Search Results: Authors starting with R from Churchill Book Collector

London: Putnam, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. This jacketed British first edition is a noteworthy association and presentation copy, bearing the compliments slip of the man whom the author, translator, and publishers acknowledge immediately following the title page, General Sir Reginald Wingate. WingateÂ’s 5 x 2.5 inch compliments slip is laid in at the title page and printed in two lines: “WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF | GENERAL SIR REGINALD WINGATE.” Wingate (1861-1953, first baronet), was a British army officer and colonial governor who spent almost his entire professional career in Egypt and Sudan. It was the Mahdist insurrection led by Mohammed Ahmed that fundamentally shaped WingateÂ’s career. A messianic Islamic leader in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the 19th century, Mohammed Ahmed found fertile political ground in the inhabitantsÂ’ resentment engendered by the corruption of and oppression by Egyptian rulers who had long dominated the region. Mahdists occupied most of… Read More

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Professional Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. This copy of the first edition is signed by the author and has a lengthy gift inscription from Navy Cross recipient General James F. Lawrence (Brigadier General, USMC, Ret), to whom the book is dedicated, to his Marine brother, Bob Lawrence. The authors signature, Dick Humphreys is inked in black on the front free endpaper verso, facing the title page. The lengthy gift inscription, also inked in black, fills the front free endpaper: 9/15/98 For: Bob Lawrence Marine! This book is about D (Dog) Company, one of the three rifle companies in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, my outfit in Korea. I helped Col Dick Humphreys in writing the book as he so graciously indicates. The picture on the dust jacket was taken as our Battalion was fighting our way out of Hagaru-ri on 6 Dec. 1950 Im just out of the picture on the right. Picture also on p.223. Your devoted brother, Jim Lawrence BGen USMC (Ret) The book is near fine in… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second, limited American edition and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly compelling presentation copy of a striking limited edition of the authors second published book. This copy not only retains the original dust jacket, but is also inscribed by the illustrator and signed by the author. Robert Frost signed his name in the blank lower right margin of his frontispiece portrait by the illustrator, James Chapin. Chapin himself inked a warm gift inscription in five lines on the front free endpaper recto: To Max & Ruth who, | in sympathy watched | the growth of this | garment | James Chapin. Opening with the famous poems "The Pasture" and "Mending Wall," North of Boston bolstered Frosts newly minted literary reputation and precipitated his return to the United States from England. In 1919, his American publisher issued this second and limited edition of 500 copies. The binding features a dark green linen spine over lighter green,… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. J. J. Lankes. This is a jacketed and inscribed first trade edition, first printing of the book that won Robert Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost inked this copy in eight lines on the front free endpaper recto with the final five-line stanza of the poem Our Singing Strength (printed at p.110): Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown | The countrys singing strength thus brought together, | That through repressed and moody with the weather, | Was none the less there ready to be freed | And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed. | Robert Frost | For | John Stuart Groves. The sole previous ownership mark we find in the book is the small, illustrated Morocco bookplate of JOHN STUART GROVES affixed to the front pastedown. Groves (1881-1958) was an accomplished Delaware bibliophile. On 1 January 1933 Frost wrote Dear Mr. Groves: I shall be glad to write my name in your copies of my books. I have a warm place in… Read More

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of an early biography of Churchill that concludes during his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer. It provides an interesting view of Churchill in mid-career. Condition is good. The navy cloth binding is tight with unfaded color and bright gilt on the front cover and spine. The binding shows some wear and scuffing, including bumps to the lower corners, wear to the bottom edges, joints, and spine ends, and a mild forward lean. The contents show mild age-toning. We find no previous ownership marks and trivial spotting appears confined to the prelims. "Certainly no Party of which he is a member - be it a political Party or a dinner-party - ever lacks the spur of his stimulating personality. Age, if he ever grows old - which seems extremely doubtful - must mellow him... He no longer takes himself with such preternatural seriousness as in earlier years, but he is taken far more… Read More

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of an early biography of Churchill that concludes during his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer. It provides an interesting view of Churchill in mid-career. Condition approaches very good plus. The navy cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners, unfaded color, and vivid gilt on the front cover and spine. Scuffing is minimal and light wear is primarily confined to extremities, including wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are bright with a crisp feel. We find no spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is a name in pencil on the front free endpaper recto. The fore and bottom edges show mild age-toning, the top edges light shelf dust. "Certainly no Party of which he is a member - be it a political Party or a dinner-party - ever lacks the spur of his stimulating personality. Age, if he ever grows old - which seems extremely doubtful - must mellow him... He no… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition of Eleanor Roosevelts first book, Its Up to the Women. Eleanor published this book in 1933, concurrent with the first inauguration of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in part as a declaration of her intended transformative approach to the role of First Lady. This example is a strikingly bright and clean, fine example in a very good minus dust jacket. The light teal cloth binding printed in dark teal and black is beautifully clean, square, and tight with sharp corners and no appreciable wear. The contents are likewise remarkably clean, free of spotting or previous ownership marks. The deckled fore and bottom edges are likewise immaculate. The top edge shows only a trivial hint of shelf dust. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original $1.25 front flap price, and substantially complete, with only fractional loss to the joint and flap fold extremities. The jacket is also notably clean. There is a… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is a signed first edition, presumed second printing of the first of Eleanor RooseveltÂ’s biographical writings (followed by 1949Â’s This I Remember and 1958Â’s On My Own). On the half title page, below the printed title, she signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” in black ink. The copyright page neither explicitly states “First Edition” nor makes mention of further printings. Since we have observed that the third printing was so-stated on the copyright page, we speculate that this is a second printing of the first edition. Condition is good plus in a good plus dust jacket. The light blue cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded, though slightly mottled with shelf wear, including a few dents to the bottom edges and a hint of sunning to the edges where sun snuck past the dust jacket. The publisherÂ’s name “HARPER” is ghosted onto the spine from the dust jacket. The contents are clean, with no previous ownership marks and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Eleanor Roosevelts (1884-1962) memoir spanning her husbands governorship of New York to his death in 1945 at the beginning of his fourth presidential term is signed James Roosevelt by her son on the front free endpaper recto. The binding is medium blue cloth with a dark blue spine label printed in gilt and bracketed by triple gilt rules and with Eleanor Roosevelts facsimile signature in black on the lower front cover. The contents feature deckled fore edges. An illustrated dust jacket in red, gold, white, and black features a portrait of Eleanor by Yousuf Karsh on the front face. Condition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners. The chief defects are light overall mottling of the cloth and minor shelf wear to extremities. The contents remain respectably bright with no spotting and no previous ownership marks other than the authors sons signature. Lest there… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. This is a presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt to Emerson J. Griffith, Director of Oregon's Works Projects Administration (WPA) during the presidency of the authors husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanors inscription, inked in three lines in black on the half title, reads To Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Griffith | with warm regards & thanks | Eleanor Roosevelt. Affixed to the facing front free endpaper recto is the illustrated bookplate of EMERSON J. GRIFFITH prominently displaying Timberline Lodge with Mt. Hood in the background. Condition is very good in a good plus dust jacket. The binding of quarter black cloth over brick red cloth-covered boards is square, tight, and clean with only trivial shelf wear to the corners and spine ends. The contents are clean with no spotting. FIRST EDITION is helpfully printed on the title page verso. Mild age-toning appears substantially confined to the otherwise clean page edges.… Read More