Winston Churchill
Churchill, Sir Winston. THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Boston; Houghton
Mifflin Co.,1948-1953: FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, housed in the rare
PUBLISHER’S ORIGINAL WOODEN BOX. A very handsome set in dust
jackets showing very light edge wear; volumes 1 and 3 with slight fading to
spines (see photo). No names, no bookplates, no foxing. All dust Jackets
are very good to fine, volume 6 dust jacket is price clipped; all others show
the price of $6.00. The present set is only the third we have seen in the
publisher’s wooden box. [pb.4951] $1250
Churchill, Sir Winston S. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. London:
Macmillan & Co, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, 564, 531pp.,
bound in original burgundy cloth with Churchill family crest stamped in gilt
on the front panel of both volumes, illustrated in color and in black & white.
Only a trace of wear at extremities, Bookplate of Colston's Girl's School,
Bristol by bequest of of Charles Julious Ryland on front pastedowns, library
shelf sticker skillfully removed from lower spines leaving a trace of
discoloration, slight fading to spines and front edge of volume II. Internally
very clean, with no previous owner's names or stamps. Firs edition of Sir
Winston Churchill's acclaimed biography of his father. [pb.4904] $700
FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL
Churchill, Winston S. MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times. London, 1933-
38; George C. Harrap & Co. First edition, Royal Octavo, INSCRIBED by
Churchill to the Duke of Bedford. Four volumes in very good dust jackets
with a few edge tears repaired, volume one has a few closed tears repaired
on the verso, inscribed in the month of publication of volume II as follows:
"To Bedford/from/Winston S. Churchill/Oct. 1,1934", Illustrated with maps,
plans and facsimile documents. The Duke of Bedford was a cousin of the
British philosopher Bertrand Russell. [pb.0066] $13,200
Churchill, Winston S. STEP BY STEP 1936-1939. New York; (1939): G.P.
Putnam's Sons, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo. Published about a
week before the war began, this collection newspaper articles, by Churchill,
was prescient in warnings about Hitler and the Nazis. 324pp., bound in blue
cloth, letter to upper board and spine silver over red, top edge red. A fine
copy in unclipped dust jacket with small lost at spine ends, edge wear and a
closed tear on front panel, a small 1/4" chip to upper edge of front panel and
a few old tape mends to underside of jacket. [pb.5061] $400
Manchester, William. THE LAST LION, Winston Spencer Churchill. Boston;
(1983 & 1988): Little, Brown and Co, First Edition. Thick Octavo. Two
volumes, "Visions Of Glory 1874-1932 " and "Alone 1932-1940", 973pp.,
756pp., respectively. Both volumes bound in black cloth centrally stamped in
blind with Churchill's coat of arms, spines lettered in gilt; all volumes are
good to fine, dust jacket are ver good to fine [pb.4881]
$125
Churchill, Sir Winston. War Speeches. Seven(7) volumes, complete,
including: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning,
Onwards to Victory. The Dawn of Liberation, Victory and Secret Session
Speeches. London; Cassel and Co., 1941-46. First Editions, first printings, all
bound in original blue cloth, all are in unclipped dust jackets, volumes 2 and
5 with small chip; all others with light wear at extremities. Volume 1, “Into
Battle” is the first state, with no page number on pages 78 and 294.
$2000
Churchill, Sir Winston. London to Ladysmith, Via Pretoria. London; Longmans,
Green & Co., 1900. First edition in original pictorial tan cloth; folding color
frontispiece map, 498 pages, 2 pages of ads for The River War and The Malakand
Field Force, and 32 pages of Publisher’s ads; 3 other maps (2 folding) and 4 plans.
Black coated end papers, with small booksellers stamp to FEP; light foxing to
preliminaries; internally very clean, foot of spine slightly darkened. A very
handsome copy.
$800
Churchill, Sir Winston. The Great War. London (1933-34);Goerge Newnes
Ltd. First Edition, in the 26 original fortnightly parts, illustratedwiyh
photographs, drawings and maps. Quarto; bound in original pictorial
wrappers, printed in blue, black and white. On front wraps of parts 1
through 21 is printed “To be completed on about 24 fortnightly parts” On
front wraps of parts 22 through 26 is printed “To be concluded in twenty-six
parts.” Part 26 containes the final pages of chapter XCVIII, The last chapter
of the previous parts. A very good set with light wear to some parts, more to
part 1. Beautifully presented in a pair of custom blue quarter leather boxes.
$1400
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