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THE DEVIL FISH. - an original printed appearance of this Second World War cartoon featuring...

THE DEVIL FISH. - an original printed appearance of this Second World War cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill from the 29 November 1939 edition of the magazine Punch, or The London Charivari

by Artist: Bernard Partridge

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London: Punch, 1939. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "THE DEVIL FISH." appeared thus on p.593 of the 29 November 1939 issue of Punch. The artist is Bernard Partridge. The cartoon is captioned "(With Mr. Punch's best wishes to the First Lord of the Admiralty on his sixty-fifth birthday.)" Churchill had spent nearly the entirety of the 1930s in the political wilderness, out of power, out of favor, and frequently at odds with both his own Conservative Party and prevailing public sentiment. Then came the terrible vindication of the outbreak of the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 Churchill was restored to the Cabinet, appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, reprising the role… Read More
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THE DEVOUT SCEPTIC. - an original printed appearance of this cartoon featuring Winston S....

THE DEVOUT SCEPTIC. - an original printed appearance of this cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill from the 20 February 1929 edition of the magazine Punch, or The London Charivari

by Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill

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London: Punch, 1929. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "THE DEVOUT SCEPTIC." appeared thus on p.199 of the 20 February 1929 issue of Punch. The artist is Leonard Raven-Hill. The image is captioned "Mr. Churchill. 'I HAVE THE PROFOUNDEST CONFIDENCE IN THE GOOD SENSE OF THIS LARGE, INSCRUTABLE AND, AS I FEAR, APATHETIC AND UNTRUSTWORTHY MONSTER.' (The above remark is based upon the impression left by Mr. Winston Churchill's recent speech at the Queen's Hall.)" The cartoon refers to the speech Churchill made at the Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union Meeting at Queen's Hall in London on 12 February 1929. The speech was widely covered in the press and reprinted as a 16-page… Read More
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DOVER BELLS GREET MR. CHURCHILL AS NEW LORD WARDEN - An original press photograph of Winston S....
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London: Copyright Keystone Press Agency Ltd., published by The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 1946. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Winston S. Churchill dressed in his regalia for his installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on 14 August 1946. The gelatin silver print on matte photo paper measures 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Condition is very good. The paper is clean and the image clear, with only light wear and slight cockling to the edges. This photograph features hand-applied retouching to the uniforms and painted crop markings in white on the left and right sides of the image. The verso features the copyright stamp of “Keystone Press Agency Ltd.”, and a “PUBLISHED” stamp of “The Daily Telegraph” dated “15 AUG 1946”. There are two captions affixed to the verso. The first is a newspaper clipping of the caption as it appeared in print that reads “MR. CHURCHILL inspecting the guard of honour at Dover Castle yesterday after being installed Warden of the Cinque… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the suspended tensions of domestic politics as well as the complex jockeying for postwar spoils among allies intruded ever more urgently on a unified war effort. Churchill would be unable to hold the many political fractures and frustrations at bay for much longer. Indeed, the very day this British first edition of The Dawn of Liberation was published (26 July 1945) Churchill formally conceded the fall of… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes. The British first editions are visually striking, but were printed on cheap War Economy Standard paper, bound in coarse cloth, and wrapped in bright, fragile dust jackets. They proved highly susceptible to spotting, soiling, and fading, so the passage of time has been hard on most surviving first editions. This first edition, first printing is very good minus in a good plus first printing dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, tight, and clean with sharp corners, bright spine gilt and only modest wear to extremities. The contents are internally bright. The chief defect that leads us to grade this copy as only very good minus is prominent spotting to the page edges. Spotting is light internally, primarily confined to the… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

by Winston S. Churchill

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1945. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, first printing of the fifth volume of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill's war speeches. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the suspended tensions of domestic politics as well as the complex jockeying for postwar spoils among allies intruded ever more urgently on a unified war effort. Churchill would be unable to hold the many political fractures and frustrations at bay for much longer. This may explain why only 3,500 copies of this U.S. first edition, first printing of The Dawn of Liberation were… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of British Prime Minister Winston S Churchill's war speeches. This copy is noteworthy for interesting - though cryptic - postwar provenance. At the top of the front free endpaper recto is a three-line inscription: "To John | A great liberator, with much love | from the family at Clive House". In the same hand and ink, at the left upper center of the page is written "St Andrews Day |1945". Filling the bottom half of the page beside and below are the signatures of more than 50 individuals, both male and female, none with any apparent titular distinction. This would be an intriguing mystery to puzzle out. Condition is very good in a good plus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is clean, unfaded, tight, and square with bright spine gilt. Minor shelf wear is confined to extremities, including a bruised upper front cover corner. The contents are quite… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the suspended tensions of domestic politics as well as the complex jockeying for postwar spoils among allies intruded ever more urgently on a unified war effort. Churchill would be unable to hold the many political fractures and frustrations at bay for much longer. Indeed, the very day this British first edition of The Dawn of Liberation was published (26 July 1945) Churchill formally conceded the fall of… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill's Second World War speeches. Condition is good. The blue cloth binding is tight, clean, and unfaded with bright spine gilt. The front board has a slight outward warp and the binding a slight forward lean. The contents show no previous ownership marks, though there is spotting, primarily confined to the first and final leaves and the text block edges, which also show some age-toning. This volume publishes Churchill’s speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the… Read More
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The Dawn of Liberation

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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the suspended tensions of domestic politics as well as the complex jockeying for postwar spoils among allies intruded ever more urgently on a unified war effort. Churchill would be unable to hold the many political fractures and frustrations at bay for much longer. Indeed, the very day this British first edition of The Dawn of Liberation was published (26 July 1945) Churchill formally conceded the fall of… Read More
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Deirdre, an author's presentation copy of the first edition with the author's signature,...
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Deirdre, an author's presentation copy of the first edition with the author's signature, inscription, and manuscript poem

by James Stephens

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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. James Stephens was both a poet and novelist, and in this presentation copy both skills are on display. This author’s presentation copy of the first edition is inscribed in sixteen lines filling the front free endpaper recto: “Dear Major Whitall: | At the end of this book there | should be a small poem | thus: | After great heat, great frost | Comes following. | Turgesius was lost | By the daughter | Of Maelshaughlin the King | By Grania of high Ben Ghulban | In the North | Was Diarmuid lost. | The strong sons of Uisneach | Who never submitted | They fell by Deirdre | James Stephens”. The only previous ownership mark in the book besides the author’s inscription is the elaborately gilt and printed small leather label of “W.VAN.R.WHITALL” affixed to the facing front pastedown. Major William Van R. Whitall of Pelham, New York, was apparently a significant collector; the 1927 sale of his library at the American Art Galleries… Read More
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin

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London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first printing. Quarter leather. This is the first edition, first impression of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex – his first book to apply the term “evolution” - in a striking contemporary fine binding. The binding features quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, with blind tooled transitions between the boards and calf corners and spine. The spine features raised, gilt-decorated bands framed by double gilt rules, a black title panel, and gilt devices adorning undecorated compartments. The boards, endpapers, and page edges are all marbled in a matching nonpareil combed pattern, creating a compelling aesthetic consistency. First impression of the first edition is confirmed by issue points; in Volume I, “transmitted” is the first word on p.297; Volume II has errata on the title page verso (seventeen errata for Volume I and eight for Volume II) and a tipped-in “Postscript” at unpaginated pp. ix-x referring… Read More
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Despatch to the Officer Administering the Government of the Kenya Colony and Protectorate...
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Despatch to the Officer Administering the Government of the Kenya Colony and Protectorate Relating to Native Labour

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This scarce pamphlet dates from Winston Churchill's time as Secretary of State for the Colonies. The document is six pages, measures 9.75 x 6 inches (24.8 x 15.25 cm), and includes a four-page message "to the Officer Administering the Government of the Kenya Colony and Protectorate", concluding with Churchill's printed signature. It is unknown how many copies were printed, but the survival rate of this perishable item seems to be quite low. This copy is in very good condition, complete with no tears or losses and only minimal age-toning. We note stains along the left edge where this copy once lay against another pamphlet with corroded staples, and an indecipherable, one-inch diameter circular ink stamp in the upper left front cover. There are no other previous ownership marks. On January 1, 1921, Prime Minister David Lloyd George asked Churchill to become Colonial Secretary. Churchill received the Seals of… Read More
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The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, copy #92 of the extraordinary limited edition
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The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, copy #92 of the extraordinary limited edition: The Diary kept by T. E. Lawrence while traveling in Arabia during 1911" and "the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press”

by T. E. Lawrence

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London: Corvinus Press, 1937. First, finely bound, limited, and hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly well-preserved copy of the scarce and extraordinarily beautiful 1937 Corvinus Press limited first edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, which has been called “the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press.” Of the entire edition of 203 copies, 130 were printed thus on sumptuous, mould-made “parchment substitute paper” with gilt top edge and untrimmed fore and bottom edges, bound with 13 tissue-guarded collotype plates of photographs “taken by the author during the time the diary was being written.” These are bound in quarter brown leather with the gilt-stamped title bracketed by a gilt-stamped Corvinus Press crow at each end of the spine. The covers feature beautifully textured chirigami kozo boards with parchment corners. It was issued by the publisher in a seldom-seen brown card slipcase. This copy is hand-numbered “92” on the limitation… Read More
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Die Ander Dors
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Die Ander Dors

by Elisabeth Eybers

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Johannesburg: Constantia, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007) was a South African poet. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1934. In 1943, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize, the most prestigious award in Afrikaans literature. This volume, one of a thousand copies of the first edition, is fine in a near-fine dust jacket. The burgundy cloth binding is clean and bright with no wear, square corners, and bright spine gilt. The contents are tight and clean with no spotting or previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is crisp and unfaded with trivial wear at the spine ends and a hint of soiling to the blank rear face.
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Die Helder Halfjaar
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Die Helder Halfjaar

by Elisabeth Eybers

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Johannesburg: Constantia, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007) was a South African poet. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1934. In 1943, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize, the most prestigious award in Afrikaans literature. This volume contains verse in Afrikaans, and is bound in illustrated dark red cloth. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The binding is square, tight, and clean with bright gilt and no visible wear. The contents are tight, clean, and free of spotting. There is a single previous owner's inscription in pencil on the ffep. The illustrated gray dust jacket is crisp, bright, clean, and complete, trivially marred only by two small pencil lines on the front face. One of a thousand copies produced for this first edition.
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The Dream

by Winston S. Churchill, with an Introduction by Richard M. Langworth and Afterword by Winston S. Churchill (the author's namesake grandson)

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Delray Beach, Florida: Levenger Press, 2005. Hardcover. Here is the beautiful Levenger Press edition, as-new in the original publisher's box. The Dream is Churchill's revealing essay about a ghostly reunion with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in which Winston recounts the world events that have transpired since his father's death - without revealing his own role in them. The Dream was first published a year after Churchill's death, on 30 January 1966, in the Sunday Telegraph. This extremely attractive edition was produced by Levenger Press in 2005. It is bound in blue-gray leather stamped in silver. The cover bears a drawing by Churchill's daughter. It is an oversize book, measuring 8.75 x 8.75 inches. In addition to the original text it contains a facsimile reproduction of a 2-page letter from a young Winston Churchill to his father, an Introduction by Richard M. Langworth, and an Afterword by Churchill's namesake grandson, Winston S. Churchill. It was originally issued by Levenger Press in… Read More
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The Dream

by Winston S. Churchill, with an Introduction by Richard M. Langworth and Afterword by Winston S. Churchill (the author's namesake grandson)

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Delray Beach, Florida: Levenger Press, 2005. Full leather. Here is the beautiful Levenger Press edition, in near fine condition in the original publisher's box. The binding shows just a trivial few blemishes. The contents are immaculate. The publisher's box shows only superficial scuffs and dings to the edges. The Dream is Churchill's revealing essay about a ghostly reunion with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in which Winston recounts the world events that have transpired since his father's death - without revealing his own role in them. The Dream was first published a year after Churchill's death, on 30 January 1966, in the Sunday Telegraph. This extremely attractive edition was produced by Levenger Press in 2005. It is bound in blue-gray leather stamped in silver. The cover bears a drawing by Churchill's daughter. It is an oversize book, measuring 8.75 x 8.75 inches. In addition to the original text it contains a facsimile reproduction of a 2-page letter from a young Winston Churchill to… Read More
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The Dream, copy Number 178 of 500
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The Dream, copy Number 178 of 500

by Winston S. Churchill

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Contoocook, New Hampshire: Churchill Literary Foundation, 1987. First and Limited Edition. Full leather. This is a pristine copy of the first book publication, the finely bound limited first edition, Number 178 of 500 hand-numbered copies. The Dream is Churchill's revealing essay about a ghostly reunion with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in which Winston recounts the world events that have transpired since his father's death - without revealing his own role in them. Winston Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, died in January 1895 at age 45 following the spectacular collapse of both his health and political career. His son Winston was 20 years old. A few years later, Churchill sought permission to write his father's biography and then spent two and a half years researching and writing - a major literary effort, but apparently an emotional one as well. Of the work, Churchill wrote to Lord Rosebery on 11 September 1902 "It is all most interesting to me - and melancholy too" (R. Churchill, WSC,… Read More
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...don't believe that I'll be a famous man. - A 21 November 1919 autograph letter signed by T. E....
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...don't believe that I'll be a famous man." - A 21 November 1919 autograph letter signed by T. E. Lawrence, noteworthy for capturing Lawrence on the cusp of the overwhelming celebrity that would indelibly render him "Lawrence of Arabia"

by Thomas Edward Lawrence, T. E. "Lawrence of Arabia"

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Unknown, 1919. Letter. This is a 21 November 1919 autograph letter signed by T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” to an admirer who apparently requested his autograph. Lawrence’s letter is noteworthy for a number of reasons, among them for being signed with his surname “Lawrence” rather than the “Shaw” surname he would soon assume and use for the rest of his life; for capturing Lawrence on the cusp of the fame he would spend the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject; and for explicitly mentioning the man who was making a fortune by making Lawrence uncomfortably famous even as this letter was being written. At the time, Lawrence was still fifteen-and-a-half years away from his untimely death. That summer, Lawrence had taken the first steps to realizing his pre-WWI ambition to set up a private press with his Oxford Friend, Vyvyan Richards, by purchasing a property on the edge of Epping Forest. He had only just begun the famously long and tortuous process of writing his… Read More
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