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WINSOR, Kathleen.
Star Money. Préface d'André MAUROIS.
Broché. 479 pages, couverture illustrée. Etat d'usage. [AZ]
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Winston Churchill, Philip Guedalia, G K Chesterton, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Andres Maurois, Hilaire Belloc, H A L Fisher, Harol
If Or History Rewritten Alternative History; Published In London As "If It Had Happened Otherwise:. Lapses Into Imaginary History": If The Moors In Spain Had Won; If Don Juan Of Austria Had Married Mary Queen Of Scots; If The Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam; If Louis Xvi Had Had An Atom Of Firmness; If Drouet's Cart Had Stuck; If Napoleon Had Escaped To America; If Byron Had Become King Of Greece; If Lee Had Not Won The Battle Of Gettysburg; If Booth Had Missed Lincoln; If The Emperor Frederick Had Not Had Cancer; If It Had Been Discovered In 1930 That Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare
New York: The Viking Press 1931. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Ox 379 Pp. Cream Cloth Spine Gilt On Brown Plum Cloth Boards. First American Edition 1931 Dates On Title And Copyright Pages Three Uk Reviews On Rear Panel Of Dj Published Previously In 1931 By Longmans London As "If It Had Happened Otherwise. Lapses Into Imaginary History" . The First London And New York Printings Are Both Very Scarce In Dust Jacket. Book Near Fine Bright Except For Some Browning To Spine Cloth Where Dust Jacket Above Was Chipped And Slight Browning To Endpapers. Dj Price Clipped Worn Browned Chipped Particularly A Large Loss Of Almost 1/3 Of Bottom Of Spine And Spine Panel Detached From Front Panel. <br/> <br/> The Viking Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 045174
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Winston S Churchill, Ronald Knox, Emil Ludwig, H A L Fisher, Andre Maurois, J C Squire, G K Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Harold N
If It Had Happened Otherwise
London: Longmans Green and Co. 1931. First edition. Hardcover. This the first edition first printing of the first volume appearance of Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". This copy is rendered doubly compelling by being an elusive binding variant and retaining the rare and striking dust jacket. <br /> <br />This jacketed copy the only we have offered - is very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket. The green cloth binding is square and tight with bright spine gilt and sharp corners. We note only light soiling to extremities. The contents remain bright with a crisp feel and no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the bright yellow dust jacket flaps confirming that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting is heavy to the top edge lighter to the fore and bottom edges occasionally intruding into the blank inner margins. The distinctive dust jacket printed in green and black on yellow stock is complete apart from fractional loss to the spine head and unclipped retaining the original lower front flap price. The spine shows only slight toning and minor wear is substantially confined to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable clear archival cover. <br /> <br />Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930 as part of a series of "What If" articles by eminent authors of the time. In 1931 Longmans published this book-length work on the same theme including Churchill's piece at pp. 173-196. This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and oddly we find it scarcer than copies of the original magazine publication. It becomes genuinely rare thus in the original dust jacket and is rendered an elusive prize when found in this variant binding of the British first edition first printing. Per Churchill's bibliographer Ronald I. Cohen this variant binding is "Bound in moderate bluish green embossed calico-texture cloth" as opposed to red cloth and slightly reduced page size from 235 x 151.2 mm to 217 x 140.7 mm. <br /> <br />Churchill's essay herein displays the commanding grasp of history and the facility for extrapolation that made him so formidable as both a statesman and a writer. Moreover his interest in America's great struggle was quite serious; Churchill toured Virginia battlefields with the great Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman and toured Gettysburg with none other than Dwight Eisenhower. Thirty years later Churchill would publish a book on the subject The American Civil War 1961 excerpted from his epic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. <br /> <br />Reference: Cohen B43.1.b Woods B18. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 008157
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Winston S Churchill, Ronald Knox, Emil Ludwig, H A L Fisher, Andre Maurois, J C Squire, G K Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Harold N
If It Had Happened Otherwise finely bound
<p>London: Longmans Green and Co. 1931. First edition. Half leather. This is the first edition first printing of the first volume appearance of Winston S. Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930 as part of a series of "What If" articles by eminent authors of the time. In 1931 Longmans published this book-length work on the same theme including Churchill's piece at pp. 173-196. <br /><br />We commissioned this magnificent binding in half red Morocco goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards. The hubbed spine features gilt tooling on and framing the raised spine bands as well as twin dark brown spine labels. The covers feature gilt rule transitions between the Morocco spine and corners and the marbled-paper sides. The contents are bound with matching marbled endpapers silk head and foot bands and gilt top edge. The newly commissioned binding is flawless. The contents are crisp and clean with no previous ownership marks. The only appreciable soiling is a small stain to the upper fore edges that does not intrude on the contents within as well as an incidental hint of spotting confined to the fore edges. <br /><br />This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and oddly we find it scarcer even than copies of the original magazine publication. Churchill's essay herein displays the commanding grasp of history and the facility for extrapolation that made him so formidable as both a statesman and a writer. Moreover his interest in America's great struggle was quite serious; Churchill toured Virginia battlefields with the great Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman and toured Gettysburg with none other than Dwight Eisenhower. Thirty years later Churchill would publish a book on the subject The American Civil War 1961 excerpted from his epic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. <br /><br />Reference: Cohen B43.1.a Woods B18 <br /><br /></p> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 006122
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Written by Andre Maurois; translated by Shigeru Kokucho, Haruo Takahashi
think of the present
Futami shobo 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 228p Plate size: 19cm Futami shobo paperback
书商的参考编号 : 2083002117801711
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WWII (Interest); Maurois, Andre (Foreword)
Le Merveilleux Voyage De La Goutte De Vitamine
New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies 1942 Color printed card covers with blue comb binding comb with one break offsetting opposite artwork as usual. The book originated as a thank you message from a classroom of 5 & 6 year-olds in unoccupied France to the Americans for sending vitamins. Seven watercolors and hand-lettered text tell the tale of a humanized vitamin that makes its journey from the United States to France. Reproduced here the original French text is accompanied by the English translation by Jeannette A Marandon. The book was sold for $1 at the time for the benefit of the agency's relief efforts for the children of unoccupied France. Rare especially in such nice condition. First And Only Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Oblong 12mo. Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 009257
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