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Winston Churchill
Birmingham Electrical and Industrial Exhibition, (International) 1889, Programme of Concerts Given in Bingley Hall, On Thursday, August 1st, 1889, at the Opening of the Exhibition by Lady Randolph Churchill. Artistes — Miss Constance Bellamy and Mr. J. W. Turner. Gilmer's Military Band.
Birmingham: printed by J. Upton for the venue, 1889. [Concert Programme] ORIGINAL SILK PROGRAMME. Octavo bi-fold, printed on all sides (22 x 15cm). Cream silk printed in dark blue. Heavy fraying to edges, especially fore-edge, with one large brown mark to the front cover, as well as a few much..... More
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political Biography] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Illustrated with photographs throughout. In eight volumes, being the complete set of the Life. Octavo (24 x 17 x 51cm). Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching cloth..... More
Winston S. Churchill: Volume I Companion. Parts I and II: 1874-1900.
London: Heinemann, 1967. [Winston Churchill] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Octavos (24 x 16 x 9cm), pp.[2]; xxii; 678; [2], pp.[6]; 679-1290; [6]. The complete companion volumes to volume I of the Life. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and red top edges. Light general wear to bindings. Lacks..... More
Winston S. Churchill: Volume II Companion. Parts I, II and III: 1901-1914.
London: Heinemann, 1969. [Winston Churchill] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Octavos (24 x 16 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xxix; [1]; 676, pp.viii; 677-1373; [3], pp.vii; 1374-2159; [3]. The complete companion volumes to volume II of the Life. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and red top edges. Light general wear..... More
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
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
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 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
The Sinews of Peace. Post-War Speeches.
London: Cassell and Company, 1948. [Politics / history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [4], 9-256. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 16s. Contents and edges clean, no inscriptions, covers fresh, jacket with a few neat, short tears. The first volume of..... 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 the second state, being numbered to p.78 (in our experience the more elusive of the two states). Complete in seven volumes, with the final two volumes bound together as one. Octavo (22 x 14 x...... More
Onwards to Victory. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. 1943.
London: Cassell and Company., 1944. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 278. Illustrated with five half-tone plates. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in the blue and orange typographic dust-jacket priced 12/6. Contents clean, edges gently toned, jacket lightly rubbed, spine a touch darkened. Shows..... More
Victory. War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, O.M., C.H., M.P., 1945.
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 239 [1]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. No inscriptions. Contents..... 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
Great Contemporaries.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with associated black ink ownership, possibly Max Burnmore. Gently toned to..... More
Great Contemporaries.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335 [3]. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. A black ink gift inscription to half-title, dated November 1937. Light spotting throughout, otherwise internally..... More
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[A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, The Second World War, and others] Cassell company archive relating to his publications. 1930s-1990, but chiefly 1944-65.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1942. [Political and Military History] Publishing Churchill at the peak of his literary fame. An extensive archive of papers retained by Churchill's primary post-war UK publishers, Cassell, shedding considerable light on the evolving texts of Churchill's books, Cassell's publishing decisions, international wrangling over rights, and the..... More