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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Autographed photographic portrait: "Our Skipper". [1941/1950]
£6,500
The photograph was taken late in 1941 and circulated quite widely throughout 1942 in postcard form. For the 1950 general election the Conservative Party revived the image as a poster...
16 x 12 inches. A head and shoulders photograph entitled Our Skipper in the lower margin. Framed behind glass in dark brown wood. Signed "Winston S. Churchill" in the... Read more
EINSTEIN, Albert.
Relativity. The Special & The General Theory. A Popular Exposition. 1920
£3,850
First English language edition, first impression of Einstein's popular treatment of relativity, with the addition of an appendix on "The Experimental Confirmation of the General...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and diagrams throughout. Ownership... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries. 1937
£2,250
First edition, first impression. Series of essays on "Great Men of our age", which includes T. E. Lawrence, Trotsky and Hitler, "We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who...
Octavo, original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. In the dust jacket. 21 plates. Endpapers differentially browned due to the presence of the jacket,... Read more
GRANT, U[lysses] S.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. 1885-6
£1,000
First edition. Mark Twain was resounding in his praise of Grant's prose: "this is the simple soldier, who, all untaught of the silken phrase-makers, linked words together with an art...
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher's de luxe brown half morocco, gilt medallic roundels to the boards, spine gilt in compartments, edges marbled. Engraved portrait... Read more
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A. A. MILNE & E. H. SHEPARD.
The Winnie-the-Pooh Collection [Collectors Edition] 2011
£75
Signed limited edition, deluxe format, one of 100 copies numbered and signed by the collector and American football legend, Pat McInally. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition and...
Quarto (27 × 21 cm). Original blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt. 95 items offered for sale. Fully illustrated in colour. New. Read more
