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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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The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. The Centenary Edition. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. [Essay] FIRST EDITION THUS, The Centenary Edition. The first collected edition of Churchill's essays and articles. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (25 x 18cm). Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles to spines, coat of arms in gilt with gilt rule to uppers, and all..... More
"Here is The Course We Steer". Mr Churchill Maps Out The Tasks thet Face the Nation.
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1945. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.16. Photographic soft-covers showing a jubilant Prime Minister in Navy winter dress. One of two versions, this being the 'Politcal' edition. Contents clean, covers dusty, some toning to edges, staples rusted, Party stamp to upper. Very..... More
The People's Peril -And the Way Out. A Speech in the House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill M.P,. March 12th, 1947.
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1947. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.16. Typographic soft-covers. Contents and covers clean, soft vertical fold, lightly handled, staples not rusted, Party stamp to upper. Near fine. A speech delivered in London by Churchill as Leader of the Opposition, focussing on the..... More
The Right Road for Britain, Winston Churchill's speech at Wolverhampton of 23rd July 1949.
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1949. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.20. Typographic soft-covers with inset photograph of Churchill delivering the address, rear cover blank. Contents and covers clean, lightly handled, staples rusted. Near fine. A rousing speech by Churchill as Leader of the Opposition, attacking Attlee's..... More
Towards the Climax. Speech delivered by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill in the House of Commons on Tuesday, February 22nd, 1944.
Berne: British Press News & Comment, British Legation, 1944. [Politics] FIRST EDITION thus. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.16. Printed softcovers, stapled twice at fold. Fine condition. A detailed speech to the House on the progress of the war Prime Minister. Later collected in book form ('The Dawn of Liberation', 1945)..... More
"Trust The People". A Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill M.P,. Ayr, May 16th, 1947.
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1947. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.16. Typographic soft-covers, ads to rear panel. Contents and covers clean, lightly handled, staples not rusted, opened by hand with slightly rough-cut edge to pp.5/6, neat achive repair to tear, p.12. Near fine. A speech delivered..... More
Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H, M.P., Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: George G. Harrap, 1938. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.466 [2]. With a frontispiece photograph of Winston Churchill. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. One of just 5000 copies from the original print-run. Contents very clean, usual offset toning..... More
Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H, M.P., Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: George G. Harrap, 1938. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.466 [2]. With a frontispiece photograph of Winston Churchill. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. One of just 5000 copies from the original print-run. Contents, endpapers and edges aof text..... More
contribute to...'THE STRAND MAGAZINE' (Around Mount Kenya). Issue No 208.
London: George Newnes Ltd., April 1908. [Literary magazine] This issue contains the FIRST appearance of Churchill's 'Around Mount Kenya'. Also contains a chapter of E. Nesbit's childrens story 'The House of Arden, plus part of the Jacob's serial 'Salthaven'. Original issue magazine format, approx. 24 x 17cm, with pictorial covers..... More
King George VI. The Prime Minister's Broadcast.
London: The Times and the British Broadcasting Corporation, Thursday 7th February 1952. [Speech] RARE PAMPHLET, FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.4. Lightly handled; near fine condition. First printing of Prime Minister's tribute speech, on the death of The King and introducing Queen Elizabeth II, broadcast on national radio, February..... More
Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xiv; 409 [39]. With a black and white frontispiece, nine in-text maps and plans, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Black-coated endpapers. Toning..... More
Step by Step 1936-1939.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939. [Politics / Second World War] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.366. With two maps; one folding at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Contents exceptionally clean and fresh with no foxing, no ink names, edges..... More
Step by Step 1936-1939.
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1939. [Politics] FIRST EDITION, third impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.365 [3]. With a map of China, and a folding map of Europe to rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, with a black ink ownership of John..... More
contributes 'Man Overboard. An Episode of the Red Sea' to Harmsworth Magazine.
London: Harmsworth Bros., 1898-99. FIRST PRINTING; the original appearance as published in volume 1 of Harmsworth's Monthly Pictorial Magazine, (January 1899), illustrated by Henry Austin. Also contains the short story 'A Princess In Green and Tan' by Arthur Preston, featuring six illustrations from a young Arthur Rackham, drawn very much..... More
Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948.
London: Cassell and Company, 1950. [Post-War Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 506. Publisher's bright green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black, yellow and green dust-jacket, priced at 18s. No inscriptions, some evidence of damp (but not waterstained, teidemarked or soiled) pages are 'wavy' when..... 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, 1941-6. [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions, 'Into Battle' is a first state, with no page number to p.78. Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, vols..... 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, 1941-1946. [Speeches] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions, 'Into Battle' is a first state, with no page number to p.78. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Handsomely bound in navy half morocco, with twin red morocco title..... 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, 1941-1946. [Speeches] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions, 'Into Battle' is a later state, being numbered to p.78. Complete in seven volumes, with the final two volumes bound together as one. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Handsomely bound in navy half..... 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, first impression. 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, discreet name to pastedown, jacket price-clipped. A very good copy in..... More
The War Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, O.M., C.H., P.C., M.P.
London: Cassell and Company, 1951-1952. [Second World War Speeches] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, First Printings. Three volumes. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 483 [1]; pp.xvi; 560; pp.xvi; 578 [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Each volume with the cream and pink dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Internally clean..... More
The War Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, O.M., C.H., P.C., M.P.
London: Cassell and Company, 1951-1952. [Second World War Speeches] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, First Printings. Three volumes. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 483 [1]; pp.xvi; 560; pp.xvi; 578 [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Each volume with the cream and pink dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Crisp, fresh..... More
Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963.
New York, NY and London: Chelsea House Publishers, 1974. [Political Speeches] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo (25 x 20 x 50cm). Each volume with a frontispiece portrait of Churchill, corresponding to the era covered in that particular book, including President of the Board of Trade (1909), War..... More
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. [History] FIRST U.S. EDITION OF INTO BATTLE, first impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.x; 462. Publisher's red cloth with blue and gilt designs blocked to spine, armorial motif in blind and gilt lettering to upper, typographic dust-jacket. Black and white photographic frontispiece..... More
Churchill 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
Great Contemporaries.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt and blind, top edge tinted blue, typographic orange dust-jacket priced at 21s. Contents clean, some spotting to edges, no inscriptions, jacket..... More