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— Bertolt Brecht
Winston Churchill
The Ceremonies in Honor of the Right Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1943. Presentation Copy. Octavo. Bound in red cloth, with gilt titles and arms of the university to front board. Includes a signed compliment card. Rare in hardback issue. The binding is pristine, with no marks of wear or signs of fading. Internally clean, with slight residual... More about The Ceremonies in Honor of the Right Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill
Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial. Presented by Joe Collins and Mervyn Conn. With Manfred Mann, Dave Berry, the Ivy League.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, April 1965. [Concert Programme] RARE PAMPHLET (27 x 20cm), pp.12. Publisher's colour printed paper covers with two staples. Very light wear. Near fine. More about Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for...
Winston Churchill As I Knew Him.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode and Collins, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.496. With 20 photographic illustrations. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge black. With the orange, green and black dust-jacket with titles in white to front cover and spine. Some pencil MS notes to pp.79;... More about Winston Churchill As I Knew Him
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. In eight volumes, being the complete set of the Life. Octavo (24 x 17 x 51cm). Recent maroon half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spines, matching cloth over boards; top edges... More about Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. In eight volumes, being the complete set of the Life. Octavo (24 x 17 x 51cm). In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, in original dust-jackets of various colours. Top edges pink. Internally fine, some negligible... More about Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper within border. Gilt bright. A lovely, tight copy with minor rubbing. Pre-dates the UK publication. Author's only novel, having just published a short seafaring tale 'Man Overboard' in Harmsworth's Magazine (1899)... More about Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
Winston Churchill in Peace and War.
London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1916. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[vi], xiv; 162; [2], blank. Bound in original red cloth titled and trimmed in black. Tape marks to flyleaves otherwise internally clean. Armorial bookplate of Charles Bird Williams, minor bumping, spine sunned. A very good copy of this wartime account of... More about Winston Churchill in Peace and War
Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Pamphlet.
London: the friends of T. E. Lawrence, no date [circa 1936]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Single page folded (19 x 11cm), with title to front cover and text inside. Upper left corner heavily browned, otherwise unmarked. Very good. A pamphlet describing the actions required to ensure a memorial to Lawrence be erected... More about Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Pamphlet
My African Journey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. [Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 226; [18], catalogue. With sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson, and three maps. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Usual spotting to edges, a few plates edgeworn, cloth... More about My African Journey
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, no date (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 quarter dark blue... More about The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff
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. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 409; [1], blank; [4], ads; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Elegantly bound in brown half morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, top edge gilt, original cloth spine and upper panel... More about Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland a Prisoner...
An Important Collection of Winston Churchill/World War II autographs.
no place, no date. [Autographs] A remarkable autograph album of one Lawrence Biggart containing 95 signatures (1940-48), mostly international statesmen, war leaders, dignitaries and prominent military officials and public servants, plus some contemporary celebrities. Small landscape album (18 x 12cm) in brown crocodile skin-effect leather, comprising 95 autographs on paper... More about An Important Collection of Winston Churchill/World War II autographs
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
London: Beacon Books, 1957. [Literature] SECOND PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.222 [2]. In the publisher's colour-illustrated card covers. Heavily browned, as expected. Rubbing and light wear to joints and edges. A crease across the top corner of the front cover. Very good. Winston S. Churchill's only novel (not... More about Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
![War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards...](/pictures/thumb/53316.jpg?v=1552139688)
[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 about War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards...
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 about The Dawn of Liberation. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1944
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 about The Dawn of Liberation. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1944
Victory. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1945.
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [World War II] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 239; [1], blank. Illustrated with half-tone plates. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket. A near fine copy in similar wrapper, slightly dusty and a little frayed at crown. The penultimate volume... More about Victory. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1945
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 about Arms and the Covenant. Speeches on Foreign Affairs and National Defence. Compiled by Randolph S....
Autograph letter as Member of Parliament for Woodford, 1959.
1959. Typed letter signed and subscribed ("Yours very sincerely, Winston S. Churchill"), to Conservative party activists Mr and Mrs. Double, thanking them for their support during his successful recent election campaign. One page, 8vo, on Chartwell headed paper, October 1959. Lightly handled, twice folded. Fine. At the General Election held... More about Autograph letter as Member of Parliament for Woodford, 1959
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 about The British Gazette
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 about The British Gazette
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 about Christmas Greetings card
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 about contributes 'A Message of Good Cheer' to 'The Listener'
History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Purnell, 1969-1971. [History] FIRST EDITION THUS. Seven volumes, quarto (33 x 24 x 41cm). 112 partworks in illustrated wraps, housed in the separately issued publisher's blue Rexine binders. Occasional ownership annotation to covers, all volumes slightly bowed due to the weight but still sound and robust. Light wear to... More about History of the English-Speaking Peoples
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-8. [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 priced... More about A History of the English-Speaking Peoples