Scribner's, NY, 1929, 2nd printing, Second impression of the penultimate volume of The World Crisis. Bound in reddish brown cloth, gilt titles on spine and cover. 502 pages, index, 8 maps and charts. Book is very clean and crisp with unmarked brown cloth and very bright gilt titles. Owner name..... Item #12709 More
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1933, Copyright page identifies this as “first cheap edition”, but actually it is the second, as there was also a really cheap little edition in 1915. A desirable edition, and the best to read other than a first. This edition uses the setting of the 1902..... Item #36584 More
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1898, The Colonial issue of the first edition. This edition, intended for sale in India and the Colonies, used the same printing plates as the first home issue, so has all the same errors. It is bound in pictorial grey cloth. Latest estimates (Cohen) are..... Item #36620 More
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1931, An important title, as it is not simply an abridgement, but has been revised by Churchill with new material and there is also a whole new chapter on the Battle of the Marne, as well as a new introduction. This single volume edition covers the same..... Item #36629 More
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1898, hardcover. The Colonial issue of the first edition. This edition, intended for sale in India and the Colonies, used the same printing plates as the first home issue, so has all the same errors. It is bound in pictorial grey cloth. Latest estimates are..... Item #22554 More
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1900, The second half of Churchill’s Boer War despatches. The First edition. Bound in dark red cloth similar size and style to Malakand but new colour. Gilt titles on spine and front cover, black endpapers. 409 pages, 32 page publishers catalogue at rear. Frontis portrait..... Item #34400 More
Scribners, NY, 1933-1938, 1st American edition, Produced in 6 volumes rather than 4 as the British edition. Scribners chose to split the first two volumes into two books each, but then the final two volumes were not so divided, making a total of six. The setting, illustrations, and maps are..... Item #50120 More
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909, hardcover. First edition of the obscure but important title, consisting of speeches by the young reforming liberal that was pre 1910 Churchill. 5000 copies printed but the survival rate seems far lower than for the earlier tales of travel and adventure. Bound in smooth burgundy..... Item #50072 More
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909, First edition of the obscure but important title, consisting of speeches by the young reforming liberal that was pre 1910 Churchill. 5000 copies printed but the survival rate seems far lower than for the earlier tales of travel and adventure. Bound in smooth burgundy cloth..... Item #33909 More
Putnam’s, NY, 1938, 1st American edition, This is the US title for Arms and the Covenant, a very appropriate title, which was probably too painful a reminder for the home audience. An important collection of Churchill’s speeches during the period 1928-1938 which warn all too clearly of the coming war..... Item #50127 More
Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1941, 1st China edition, Here is a very scarce edition of this title. It was published in Shanghai in 1941, before Japan entered the war and all the Europeans had to leave Shanghai. It is a completely new setting with different fonts than the English editions..... Item #50135 More
London, Liberal Publications, 1912, This publishes Churchill’s speech as First Lord of the Admiralty to the House of Commons on March 18th, 1912, in which he lays out the Navy Estimates, in effect his proposed budget. Size 5 x 8 inches, 24` pages. Woods A21, Cohen A37. A clean bright..... Item #36401 More
McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1956-58, The Canadian first edition was offprinted from the American edition, but in a more attractive binding of navy blue cloth with gilt titling on red spine panels. There was a very limited presentation edition of 350 copies, with a tipped in limitation page, each one..... Item #50173 More
Harrap, London, 1933-1938, hardcover. Here is a set of 4 volumes all in the smoother dark purple cloth binding. Many inexperienced collectors and delaers think these smooth purple bindings were for the Ryerson Canadian issues, but this is only part of the story. I have sets purchased from Australia in..... Item #26156 More
London, THornton Butterworth, 1927, hardcover. Here is a reprint of the first volume of TThe World Crisis in a scarce original dustwrapper. This is the 4th printing of the 3rd edition. (Cohen A69.2(I).i). The rear panel of the jacket advertises the 1915 and 1916-1918 volumes. Book is tight and unworn..... Item #14767 More
NA, Most of you will be familiar with the portrait of Churchill seated in a leather chair by Professor Arthur Pan. The image size is about 22 x 17, the paper size about 30 x 25. Signed by the artist in the lower right margin "With kind friendship Prof. A...... Item #3575 More
London, The Folio Society, 2007, A superb modern edition of Churchill’s great WWI history, produced to the standard you would expect from The Folio Society. The entire work is formed in 5 books, with the usual division of the 1916-1918 volumes not done. Each volume has a photo litho’ed on..... Item #35368 More
Hodder & Stoughton, London (NY), 1908, 1st American edition, The American first edition was made from English first edition sheets bound in a plain coarse dark red cloth with the same gilt titles on the spine as used on the English. Cohen reports a total of 1400 copies between the..... Item #33511 More
London, Cassell, 1952, Bound in grey card covers with title in black on cover and spine. It lacks the index. It is nteresting to note that the maps are printed on different white paper in 2 or 3 colors and then tipped in. I have only seen this one copy..... Item #32089 More
Cassell, London, 1948, 1st edition, Cassel produced a limited number of copies in a full black Morocco binding with top edges gilt as presentation copies. See Langworth p. 284, not mentioned in Cohen. A clean unworn example, tipped onto the endpaper is a facsimile signed note as sent out by..... Item #36647 More
New York, British Library of Information, 1940, One in a series of similar speech pamphlets published by the British Library of Information in New York. All are about 6 x 9 inches. This one publishes Churchill’s speech on the war situation. 8 pages, on better paper than most in the..... Item #36478 More
Harrap, London, 1933-1938, 1st editions, hardcover. Churchill’s monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Thoroughly researched in the family archives at Blenheim Palace, and assisted by several research assistants, this work was published in 4 volumes in 1933, 34, 36, 38 respectively. The first trade..... Item #4595 More
New York, British Library of Information, 1941, One in a series of similar speech pamphlets published by the British Library of Information in New York. All are about 6 x 9 inches, have three vertical rules on the right side and a coat of arms at the top. Publishes Churchill’s..... Item #33477 More
Cassell, London, 1953, 1st edition. hardcover. This volume of the Post War Speeches is the 4th of 5 published. Bound in maroon cloth, 379 pages, covers speeches made in 1951 and 1952. This title is now more difficult to find than The Unwritten Alliance. There are two states, this one..... Item #27893 More
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1930, The first edition of Churchill’s autobiography. Bound in a pinkish purple cloth that is very prone to wear and fading. 392 pages, index, illustrated with photos maps and drawings. A number of variants are known. There are either 11 or 12 titles listed on the half..... Item #50100 More