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.
Savrola. 1900
£1,500
First UK Edition, First Impression. Preceded by the more common and far less attractive US edition. Churchill's only novel. Scarce in this condition.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, black coated endpapers. Sporadic foxing throughout the book as usual, more dense early and late,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola. 1900
£450
First UK edition. This novel represents the author's only attempt at full-length fiction, a melodramatic tale of a liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state: the hero,...
Octavo, contemporary black cloth rebind, title gilt to the spine. Bookplate of Culcheth Sunday School Circulating Library to the front pastedown, occasional blind... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. 1900
£475
New impression. This novel represents the author's only attempt at full-length fiction, a melodramatic tale of a liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state: the hero,...
Octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Some occasional light foxing, an... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. 1900
£1,500
First UK Edition. The US printing preceded the English but the latter is a decidedly less common book and more appealing to boot.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. 1956
£4,500
Second US edition, with a new foreword by the author and a splendid pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Churchill on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill for...
Octavo. Original blue and red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, light blue geometric pattern to spine, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. In a brown... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Signed Photograph of Churchill and A.V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty outside Downing Street, Winter 1941. 1941
£4,500
Churchill and Alexander are shown on a snow-covered Downing Street, both wearing heavy top coats and with highly Churchillian cigars. Churchill is waving his hat to the...
Good large press photograph, (258 × 175 mm), mounted on card. Very slight damage at the top left-hand corner, but overall very good contemporarily mounted on... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Speech … at the Mass Meeting, Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Saturday 5th October, 1946. 1946
£175
First edition. Churchill's speech to Conference, it opens with a somewhat weak Churchillian joke: "We have certainly had a depressing year since the General election. I do not blame...
Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original printed paper wrappers. Staples rusted, some associated staining, slightly rubbed and with a vertical crease from folding, but... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Step by Step 1936-1939. 1939
£1,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles to spine with lion centre tools in compartments, raised bands, signature block to front board,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Step by Step. 1936–1939. 1939
£450
First Edition.
Octavo., pp. 366. Bound in recent full red morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With two maps. Fine copy in... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The British Gazette. No. 1–8. 1926
£375
First editions. Churchill edited The British Gazette during the 1926 General Strike. The paper ran for 8 issues between 5–13 May excluding Sunday 9 and was printed at The Daily...
8 issues. Folio. Folded as issued. Some folds with wear but overall very good. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The British Gazette. No. 1–8. 1926
£375
First editions. Churchill edited The British Gazette during the 1926 General Strike. The paper ran for 8 issues between 5–13 May excluding Sunday 9 and was printed at The Daily...
8 issues. Folio. Folded as issued. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander box. A little browned, some folds with wear but overall very good. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Conduct of the War by Sea. 1915
£350
First and only edition, first print run of 2,500 copies, Cohen notes 13,000 copies printed, perhaps including subsequent impressions. Also published in Danish, Dutch, French, German,...
Octavo. Later black cloth-backed boards, original front wrap mounted on the upper. Ink-stamp of the Over-Seas Club to the upper wrap, else very good. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Eve of Action. 1944
£1,500
First Edition, First Impression. "This is no time for sorrow or rejoicing. It is a time for preparation and resolve." In his speech to the House Churchill laid particular emphasis on...
Small quarto. Single quire, wire stitched into the original red wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Frontis portrait of the author. An... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The First Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition. 1973–76
£7,500
The Centenary Edition is the only collected works of Winston Churchill. Although the stated limitation is 3000 sets worldwide, only some 1700 sets were issued. This set comes with...
39 volumes, octavo. Original full vellum, armorial device to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the slipcases. Slight discolouration to a couple of... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The First Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition. 1973
£5,000
First centenary edition. This is the only collected works of Winston Churchill. Although the stated limitation is 3,000 sets worldwide, only some 1,700 sets were issued. Four...
34 volumes, octavo. Original full vellum, armorial device to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt. Slight discolouration to a couple of volumes, as often. An... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Liberal Government and Naval Policy. 1912
£295
First edition, this copy "rubber hand-stamped '15' in the upper right-hand corner of the cover," and therefore one of those disbound from the collections bound up as Pamphlets and...
Octavo. Later red half calf on marbled boards, title gilt to the spine, original self-wraps bound in, bulked with blanks. Very good. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War 1933
£350
First Cheap Edition.
Octavo. Recent full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With 22 maps and plates. A fine copy. 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
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War 1933
£1,500
First Cheap Edition.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, Churchill's... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War, an Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. 1899
£3,750
First Edition, First Impression of Churchill's second book, preceded by The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), "2000 copies published on 6 November 1899" (Woods). It includes,...
2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spines and upper boards gilt, black coated endpapers. With 25 illustrations, 16 maps... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War. 1933
£4,750
First Cheap Edition. With a new introduction. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill Oct. 21 1934".
Octavo. Original mauve cloth, titles to spine in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco drop down box. With maps and plans. Hinges cracked, contents a little... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War. 1902
£1,375
Second edition, revised, first one volume edition. 1000 copies printed on the 15th October, 1902. The text had been revised considerably, and a new chapter added describing the...
Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles and pictorial decoration to both spine and front board, black endpapers. With frontispiece, maps and plans, six of them... 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.
The River War; an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. 1899
£5,500
First edition, first impression, second state - minor typographic error corrected on p459 of volume II - 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.
The Second World War 1948–54
£7,500
First editions, first impressions. Inscribed on the title page of Volume I; "Inscribed for Sam Hammersley by Winston S. Churchill, 1951," initialled by Churchill on the front free...
6 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain, patterned endpapers. With supplied dust jackets. With diagrams and tables throughout the... Read more
