London: Cassell and Company, 1948. Full leather. Six volumes. Octavo. All First Edition. The Second World War. Signed and dated to volume one of the blank endleaf Winston S. Churchill 1954. Title include The Gathering Storm 1948, Thier Finest Hour 1949, The Grand Alliance 1950, The Hinge of Fate 1951, Closing the Ring 1952, Triumph and Tragedy 1954. Illustrated with folding maps and diagrams. Handsomely bound by Bayntun Binders in full navy blue morocco, spine gilt in six compartments of stylized rosette motif, gilt titles, raised bands, all edges gilt, covers single gilt rule line with a gilt hologram of Winston Churchill signature, leather and gilt turn-ins, decorative marbled endpaper, housed in a blue cloth slipcase. A Splendid First Edition. More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Leather_bound. Four volumes. Octavo. The Life of John Marshall. Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755 - 1788. Portrait illustrations throughout. Bound in three quarter red morocco between cloth boards, gilt motif to spine, gilt title, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpaper. More

Edinburgh: Longmans, Green and Co. 1894 - 1898. Full leather. Thirty-two volumes. Octavo. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. The Edinburgh Edition consists of one thousand and thirty-five copies all are numbered which this is 376,portrait illustrated frontispiece,Titles include Notes on Edinburgh, Memories and Portrait, In The South Seas, St.Ives, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, The New Arabian Nights, A Child Gardenof Verses. Bound full navy blue morocco, triple gilt rule to covers, spine gilt in compartments between raised banding, second and fourth compartments gilt titles, top edge gilt, leather turn-ins, marbled blue endpaper.Volume 1 - 28 are the Edinburgh Edition. The final 4 volumes are the Letters, 1901(2 Vols) and the Life, 1899 (2Vols) not part of the Edinburgh Edition.Complete with a tipped portion of an A.L.S. with the signature of Robert Louis Stevenson in volume one. More

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Full leather. Ten volumes. Octavo. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited and chronologically arranged on thr basis of the standard text with certain additional material and with a critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. The Book Lover's Eldorado Edition is limited to ten hundred and fifty sets and which this is number 588. Bound in full dark brown morocco, git floral decorations to covers and spine, raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, leather turn-ins, green silk doublures. More

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1948. Leather_bound. Six volumes. Octavo. First Edition. The Second World War, by Winston Churchill. Titles include The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing The Ring, Triumph and Tragedy. Bound in three quarter red morocco between cloth boards, spine gilt decorations of lion and crown motif, gilt title, raised bands, top edge gilt, decorative marbled endppaper. Winston. More

Washington DC: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905. Leather_bound. Ten volumes. Thick octavo. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Definitive Edition containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Manual, Official Papers, and Other Writings, Official and Private now Collected and Published in Thier Entirety for the First Time.Including all of the original manuscript, deposited in the Department of State and published in 1853 by order of the Joint Committee of Congress, with numerous illustrations and a comprehensive analytical index. Andrew A. Lipscomb, Chairman Board of Governors Editor -in- Chief, Elbert Ellery Bergh Managing Editor.Issued under the auspices of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States.Illustrated with portrait, maps, facsimile letters and documents and notable landmark places. Twenty volumes combined into ten, bound in three quarter blue calf (spine faded even brown) marbled boards, gilt title and decorations to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpaper. A very rare and handsome set in leather binding. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Full leather. Twenty-four volumes. Thick octavo. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt the Memorial Edition. Prepared under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and Herman Hagedorn editor. This edition is printed on watermark rags paper which has Roosevelt initial embedded and limited to one thousand and fifty copies which this is number 483. Volume one of limitation page signed in black ink Edith Kermit Roosevelt. illustrated frontispiece to each volume.Bound by the publisher Charles Scribner's Son in a deluxe and rare leather binding in full tan crushed morocco, delicate blind tooling to spine of the U.S. great seal emblem, raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, mosaic blind tooling to covers with foliage and double and quadruple rule line. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Full leather. Twenty-four Volumes. Thick octavo. Ruisdael Edition. The Novels And Other Writings Of Lyof N. Tolstoï. This edition is limited to one hundred and fifty copies printed on Ruisdael paper which this is copy 62. Portrait and other illustrations in two states to frontispiece with tissue guard. Title include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Long Exile, What is Art, What is Religion, Resurrection, The Invaders, Childhood Boyhood Youth, The Death of Ivan Ilvitch, etc. Bound elaborately in full crushed maroon morocco, covers densely gilt decorations wide swirling frame featuring flowers and broad-leaf plants with curling leafy vines quadruple gilt line to corners, top edge gilt, raised bands, gilt titles, spine gilt in compartments of acanthus leaves and stems motif, inner cover gilt rule and a central green and maroon morocco, moiré green silk endleaves. A beautiful collected novel of Tolstoï with a intricate and stunning binding. More

London: Edward, Charles, Dilly, 1878. Full leather. Eight volumes. Octavo. Plutarch Lives, Translated from the original Greek with notes critical and historical and a new life of Plutarch, by john Langhorne and William Langhorne, Thrid Edition, illustrated frontispiece.Bound in full tree calf marbled board, spine gilt decotations, black and red title labels, decorative endpaper. More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Cmpany, 1897. Leather_bound. Two volumes. Octavo. First Edition. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson The Embodiment Of The Sea Power Of Great Britain, containing particular account of his victories by sed and land voyages. Nineteen full page portraits and twenty-one maps and diagram plans.Bound by Bayntun Binders in three quarter navy blue morocco over cloth boards, top edge gilt , spine gilt decorations of ship anchor, and sail ship between raised banding, gilt title, decorative endpaper. More

Philadelphia: George Barrie and Son, 1900s. Full leather. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo. The Secret Memoirs Of The Courts Of Europe From The 16th To The 19th Century. This Edition printed on Japanese vellum paper and is limited to one thousand numbered copies which this is 262. Illustrations in two states to frontispiece chromolithograph other sepia (black & white shade). Tilte include Empress Josephine, The Courts of Sweden and Denmark, Wiliam II, Francis Joseph, The Courts of Europe, Napoleon's Court, The Court of Austria, The Royal Family of France, Madame De Montespan, Marie Antoinette, etc.Bound by Brentanos in full olive green crushed morocco, covers framed alternating densley floral spring surrounded triple and double gilt ruled line to corners, top edge gilt, spine gilt decorations within six compartments between raised banding second and third gilt titles, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. A handsome set in fine binding. More

London: The Groiler Society, 1900s. Full leather. Fifteen volumes. Octavo. Days Of The Dandies. The Edition Magnifique is limited to twenty-six copies which this is lettered S, each volumes contains hand-colored frontispiece and at least two additional plates and illustrated with over 75 plates throughout set with title tissue guard.Bound handsomely in a contemporary gray morocco, covers and spine with sixteen red tudor inlaid morocco and with gilt brown and green shade inlaid of scrolling foliations leaves and a central crest to front covers, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt titles, inner covers of green and gray morocco surrounding gilt floral sprays, green silk doublures, housed in a slipcases. The Groiler Society's Days Of The Dandies. these entertaining biographies of notable 20th -century English authors and personalities include Peg Woffington, Colley Cibber, Lady Montagu, Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpoe, Beau Hash, Nanny Burney, Mrs. Jordan, and Captain Gronow. More

London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Leather_bound. Seven volumes. Octavo. The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round The World, complete with twenty-five plates and maps and with portrait to frontispiece. A handsome set of the official accounts of Cook's Three Voyages. Cook's first voyages tranist Venus this was accomplished at Thaiti and spend traveling New Zeland and which Cook's circumnavigated and charted east coast of Australia which was named it New South Wales. Cook's expedition second voyages Botany Bay, first crossing of the Antarctic Circle and Furthur explorations undertaken New Hebrides, New Caledonia, South Georgia, the final voyages Northwest passage from the Pacific in the Hawaiians Island.Handsomely bound in three quarter brown calf binding, green barbled boards, spine in six compartments between raised banding and gilt floral device, gilt title, decorative endpaper. More