New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii, [3] 310 pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a black and white photograph frontispiece of Fortescue and..... More
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company [1941], 1941. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 250 pp. Red cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Churchill and by several..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [2], 316 pp. Blue cloth lettered in white on the front board with a pictorial inset, gold lettering and a decoration of a woman on the spine; blue topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece and numerous additional photograph plates, photographs..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1965], 1965. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], vi, [3], 2-184 pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A new edition of Russell's first book, originally published in 1896. A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Second American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 120, [2] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine; blue topstain. Price of $1.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wilson A34d. The second American edition, without the eight illustrations of..... More
London: The Phaidon Press (1944), 1944. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], x-xxiii, [2], 2-462, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the front board and spine. Price of 7/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-xv, [1], 319, [1] pp. Navy cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine, decorations in navy on the front board, spine lettered in gold; decorative front pastedowns. Illustrated by a frontispiece, numerous plates and full-page illustrations..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-383, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated in color by Ellis Silas: a frontispiece, and fifteen additional color plates. A nice copy of a popular history of the British..... More
London: The Bodley Head (1952), 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-485, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of 37s 6d net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece (a mosaic of the head of Christ), eight..... More