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Winston Churchill | First Editions
1874 - 1965
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was one of those people it is difficult to avoid in the rare book world, simply by dint of the fact that he was amazingly prolific, and had an educated opinion on everything.
As well as being Prime Minister of the UK twice, steering Britain to Victory during the dark days of the Second World War, writing more speeches than the entire Roman Senate, being a serving officer in the army, taking a stint as a war correspondent, being a noted historian, a less noted painter (although the island of Madeira loves him), he received the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the USA.
See below our stock of Winston Churchill First Editions, fine bindings, sets, signed copies, and other collectible material.
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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 navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to... More about A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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 about A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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 about A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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 about Irish Home Rule, together with The Liberal Government and Naval Policy. Speeches delivered by the...
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 about Lord Randolph Churchill
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 about Lord Randolph Churchill
![Man Overboard [in The Harmsworth Magazine no.6 for December 1898]. Winston Spencer CHURCHILL, Sir](/pictures/thumb/45778.jpg?v=1493310976)
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 about Man Overboard [in The Harmsworth Magazine no.6 for December 1898
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933 - 1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black and white plates, folding maps and battle plans, and facsimile documents. In publisher's... More about Marlborough. His Life and Times
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 about Painting as a Pastime
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 about Savrola
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 about The Second World War
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 about The Second World War
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 burgundy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, blue... More about The Second World War
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. Recently bound in navy half calf with matching cloth over boards, red... More about The Second World War
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [World War Two] FIRST EDITIONS. In 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. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edges red, typographic... More about The Second World War
Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Charles Eade.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1946. [Politics/History] FIRST EDITION, octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.i-v; 6-96. Light blue cloth blocked in gilt, printed dust-wrapper (repriced to flap by the publisher). An outstanding copy in exceptional condition with none of the usual foxing and no soiling to jacket; the very faintest edge... More about Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Charles Eade
SIGNED Wartime Postcard of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seen with his Daughter Mary.
[1940s]. Photographic postcard, taken from a full-length image 'Enemy overhead Winston Churchill and his daughter Mary scan the skies above southern England, July 1940', boldly signed by the subject near the top margin. Some minor creasing and handling, autograph faded in part. Very good, in common mount and elegant gilt-bevelled... More about SIGNED Wartime Postcard of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seen with his Daughter Mary
![Stemming the Tide [Post-War Speeches]. Winston Spencer CHURCHILL, Sir](/pictures/thumb/43586.jpg?v=1511187534)
Stemming the Tide [Post-War Speeches].
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1954. First US edition (utilising the British sheets). Octavo, pp. x, 379. Review copy with review slip laid in. An uncommon book with only 1850 copies produced. Green publisher's cloth with black titles and dark green decoration to spine, dark blue dustwrapper. Some light bumping to... More about Stemming the Tide [Post-War Speeches
Thoughts and Adventures.
London: Thornton Butterfield, 1932. [Political Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author at work on a painting, and a handful of in-text illustrations. Some offsetting to half-title and... More about Thoughts and Adventures
![Three Speeches]. [The Work of the Navy; Return to the Gold Standard; Widows Pensions]. Winston...](/images/noimage.png)
[Three Speeches]. [The Work of the Navy; Return to the Gold Standard; Widows Pensions].
[Unknown: Disbound]. n.d. [c.1920's]. DISBOUND SPEECH COLLECTION. Octavo, pp.165-192. In later pale yellow paper wraps with type-written titles to white label on front cover. Light wear to covers; very good. Containing 'The Work of the Navy' (February 1915); 'Return to the Gold Standard' (April 1925); and 'Widows' Pensions' (March 1925). More about Three Speeches]. [The Work of the Navy; Return to the Gold Standard; Widows Pensions
War Speeches 1940-1945.
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [History] FIRST EDITION. Collected speeches, a paperback original. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.x, 271. Bound in light blue paper wraps with integral flaps, half-tone frontispiece photo. Printed on war economy standard paper which has some inevitable tanning, spine rolled with one-inch loss at foot. A.... More about War Speeches 1940-1945
"What kind of a people do they think we are?" Two historic speeches made by The Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. (1) To the members of both Houses of the United States Congress at Washington on December 26th, 1941, and (2) To the members of the Senate and of the House of Commons at Ottawa on December 30th, 1941.
London: Reprinted from The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, no date [1942]. [War Speeches] FIRST STATE, without a printed price. Quarto pamphlet in paper cover, stapled. pp.8. Folded horizontally, otherwise a near fine copy. Woods A86. More about "What kind of a people do they think we are?" Two historic speeches made by The Rt....
![The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes]. Winston Spencer CHURCHILL, Sir](/pictures/thumb/52685.jpg?v=1542026630)
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS, a complete set. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8]; 536; pp.557; [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589; [1]; pp.474; [2]; pp.368. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind stamped to upper boards. Light spotting to edges, with a.... More about The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes
![The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes]. Winston Spencer CHURCHILL, Sir](/pictures/thumb/53605.jpg?v=1559396582)
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31. [Military history] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, a complete set. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8]; 536; pp.557; [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589; [1]; pp.474; [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Recent green half calf with raised... More about The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes
The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers: Forming a Political Record for the Year 1906.
London: The Liberal Publication Department. 1907. Including Churchill's speeches on South Africa and Ireland. Octavo. pp. 764; 72. In navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat loose in places, but complete with index. Published following the landslide victory for the Liberal Party in the 1906 General Election... More about The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers:...
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