London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing, first state, first binding state. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first state, first binding state of Winston Churchill's autobiography. Two states of the first edition, first printing are identified, with a list of either 11 or 12 Churchill..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, third printing, increasingly scarce thus with a clean, bright binding protected by its third printing dust jacket. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day -..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1941. U.S. first edition, fourth and final printing. Hardcover. This is the precursor to Churchill's great war speeches, the U.S. first edition, fourth and final printing in dust jacket, published in September 1941, sixteen months after the author became wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain..... More
No place indicated: No publisher indicated, c. 1940. Leaflet. This is a rare and fascinating wartime propaganda piece ridiculing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Second World War alliance of convenience with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The unsigned, undated leaflet reproduces excerpts from five unidentified pieces of Churchill’s writing. The leaflet..... More
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1965. First edition. Pamphlet. This lovely booklet is The Ceremonial To Be Observed printed for Churchill’s full state funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral on 30 January 1965. On Sunday, 24 January 1965, Winston Churchill died at the age of 90. By the time of his..... More
London: 1941. This pair of bookends, made of stone from the bomb-damaged House of Commons in 1941, features medallion portraits of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt cast in lead from the House of Commons roof. Two features of this set are..... More
England: Copeland/Spode, 1965. This handsome piece of Churchilliana is a quite scarce variation on a jug originally produced by Copeland/Spode early during the Second World War, in 1941, and reissued in this unique shape in 1965 as a commemoration following Churchill’s death. This example – one of only..... More
England: Copeland/Spode, 1965. This handsome piece of Churchilliana is a quite scarce variation on a jug originally produced by Copeland/Spode early during the Second World War, in 1941, and reissued in this unique shape in 1965 as a commemoration following Churchill’s death. This example – one of only..... More
London: 1941. This pair of bookends, made of stone from the bomb-damaged House of Commons in 1941, features medallion portraits of Big Ben cast in lead from the House of Commons roof. Such sets are known to us featuring twin medallions of Churchill, one medallion each of Churchill..... More
England: Copeland/Spode, 1941. This is a handsome piece of Churchilliana, an illustrated jug produced by Copeland/Spode in 1941. It was produced under wartime restrictions. One side of the pitcher features a cameo of Churchill with a warship to his left, a tank to his right, and a fighter aircraft above..... More
England: Copeland/Spode, 1941. This is a handsome piece of Churchilliana, an illustrated jug produced by Copeland/Spode in 1941. It was produced under wartime restrictions. One side of the pitcher features a cameo of Churchill with a warship to his left, a tank to his right, and a fighter aircraft above..... More
Fordingbridge, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Limited, hand-numbered, signed, and specially-bound issue of the Second Edition of the Oxford Text. Hardcover. This remarkable piece of 20th century fine press scholarship and production is the very first set issued of the finest publisher’s binding of the very first commercial publication of..... More
Saki, Crimea, U.S.S.R. Privately compiled, 1945. Album. This is a truly singular and quite compelling Second World War album belonging to, and compiled by, R.A.F. Group Captain Walter J. Pickard, containing meticulously captioned photographs and mementos of his work flying VIPs during the 1945 Yalta Conference, a number of “Secret”..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing, first state, first binding state. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first state, first binding state of Winston Churchill's autobiography. Two states of the first edition, first printing are identified, with a list of either 11 or 12 Churchill..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a six-volume jacketed set of British first editions of The Second World War, Winston S. Churchill's history of the epic 20th Century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. Jacketed British first edition sets in..... More
New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1906. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill’s 1906 biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. This U.S. edition is visually similar but aesthetically superior to its British counterpart, the volumes featuring gilt top..... More
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Ltd., 1900. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. This is the scarce Canadian first edition of Churchill's fifth book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper dispatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. During this..... More
New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1906. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill’s 1906 biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. This U.S. edition is visually similar but aesthetically superior to its British counterpart, the volumes featuring gilt top..... More
Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1942. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is the beautiful limited edition of Churchill's famous address to Congress, which he delivered only weeks after Pearl Harbor. One of 1,000 copies printed, this copy is in very good condition. The maroon cloth binding is clean, with..... More
50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York: British Library of Information, 1940. First edition, only printing. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's "Speech on the Surrender of the Belgian Army" delivered in the House of Commons on 28 May 1940, just 18 days after Churchill became Britain’s wartime Prime..... More
Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1943. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This handsome and scarce limited edition of Churchill's 19 May 1943 address to the U.S. Congress was produced for Members of Congress by Frank Altschul’s Overbrook Press. This was Churchill's second address to Congress, seventeen long months of war having passed..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1940. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during..... More
London: British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1941. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during..... More
London: British Ministry of Information in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1941. First edition. Leaflet. "If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This original leaflet issued by the British..... More
New York: The British Library of Information, 1941. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's broadcast speech of 27 April 1941 - Churchill's famous "Westward, Look, the Land is Bright" speech in which he praises the resolve and heroism of the British people..... More