Churchill, Winston (all items)
First editions of works by British prime minister and wartime leader Sir Winston S Churchill
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[The War speeches and the post-War speeches, comprising:] 1941–61
£3,500
First editions, first impressions.
12 individually issued works, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The War... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell, concerning the National Land and Housing Demonstration, 1907. 1907
£3,250
Churchill writes to Morrell, MP for South Oxfordshire, philandering husband of Lady Ottoline Morrell, and in this context chairman of the executive of the National Land and Housing...
2 pages, 203 × 126 mm. Dated 22 Ap[ril] 1907, written recto and verso of the first leaf of a bifolium of Colonial Office stationery, embossed crest at the head.... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries. 1937
£3,250
First edition, second impression, this copy inscribed "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, November 1937" - the month following publication - on the front free endpaper. Series of...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, blue top-stain. 21 plates. Spine slightly sunned and scuffed, gift inscription to the half-title,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Lord Randolph Churchill. 1907
£3,000
Second edition. Signed by Winston S. Churchill on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original red cloth, covers double-ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. With five inserted illustrations or facsimiles throughout, including... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough 1933–38
£3,000
First Editions, First Impressions.
4 volumes, large octavo. Bound by Bayntun for Kroch's and Brentano's in mid 20th-century full red morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to Emery Reves. 1948
£3,000
Churchill writes to confirm the agreement with Reves to handle foreign language rights to The Sinews of Peace.
Single sheet, typed letter signed. Punch hole at top left corner, central crease where folded once. Excellent condition. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Lord Randolph Churchill. 1906
£2,850
First Edition, First Impression. This copy with a tipped-in two-page letter signed in a secretary's hand, on embossed House of Commons stationery, from Churchill to the civil servant...
2 vols., octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles and family crest gilt to upper board, titles gilt to spine. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each, 6 other... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Lord Randolph Churchill. 1907
£2,750
First one-volume edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "To William H. Buist from Winston S. Churchill, 1908 [and added later] - Nov. 1922." An interesting inscription which brackets...
Octavo. Original red cloth, covers double-ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, and 4 other... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) MACBETH-RAEBURN, Henry.
Portrait of Winston S. Churchill. 2000
£2,750
A limited edition specially commissioned by Peter Harrington, hand-printed from the original mezzotint engraved copper plate, this copy no. 65 of 250. We believe this portrait was...
Plate size 650 × 410 mm. (25 ½ × 16 inches), framed size approx. 855 × 595 mm. (33 ¾ x 23 ½ inches). The portrait bears a facsimile... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Select Committee on the Army Act and Air Force Act - the complete reports with typed letter signed by Churchill as PM. 1952-4
£2,750
First editions. This copy that of Sir Patrick Spens, Chairman of the Select Committee, his ownership inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper; a piece of House of Commons...
Octavo. Contemporary dark blue buckram, title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. Original wraps to all except the first bound in. A little rubbed, spine a touch... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell declining to electioneer on his behalf at South Oxfordshire. 1904
£2,500
Dated 22 June 1904, on 105 Mount Street stationery. Churchill elegantly declines to appear in support of his Liberal colleague Morrell, as the Tory candidate Sir Robert Hermon Hodge...
Two pages, 203 × 125 mm. Recto and verso of the first leaf of a bifolium. Rust marks from a paper-clip to verso of first leaf and both sides of second leaf,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. 1900
£2,500
First edition, second printing. This copy signed on the blank following the front free endpaper. A title infrequently encountered signed. "The volume essentially consists of 27...
Octavo, original tan cloth, illustration and titles to spine in red and gilt, illustration and titles to upper cover in red and black. Folding coloured map as... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The World Crisis. 1923–31
£2,500
All First Editions, First Impressions. Working with astonishing speed and energy, Churchill produced this mammoth history of the First World War in the aftermath of electoral...
6 volumes, octavo. Recent full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries. 1937
£2,250
First edition, first impression. Series of essays on "Great Men of our age", which includes T. E. Lawrence, Trotsky and Hitler, "We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who...
Octavo, original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. In the dust jacket. 21 plates. Endpapers differentially browned due to the presence of the jacket,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries. 1937
£2,250
First edition, first impression. Series of essays on "Great Men of our age", which includes T. E. Lawrence, Trotsky and Hitler, "We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board gilt, blind bands around head and tail of the boards and spine, publisher's device in blind to lower... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Painting as a Pastime. 1949
£2,250
Third impression. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Churchill to Mrs. Raven, his valet's wife.
Octavo, pp. 32. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered spine and board. Frontispiece and 18 other illustrations. Some fading to cloth and a little foxing,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Typed letter signed to the French writer Pierre Jean Jouve. 22 February, 1945
£2,250
Churchill writes to thank Jouve for a copy of his laudatory publication, "Processionnal de la Force Anglaise". Jouve is widely recognised as one of France's greatest C20th poets,...
1 page, Downing Street letterhead. With the original envelope addressed to Jouve at the British Council offices in Hanover Square. Folded for mailing but fine. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston.
Great Contemporaries. 1943
£2,000
Macmillan edition, second printing. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "From Winston to Sylvia, 1948." Most likely Sylvia Maxwell-Fyfe, wife of Sir David, later Earl...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. 3 pages of facsimile letters. Cloth a little spotted and mottled, slight damp-stain to the fore-edge, consequent mild... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War 1902
£2,000
New and Revised Edition.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, signature to front board gilt, plain... Read more
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, in Italian] Storia. 1956–9
£2,000
First Italian Editions. Inscribed by the author, the first volume signed and dated 1956, the second volume signed. Unmarked as such, but from the library of Churchill's literary...
3 volumes (only, of 4, lacking vol. 3), octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, in the printed dust jackets. Upper panel of the jacket... Read more
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[The Second World War, in Spanish] Memorias ... [1949]
£2,000
Two sections of the first two volumes of the Spanish edition produced as salesmen's samples. Both signed "Winston S. Churchill" and dated 1949. Unmarked as such, but from the library...
2 volumes, octavo. Original wrappers, partly unopened. Plates, maps. Very good. Read more
HENSMAN, Howard.
The Afghan War of 1879-80, 1882
£1,875
Second and best edition, published just three months after the first, and containing an account of events following the disaster at Maiwand. This copy inscribed by the author on the...
Octavo (216 × 133 mm). Recent red half crushed morocco on matching linen boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, the original cloth bound in at the rear. 10... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War; an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. 1899
£1,875
First edition, first printing, second state - with the minor typo at p.459 in volume II corrected - of Churchill's second book, preceded only by The Story of the Malakand Field...
2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and upper boards, facsimile gilt signature and block of one of Kitchener's... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S., & Edward VIII as Prince of Wales.
Typed letter signed congratulating James Carter Gray on being awarded the OBE. 1919
£1,875
Churchill's letter explains that he has had the "pleasure in recommending" Gray's appointment to the OBE to the Prime Minister, and is "glad to learn that the King has approved the...
Octavo, one page, typed letter signed by Churchill as Minister of Munitions, on stationery embossed with the crest of the Ministry of Munitions, together with the... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The World Crisis. 1923–31
£1,800
First editions, first impressions throughout. Working with astonishing speed and energy, Churchill produced this mammoth history of the First World War in the aftermath of electoral...
5 volumes in 6, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spines gilt, titles to upper boards blindstamped. Illustrated throughout with maps and charts (many folding).... Read more
