181 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the Covenant. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938 First edition of this important collection of Churchill’s speeches warning of the dangers of a re-armed Germany, given during his “wilderness years”, 1928 to 1938, when his warnings were unpopular and unheeded, but soon proved to be remarkably prescient. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Spine lightly sunned, minor peripheral bumping, slight spotting to endpapers and toning to half-title; a very good copy. ¶ Cohen A107; Woods 44a. £450 [156439] 182 CHURCHILL, Winston S The Second World War London: The Educational Book Company Ltd, [1955] First edition of the Chartwell Edition, produced upon the completion of The Second World War to incorporate Churchill’s final revisions and much enhanced by the addition of numerous plates from official photographs. 6 volumes, large octavo. Original red cloth, brown labels and gilt panels to spines, portrait medallion embossed on brown label on front covers, red endpapers, top edges red. Coloured frontispiece in each volume, 185 half-tone plates, numerous maps, plans and diagrams, many of them folding. Slight rubbing to labels as usual, very minor sunning to spines, contents clean and unmarked. A very good set. ¶ Cohen A240.7.b. £750 [157673] 183 CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: The Educational Book Company Ltd, 1956–58 The Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of Churchill’s great history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States, the second overall. 4 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt-panelled spines with red sheep labels, front covers lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges blue, blue and white endbands. With plates, diagrams and tables throughout. Slight rubbing, tiny peripheral chips to labels, very minor bowing to covers, contents clean; a very good copy. ¶ Cohen A267.2. £500 [154307]
178 CERVANTES, Miguel de. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922 First de Bosschère edition, attractively bound and illustrated. Jean de Bosschère (1878–1953) was a Belgian writer and painter who fled Belgium at the start of the First World War and went to London where he met writers such as Aldous Huxley, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot, and several London publishers for whom he illustrated numerous books in the 1920s and ‘30s. Quarto (272 × 213 mm). Mid-20th-century brown half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt tooling in compartments enclosed by twin rules, single blind fillet trimming sides and corners, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. With 25 plates, many in colour or printed on coloured paper stock, numerous illustrations in the text, by Jean de Bosschère. Binding square and firm, foxing to edges and outer leaves, faint damp stain to upper margins of initial leaves, text clean, colour plates bright. A very good copy indeed. £650 [157340] 179 CHRISTIE, Ella R. Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1925 Second edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “with all best wishes for 1942 from the writer, Ella R. Christie, Cowden”. This scarce work is Christie’s narrative of her two trips to Russian Turkestan in 1910 and 1912, described by Robinson as “objective, articulate, and scholarly”.
Octavo. Original orange textured cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover with black illustration of Bactrian camels (partially from illustration opposite p. 25). Half-tone photographic frontispiece and 15 similar plates, mostly illustrated recto and verso, full-page map in the text. With 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Spine slightly cocked, a touch of rubbing, minor scattered marks to covers, scattered foxing mostly to fore edge. A very good copy in bright cloth. ¶ Robinson, p. 40. £850 [157103] 180 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Marlborough. His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933–38 First editions. Churchill’s biography of the first Duke of Marlborough, his ancestor who led British forces to victory against Louis XIV, “took its place at once among the classics of historical writing” ( ODNB ). 4 volumes, large octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Marlborough crest gilt to front covers, top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to each volume, 99 additional plates, 14 facsimiles of letters, and 182 maps and plans, several folding. Neat ownership signature dated Christmas 1935 to front pastedown of vol. II. Unevenly sunned, vol. I a little more so with light soiling to covers, some foxing to contents and edges. A very good set. ¶ Cohen A97.2(I–IV).a; Langworth pp. 166–8; Woods A40(a). £975 [155191]
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