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London: Odhams Press Limited, 1965. Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with maps and portraits. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Packed with adventure and incidents, Winston Churchill's first 25 years were spent working as a soldier and a war correspondent in India, South Africa and Cuba. Churchill evokes the golden… Read more

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955-56. First edition, early printings of President Truman's presidential memoirs. Octavo, two volumes, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of Volume I, "To Hon. J. Jim Exon From Harry Truman." The recipient, J. James Exon was a businessman and politician, who served as the 33rd Governor of… Read more

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1928. First edition of Strachey's history of women's suffrage in Great Britain. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Millicent Fawcett. In good condition. Ownership name.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912. First edition of of Volume XIV of the Englishwoman's Review, one of the first feminist journals published. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

London: The "Review of Reviews", 1891. The July-December 1891 issue of of Stead's The Review of Reviews. Octavo, original publisher's binding, illustrated, advertisements, index. In very good condition.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. This vivid portrait of political Washington is a distillation of Stewart Alsop's twenty years as a Washington columnist and top-flight political journalist. It is a revealing picture of the Washington inhabited by political reporters and the people they write about, at the center of political power in the United… Read more

New York: Continuum, 2004.

London: Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892]. Rare printing of Lord Balfour's speech supporting the Women's Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

London: Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879. First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women's Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage and containing the opinions of English women in official positions, scientific and political careers, and principals of colleges and high schools among others. Octavo, disbound. In… Read more

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Bernstein's television teaching took a quantum leap when, as the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, he put the orchestra's traditional Saturday afternoon Young People's Concerts on the CBS Television Network. Millions of viewers of all ages and around the world enthusiastically embraced Bernstein and his engaging presentations about classical music.… Read more

New York: W.W. Norton & Compan Inc, 1975. "[Jack Valenti] brings some new and fascinating illuminations on the President and how and why he made some of the vital decisions of the 1960s. Some of the inside glimpses come closer to the truth, I suspect, than anything yet written" (Hugh Sidey, Time Magazine).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. Bernstein's television teaching took a quantum leap when, as the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, he put the orchestra's traditional Saturday afternoon Young People's Concerts on the CBS Television Network. Millions of viewers of all ages and around the world enthusiastically embraced Bernstein and his engaging presentations about classical music.… Read more

London: The Woman's Press, [1910]. First edition of the definitive collection Pethick Lawrence's articles promoting Women's Suffrage. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d.. Stereotyped edition of English suffragette Margaret Dilke's treatise on women's suffrage. Octavo, bound in full cloth, original wrappers bound in. In good condition. Stamps.

Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1982. First edition of this work by the legendary journalist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ed Mulligan, a "PR man for all seasons, Best wishes, John Chamberlain April 1983." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by William F. Buckley. A veteran reporter and columnist… Read more

London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1886.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. Second edition of Mill's classic work defending the rights of women, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.

London: William Heinemann, 1914. First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress "Jane Warton." Octavo, original publisher's purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst to the front panel, illustrated with two portraits including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Lytton. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.… Read more

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914. First edition of the autobiography of the organizer of the UK suffragette movement, Emmeline Pankhurst. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Pankhurst. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.