he had acquired on the British embassy staff at Tehr n (1809–15)". (Britannica). This volume is near fine in a very good dust jacket. The publisher's illustrated cloth binding is bright and clean with trivial wear confined to the corners. The contents are clean and tight, slightly age-toned toward the page edges, but with no spotting. There is a single previous owner's name inked on the ffep. The dust jacket illustration mirrors that of the binding.… Read More