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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
Complete Life of The Right Honourable Winston L. Spencer Churchill. Life-Stories of Success No.2 Soldier and Statesman.
London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910]. [Self-Help / Political Biography] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry, stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and..... More
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
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. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles to spines, coat of arms in gilt with gilt rule to uppers, and all edges gilt. Each..... 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
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 certificate to pastedown, noting that this set is number 163 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Bound in original dark blue quarter morocco with..... 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
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
London: George Harrap and Co., 1947. [Biography/History] First two-volume edition. Octavo (23 x 16 x 11cm), pp.1049; [3], pp.1078; [2]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spines and armorial device in gilt to centre of upper boards, top edges tinted red, in pink and grey dust-wrappers (this design being..... 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, none..... 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
Post-War Speeches, 1945-1959. The Sinews of Peace; Europe Unite; In the Balance; Stemming the Tide; The Unwritten Alliance.
London: Cassell and Company, 1948-61. [Politics] FIRST EDITIONS. Five volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 18cm). Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jackets. One discreet inscription, two jackets price-clipped. Some light spotting/toning, jackets clean and fresh, with shallow loss to crown of 'Sinews', otherwise particularly fresh examples. 'Tide' is..... 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 priced at 12/6. Illustrated with three half-tone plates. Contents very clean, jacket a little rubbed, a touch of wear to..... 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
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
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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
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. 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..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958. [English History] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Complete in 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. Recently rebound in navy half morocco, with raised..... More