Search results for: 'the works'
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-76
First complete collected edition of Churchill's writings, published to mark the centenary of his birth, a splendid and imposing set of the works of the great wartime leader and statesman, whose extensive writings in the varied fields of history, biography, fiction, and essays were rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
The Centenary... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 149888
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works.London : 1939
First one-volume edition published by Nonesuch. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 140202
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed to the sculptor Herbert Haseltine, thanking him for a sculpture.1 May 1958
Typed letter signed from Churchill to the French-American sculptor Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962), on his Hyde Park Gate letterhead, 1 May 1958: "My dear Haseltine, Thank you so much for sending me yet another of your beautiful works. I think the statuette is most graceful and of great merit. I admire it very much, and am happy indeed to have it in my... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 149502
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![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/148042.jpg)
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.London : 1872 & 1879
An attractively bound set of early editions of Carroll's classic works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the 59th thousand, and Through the Looking-Glass the 27th thousand. These books earned the author "a place in the firmament of the great, for they are not only acts of imaginative genius but they also revolutionized writing for children" (ODNB).... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148042
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CONRAD, Joseph. The First and Last of Joseph Conrad.London : 1929
First collected edition, attractively bound. This omnibus brings together four novels by Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" (1895) and "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896) were his first two published works; "The Arrow of Gold" (1919) and "The Rover" (1923) were two of his last. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 146609
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.London : 1956-58
First editions, first impressions, of Churchill's great history, paired with an original typed letter signed from Churchill to the French-American sculptor Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962), on his Chartwell letterhead dated 20 April 1957, thanking him for a sculpture he presented: "My dear Mr. Haseltine, Papa Percheron has arrived. I am indeed indebted... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138386
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.London : 1956-58
First editions, first impressions, of Churchill's great history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States.
Churchill began his history during his period in the political wilderness in the early 1930s, but did not complete it until the latter 1950s, after his final retirement as Prime Minister. The events of the Second World War, the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144266
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Secret of Chimneys.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. Copies in such bright condition are uncommon. The work is considered one of Christie's best early thrillers. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 149401
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CROWLEY, Aleister. Moonchild.London : 1929
First edition, first impression, of one of Crowley's best known works, in notably bright condition. Moonchild is "a novel about the magical pursuits and feuds of Crowley's day with many recognizable personalities... at times very amusing in its bizarre vituperation despite formal flaws" (Sullivan, pp. 106-7).
This copy has later annotations by... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 145012
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures, Great Contemporaries, Step by Step.London : 1947
A presentation set to his pilot, inscribed by the author on the initial blank of My Early Life "To Air Commodore G. Powell from Winston S. Churchill 1948", signed on the initial blank of Thoughts and Adventures, and initialled in the following two volumes.
Powell recounts the story of the volumes in his memoirs: "In my Ferry Command days my job... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 138000
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CROWLEY, Aleister. Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light.London and Felling-on-Tyne : 1907
Signed limited edition, number 28 of 100 copies only in black cloth, signed on the frontispiece. This copy additionally has a loosely inserted manuscript copy of Crowley's comic poem "Blow the tom-tom", written in pencil in his hand with corrections and strike-throughs. Crowley has later added an inked note at the foot of the poem: "See K. O. P." -... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 149223
