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NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. Illus. by Andre Castaigne. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 drawings and photographs, including 6 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 5, March, 1908. Includes Royal Hospitality at Sandringham, The Comtesse de Paris and the League of the Rose, Queen Victoria at the Jubilee, Lord Hartington, and Racing Matters. Illustrations include a view of Sandringham, a view of the dining room, Hardwick Hall, the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, the Presence Chamber, and portraits of King Edward VII when the Prince of Wales, after George Frederick Watts, engraved by C. W. Chadwick, a group portrait of the daughters of Edward inclujding Princess Victoria, Princess Louis, and Princess Maud, Queen Alexandria when Princess of Wales, Princesse Helene D'Orleans, Isabelle, Comtesse de Paris, the Marquis of Hartington, and a group portrait at Sandringham. Housed… Read More

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #4, August, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes war with China, a theater audience, life and customs of the country, a Japanese Summer resort, Tokio, gardens and shops, Nikko and its temples, and the Mikado's Palace. Illustrations include the Randolphs in Japan atop rickshaws, travel in a straw chair, the simple interior of a Japanese home, the uncountable stone images near Nikko, the Yomeimon Gate, a Japanese funera, and a portrait of Lady Churchill from a photo taken in San Francisco. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. Illus. by Andre Castaigne. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 17pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 8 drawings and photographs, including 3 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 4, February, 1908. Includes London Political Society, Friendships with English Statesmen, The Primrose League, and Campaign Experiences. Illustrations include the Ladies' Gallery in the House of Commons, the Harriers at Blenheim, the insignia of the Order of the Crown of India, somewhat of a caricature of The Fourth Party in the House of Commons, showing Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Wolff, and Sir John Gorst, the horse-drawn carriage used in the election contest for Woodstock in 1885 being driven by Lady Curzon, with Lady Randolph Churchill at her side and Lord Curzon standing, and small portraits of Sir William Harcourt, Sir Charles Dilke, and Joseph Chamberlain. Housed in protective mylar… Read More

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #2, June, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Princess Furstenberg, court functions, the Bismarcks, Paris society, General Boulanger, Duchesse de la Tremoille, King Milan, Duc D'Aumale, and Bourget. Illustrations include a full page plate of various royalty, a full-page plate of Prince and Princess Bismarck and family, and portraits of Kaiser William I and Kaiserin Augusta, Sir Edward B. Malet, William I on horseback with Count Von Moltke, Princess Furstenberg and Princess Radziwill in fancy dress in La Fille De Mme. Angot, M. De Breteuil, and General Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. Illus. by Andre Castaigne. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 drawings and photographs, including several portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume 75, No. 3, January, 1907. Official life in Dublin, hunting experiences, the Empress of Austria, a visit to Kilmainham Gaol, and the Juvilee Wonder. Illustrations include a full-page portrait of the Empress of Austria in the costume worn at her coronation as Queen of Hungary, Captain Bay Middleton who rode the horse Empress of Austria in the hunting field, and portraits of Lady Churchill in riding costume, and the Marchioness of Londonderry. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 14pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #5, September, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Lord and Lady Curzon, the Anglo-Saxon Review, and correspondence with contributors. Illustrations include Sir Frank Swettenham and a tiger cub, and portraits of Lord Curzon of Kedelston, Lady Curzon, Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), and Cecil Rhodes from a sketch by the Duchess of Rutland. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, printed in double columns, portrait, numerous photos, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVII, #1, November, 1908. Includes South Africa, Life on the Hospital Ship Maine, Capt Town, a Remarkable Hail Storm, Durban, War Scenes, Visit to Chieveley Camp, Relief of Ladysmith. Illustrations include the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena, Napoleon's home Longwood at St. Helena, Field Marshall Lord Roberts, Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson, Governor of Natal, Cecil Rhodes' house at Cape Town, the Executive Committee of the hospital ship Maine, and Salisbury Hall, St. Albans. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1907. Book. Illus. by Andre Castaigne. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 21pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 drawings and photographs, including several portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 1, November, 1907. Early Recollections of Paris in 1869. Illustrations include Miss Jennie Jerome as a Vivandiere at ten years of age, Miss Jerome again as a young woman, Leonard Jerome, Miss Clara Jerone, later Mrs. Moreton Frewen, the Empress Eugenie, Lady Randolph as a young woman after the drawing by George T. Tobin, the Prince Imperial in uniform at about 13 years of age, Napoleon III and Eugenie, Princesse Mathilde, the Duc De Persigny, Emile Ollivier, and Marechal Bazaine and Mme. La Marechale. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 photographs, including 7 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, No. 1, May, 1908. Includes A Visit to Russia, Domestic Life and Recreations, An Audience with the Czar, Impression of Russian Society, Moscow, and Russian Characteristics. Illustrations include the winter palace at St. Petersburg, the Kremilin at Moscow, and portraits of the Grand Duke Alexander, later Alexander III, and the Princess Dagmar, now Dowager Empress of Russia, the Grand Duke Serge, who was assassinated at Moscow in 1905, the Grand Duchess Serge, or Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Constantini Petrovitch Pobiedonostzeff, the Grand Duke Paul, the Grand Duke Vladimir, and the Grand Duchess Vladimir, or Marie Pavlowna, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, water staining noted mostly at edges, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #3, July, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Lord Randolph's candidature for Birmingham, relations with Lord and Lady Salisbury, the Shah's visit to London, Lady de Grey's salon, Colonel North the Nitrate King, Baron Hirsch, murder and robbery in Paris, visit to Bayreuth, and anecdotes of musicians. Illustrations include Hatfield House, the Grand Dining Hall, the Wagner Theater at Bayreuth, and portraits of Nasr-Ed-Din the late Shah of Persia, Baron Maurice von Hirsch, Colonel North, Lady de Grey, Jean de Reszke, Edouard de Reszke, Franz Liszt, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Anton Rubinstein, and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

New York: Century Co, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. 1908 Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear and moderate handling soil to the boards. Else a clean, tight and sharp copy. This volume has the bookplate of famed later 20th Century Western Pennsylvania entrepreneur and bibliophile, Burt K. Todd.

Edward Arnold, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. Second Impression. 372 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound with original cloth for library. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

New York: The Century Co, 1909. Early Printing. Hardbound. Good/No Jacket. Rare hardbound octavo in navy blue cloth with gold gild lettering; b/w plates passim, clean unmarked text , 470 pp w/appendix. Good cover w/considerable scuffing and shelf wear, some bending and loss at spine and corners, gold gild pages yellowing and acidic but clean and untorn, hinges loose but intact; no d/j. Rare book. 8vo (6.25" x 9").

New York: Century Company. Good+. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding shaken. Board corners and edges bumped and worn. Previous owner's address sticker partly removed from first free endpaper, leaving a small tear. ; Text body is clean and unmarked. ; 470 pages .

EDWARD ARNO9LD, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Century, 1909. Good. Later. Illustrated by Cornwallis-West, Mrs. George. Good. Hinges starting, spine worn, frays at spine ends, covers soiled, three 1" tears at top of spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Good.

New York: The Century Company, 1908. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear to boards/spine, crease on spine, bumps to corners, writing on pastedowns and FFEP, gift inscription on FFEP, mild toning and foxing to endpapers. text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 470pp. autobiography of American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill.. #01401.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: The Century Co., 1908. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (470 pages, illustrated, with frontis portrait photo). This is a good copy of the First American edition, with significant fading and shelfwear to the spine and covers, else fine. Winston Churchill’s mother, JEANETTE ("Jennie") JEROME (1854-1921) was born in Brooklyn and married Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill in April 1874. Her relationship to her son Winston was famously "affectionate but distant." Lord Randolph died in 1896. In July 1900 Lady Randolph married George Frederick Myddelton Cornwallis-West (twenty years her junior). They were divorced in 1918. In June 1918 she married Montagu Phippen Porch (twenty-five years her junior), a colonial official serving in Nigeria. The difference in their ages prompted her famous remark, "He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right." Winston Churchill’s close friend and personal secretary Edward Marsh described Jennie Churchill as "an incredible… Read More