New York, NY, USA: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. “On a damp March evening in London, in 1908, Clementine Hozier returns home, tired and hungry after a hard day’s work. She has been giving French lessons at two shillings and six pence (roughly fifty cents) an hour. Clementine lives with her mother at a small terrace house, 51 Abingdon Villas, off Kensington High Street, and money is always desperately..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. “Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid 1930s—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class..... More

New York, NY, USA: Time Magazine Inc., 1950. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “In Washington, the administration made two historic year-end decisions. The first, by the military, was a complete about-face: the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to help defend Formosa [Taiwan] against the Chinese Communists. The second decision was made by Harry Truman himself. He ordered all the top Government agencies involved to have a firm Asiatic policy ready for..... More