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29 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Ian Hamilton’s March. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900 First edition, first issue, without textual corrections. Ian Hamilton’s March is a sequel to London to Ladysmith , and completes Churchill’s coverage of the Boer War, describing the liberation of the Boer prison camp where Churchill had been held captive, and the march of Ian Hamilton’s mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg. Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, black endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton after John Singer Sargent, 9 wood-engraved maps and plans in text, 1 folding map in partial colour to rear. Cloth sometime cleaned, small faint mark to front cover, a few nicks at spine ends, initial and final leaves with some toning and spotting. A very good copy. ¶ Cohen A8.1.a; Langworth, pp. 58–60; Woods A5. £750 [153946] 30 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd, 1948–54 Inscribed to the wife of a political friend and rival First UK editions, inscribed by the author on the title page of the first volume, “Inscribed for Lady Addison by Winston S. Churchill, 1948”, with the Addison bookplate to the same volume, and with a
28 CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude. 75. Essay and Interview by Paul Goldberger. Cologne: Taschen, 2010 SIGNED BY CHRISTO First edition, number 220 of 1,100 copies signed by Christo; from a total edition of 1,510. Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, this comprehensive overview of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects up to 2010 was designed by Christo himself. Conceived originally to mark Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s 75th birthdays, it features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, drawings and plans, a detailed history, and in-depth interviews, including Jeanne-Claude’s final public conversation about her work, who died in 2009, a year before publication. The duo is perhaps best remembered for wrapping architecture and natural elements in fabric, such as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or The Gates in New York’s Central Park. Folio. Original hessian cloth, titles to front cover and spine in red. Housed in the publisher’s hessian clamshell box, titles to front cover and spine in red. Photographs throughout by Wolfgang Volz, many full page. Book fine, some rubbing to text of clamshell box. £3,750 [153820]
loosely inserted note on the Churchill’s Hyde Park Gate letterhead inscribed “With Mrs. Churchill’s compliments 13 November 1948”. The recipient, Lady Dorothy Addison (1895–1982), was the wife of the long-serving politician Christopher Addison (1869–1951). Initially both ministers in Lloyd George’s Liberal government, Churchill and Addison parted ways politically after 1922, Churchill switching to the Conservatives, Addison to Labour. Although then political rivals, their “friendship extended over forty years” (O’Morgan, p. 280). Addison served as minister of munitions (1916–17), of reconstruction (1917–19), of health (1919–21), and agriculture (1930– 31), among other posts, as well as serving as lord keeper of the privy seal (1947–51) and leader of the House of Lords (1945–51). “The most notable doctor ever to be involved in British politics, he played a much underestimated part, in two periods of war and reconstruction, in making Britain a welfare democracy and a more humane society” ( ODNB ).
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