To say the last half a year has been bookishly busy would be a mammoth understatement. In short, we’ve been spending a lot of time with some lovely libraries.

In addition to our usual cycle of new acquisitions and listings, we have acquired much of the best material from three significant collections. It seems a good time to tell you a little about what we will be cataloguing over the next year or two, and give you a quick preview of what’s forthcoming from the Churchill Book Collector team.

Blog posts should not have lists. I have a dim memory from high school of being subjected to Thoreau’s grocery list in Walden. I think that’s when and why I decided to avoid subjecting readers to lists. But there seems an exception to every rule. Hence… yes, there’s a list coming… the following, a partial list of the authors whose works (many firsts, a good number signed or inscribed) we are preparing for your consideration:

Buzz Aldrin	David Lloyd George	Pliny the Younger
Nancy Astor	H. Rider Haggard	Paul Reynaud
Jonah Barrington	Alexander Hamilton	Hercules Robinson
Gertrude Bell	Thomas Hardy	Theodore Roethke
Elizabeth Bishop	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Erwin Rommel
James Boswell	Ernest Hemingway	Carl Sandburg
Frances Hodgson Burnett	Aldous Huxley	J. B. Henry Savigny
Robert Burns	John Jay	Walter Scott
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Thomas Jefferson	Robert W. Service
George Gordon Byron	Omar Khayyam	Dr. Seuss
George W. Cable	Rudyard Kipling	George Bernard Shaw
John Carr	T. E. Lawrence	Upton Sinclair
Lewis Carroll	Sinclair Lewis	Edward Louis Spears
Rachel Carson	Jack London	John Steinbeck
Miguel de Cervantes	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Robert Louis Stevenson
Geoffrey Chaucer	J. Ramsay Macdonald	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Winston Churchill	Fitzroy Maclean	William Makepeace Thackeray
James Stanier Clarke	James Madison	Dylan Thomas
Charles Darwin	John McArthur	Mark Twain
Charles Dickens	Cormac McCarthy	Jules Verne
Arthur Conan Doyle	Herman Melville	Alice Walker
Anthony Eden	Arthur Miller	Isaak Walton
Henry Fielding	Czeslaw Milosz	Chaim Weizmann
E. M. Forster	Bernard Law Montgomery	E. B. White
Benjamin Franklin	Thomas Moore	Walt Whitman
Robert Frost	Jawaharlal Nehru	Edward Whymper
John Gay	John Hely Owen	Thornton Wilder

It may occur to you that Winston S. Churchill is merely one among the many names listed above. Please know that we plan to continue offering the most significant and expansive Winston inventory in the world. Among the hundreds of Churchill items in our as-yet-unlisted inventory are roughly fifty items signed or inscribed by Churchill, including both books and correspondence. Many of these come from a truly marvelous Churchill collection, the curating of which was the work of decades by a thoughtful and well-resourced collector. In short, just what we haven’t yet listed will comprise the most significant collection of signed and inscribed Churchill material on the world market, spanning more than six decades, from the mid-1890s to the twilight of Churchill’s long life and career.

Perhaps nobody wants to see pictures of boxes any more than they want to read lists, but did I mention the team’s been hard at work?

Among the many authors other than Churchill whose work we will be offering, Robert Frost – four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration, and arguably “the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century” – merits special mention. Among our as-yet-unlisted inventory is an incredible collection of Robert Frost material. Like the Churchill material, the forthcoming Frost material was assembled over many decades by a diligent and discerning collector. Also like the Churchill collection, our Frost trove holds many dozens of signed and inscribed items, including some manuscript lines and poems.

It is a privilege to handle such material, and even more of a privilege to share it with others. We look forward to sharing these items – and a little of the excitement and wonder that appends to them. As always (and perhaps just now more than ever…), if you seek something which you do not find in our currently listed inventory, just ask.

Cheers!