Britain
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Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women’s history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain’s Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rulers, Queens and fortunes.
The O.D.N.B. entry for her notes that the work evidences the author’s turn in the 1830s (and that of her sister, the co-author, Elizabeth) towards biography, history and the original manuscripts that she and her sister were shown in the British Museum Library. This is the New Edition, with Corrections and Additions, published by Henry…
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CHURCHILL. WINSTON. SPENCER. THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914, 1915, 1916-1918-parts 1 and 2, The Aftermath, The Eastern Front.
Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1923-31 FIRST EDITION, 1st impressions of all volumes. 6 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents. Fine leather bound set in recent full dark blue morocco leather. Spines with raised bands. Red Morocco title labels ruled and lettered in gilt.…
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CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S. WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle; The Unrelenting struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.
Cassell and Company. London. 1941-46 FIRST EDITION, 1st impressions. 7 Volumes. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). A complete set of first editions and 1st impressions of Churchill’s war speeches. A few pages with some light foxing but overall this is a clean and fine set which has been finely bound in recent full dark blue…
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Pepys, Samuel; Bright, Mynors; Wheatley, Henry B.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, For the First Time Fully Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A., Late Fellow and President of the College, with Lord Braybrooke’s Notes; Edited, with Extensive Additions, in…
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Thomas, Dylan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Published in Britain in 1940, the first edition, first printing. An unusually good copy of Thomas’s celebrated work of fiction published in 1940 and the first edition anywhere of a volume described by the publisher as “one of the most outspoken and audacious books of its kind.” Thomas’s semi fictional portrait of his life as…
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Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys’s masterpiece. A fine copy of the original British edition in a fine unclipped dust jacket. The cover has a couple of tiny creases, and otherwise looks practically new. Red boards denote first printing. Contents are fresh and clean. No pastedowns. Accompanied by a bright dust jacket presenting a continuous illustration of the estate…