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The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm). Each volume has the publisher's presentation bookplate loosely inserted, noting that this set is number 8 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Bound in original dark blue quarter morocco with..... More
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[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-46. [History] COMPLETE WAR SPEECHES IN FIRST EDITION, smartly bound. Seven volumes bound as six (Victory and Secret Sessions bound together). Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Recent dark green half morocco, with gilt titles and gilt lion motifs to spines, raised..... More
The Dawn of Liberation. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1944.
London: Cassell and Company, 1945. [World War II]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 327; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with three half-tone plates. Some spotting to edges. Dust-jacket shows well with just a couple of small closed tears, some nicking..... More
The Dawn of Liberation. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1944.
London: Cassell and Company, 1945. [World War II] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 327; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with three half-tone plates. Some spotting/toning to page edges, jacket price-clipped with a couple of short tears and some rubbing. Very..... More
Paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill.
London: The Royal Academy of Arts, 1959. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION, and only edition. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.48. With 22 double-sided lithographic plates, six being in colour. Publisher's glossy card covers, illustrated. Quite heavy exterior rubbing, with a small blue pen mark to front cover, damp mark to rear..... More
Arms and the Covenant. Speeches on Foreign Affairs and National Defence. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1938. FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST STATE. 8vo., pps 466. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in pale blue dustwrapper. This copy is a Colonial issue, sold by A.H.Spencer of Melbourne and with UK price clipped from jacket, Australian label applied to spine. A...... More
The Atlantic Charter, and the Prime Minister's Statement on Basic English of March 9, 1944; in their original form, and in Basic English, for purposes of Comparison. Presented by the Prime Minister to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, March 1944.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944. Pamphlet, 153 x 246mm. Government Document. 5 pages, stapled at spine. In near fine condition. More
The Atlantic Charter, and the Prime Minister's Statement on Basic English of March 9, 1944; in their original form, and in Basic English, for purposes of Comparison. Presented by the Prime Minister to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, March 1944.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944. Pamphlet, 153 x 246mm. Government Document. 5 pages, stapled at spine. In near fine condition. More
The British Gazette.
[London] His Majesty's Stationery Office, May 5 - May 13, 1926. 8 issues. A complete set of the British Gazette newspaper. All in very good condition, folded, with some toning as expected with newsprint. Overall an exceptionally good set, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box with gilt titles to spine..... More
The British Gazette.
[London]: His Majesty's Stationery Office, May 5 - May 13, 1926. Newspapers, 8 issues, (60 x 48cm). A complete set of the British Gazette newspaper. Housed in a brown leather-spined clamshell box with cloth sides, gilt titles and raised bands (34 x 27cm). All in very good condition, folded, with..... More
Christmas Greetings card.
London and Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Photocrom, n.d. [circa 1945]. Card-backed cut-out photographic print of Winston Churchill, with "The Prime Minister Faces Facts and Gives Facts", printed on the front. Sent out as a greetings card by A. Cohen and Co. of Great Dover Street, London with the text reading..... More
contributes 'A Message of Good Cheer' to 'The Listener'.
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 14th May, 1942. ORIGINAL MAGAZINE PRINTING of this speech, broadcast on Churchill's second anniversary as Prime Minister (May 10th). Subsequently collected in 'The End of the Beginning' volume of war speeches, but under the new title 'Prime Minister for Two Years'. Magazine/Newspaper format, stapled at spine..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Educational Book Company, 1956-58. [History] First Illustrated Edition, the Chartwell Edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 16cm). Each volume with several suites of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt stamped boards, red leather title labels and gilt decoration to spines;..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958. [English History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 416; pp.xii; 344; pp.xii; 332; pp.xii; 322. With occasional maps and plans. Also with an original black and white photograph of Sir Winston and Clementine Churchill, loose to preliminaries of..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xxii; 416; pp.[2]; xii; 344; [2]; pp.[2]; xii; 332; [6]; pp.[2]; xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, top edges red, pictorial dust-jackets. Top..... More
Irish Home Rule, together with The Liberal Government and Naval Policy. Speeches delivered by the Rt.Hon.Winston Churchill, M.P., First Lord of The Admiralty (March 1912).
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1913. FIRST EDITIONS. Two rare pamphlets. Bound in an annual volume of similar works entitled 'Publications for the Year', with new general title page, in publisher's utitlity binding of quarter green morocco over boards, titled in gilt to spine, t.e.g. Heavy wear to spine, head-cap..... More
Lord Randolph Churchill.
MacMillan and Co. Limited, London, 1906, FIRST EDITION, two volumes, octavo. Publisher's burgundy buckram blocked in gilt to spine and upper covers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with eighteen photographic plates. Some foxing, contemporary ink ownership to flyleaves, some shelfwear, spines rubbed, 'Boots' blindstamp to cover of second volume. A very good..... More
Lord Randolph Churchill.
London: Odhams Press, no date [1951]. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.840. With a frontispiece portrait of Randolph Churchill. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket titled in yellow and white, priced at 21/-. Blue ink and pencil notes to verso..... More
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Man Overboard [in The Harmsworth Magazine no.6 for December 1898].
London: Harmsworth Bros, Dec. 1898. First appearance of Churchill's short story 'Man Overboard'. Small quarto magazine format in original publisher's illustrated paper covers. Very minor edgewear and very slight chipping to spine ends otherwise bright, clean and strong. Quarter inch of loss to tail of spine panel. Staples faintly rusting..... More
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My Early Life [and] Thoughts and Adventures.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930-32. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16 x 9cm), pp.392; pp.320. Illustrated with photographic frontispieces and several other illustrations. Bound in publisher's pink and green cloth respectively, both with gilt titles to spines and upper cover, uniformly stamped in blind. No inscriptions, text blocks..... More
Painting as a Pastime.
London: Odham Press Limited and Ernest Benn Limited, 1948. [Art/History] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION following publication within The Strand magazine, then as an essay in the collection 'Thoughts and Adventures'. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.32, with plates bound at rear. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Black and white frontispiece of..... More
Savrola.
London: George Newnes, no date [1908]. [Literature] Newnes Sixpenny Novel edition of Churchill's only novel, being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.128. Illustrated with two full-page monochrome plates (frontispiece and front cover). Magazine format, stapled and bound in publishers colour-printed card wraps. Slight toning to contents, a...... More
The Second World War.
London: The Educational Book Company, no date [1955]. [Military history] The Chartwell Edition, THE First Illustrated Edition. Six volumes (25 x 18 x 27cm). The standard binding of red cloth, embossed silhouette of Churchill on a brown leather square to upper boards, gilt titles to brown leather squares to spine..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Attractively bound in navy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, red..... More