Canberra: The Department of Information, 1940. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This item is from the personal collection of Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen. This is the first Australian edition of one of Churchill's most famous speeches. Churchill's speech to Parliament of August 20th, 1940 was occasioned by the Battle... More
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office (H.M.S.O.), 1914. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing pamphlet publication of Churchill's 10 March 1914 statement to Parliament as First Lord of the Admiralty explaining the navy estimates of 1914-1915. The 17-page pamphlet is bound in paper wraps and... More
Belfast: Printed by W. & G. Baird, Ltd., Undated. Pamphlet. This is a bibliographically unidentified publication of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s speech of 2 August 1944 to the House of Commons. Churchill’s bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, identifies only two stand-alone publications of this speech, one published by the Press Department... More
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1965. First edition. Pamphlet. These two scarce and lovely booklets are The Order of Service and 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... More
London: The Times Publishing Company, Limited, 1943. The Times edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This wartime pamphlet comes from the personal collection of Churchill’s bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen. This The Times edition, only printing is the first standalone publication of Winston Churchill’s wartime broadcast of 21 March 1943 from Chequers, the... More
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1945. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This postwar pamphlet is the first edition only printing of Winston S. Churchill's 28 November 1945 speech to the Central Council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Just four months before, on 26 July 1945... More
London: Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1948. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This postwar pamphlet is the first edition only printing of Winston S. Churchill's 21 April 1948 speech at the 21st annual conference of the Central Women's Advisory Committee at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The pamphlet is bound... More
London: The Ministry of Fuel and Power, November 1942. First edition. Pamphlet. This wartime pamphlet comes from the personal collection of Churchill’s bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen. Published in November 1942 during Churchill's wartime premiership, this is the first edition, only printing of this pamphlet including Churchill's undated letter to the... More
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office (H.M.S.O.), 1911. First edition. Pamphlet. This obscure item is a noteworthy and scarce oddity, a bill signed by Winston S. Churchill as Home Secretary in 1910 and published by His Majesty’s Stationary Office in 1911. This is made scarce by its early printing date, relative... More
London: Independent Labour Party, 1947. First edition. Pamphlet. This item is from the personal collection of Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen. This memorial pamphlet for James Maxton, Labour MP and Chairman of the Independent Labour Party from 1926-1931 and 1934-1939, contains a 13-line tribute from Winston S. Churchill. In his... More
London: Shenval Press, undated. First edition. Paperback. This Second World War item is from the personal collection of Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen. This is a small (5.5 x 4.25 inch) undated French volume of Churchill’s war speeches delivered between 1940 and 1942. During his long public life, Winston Churchill... More
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office (H.M.S.O.), 1919. Here we offer an official publication from Churchill's period as Secretary of State for Air relating to the budget for the Royal Air Force, reflecting the fiscal and political challenges inherent to Churchill's efforts to organize and support an effective air force in... More
The International Churchill Society, 1996. Pamphlet. This is a modern pamphlet publication of Churchill’s famous "Iron Curtain" speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946. There, Churchill coined the phrase that described the division between the Soviet Union's sphere of influence and the West. This speech... More
Iceland: 1941. Stiff wraps. This Second World War Royal Navy Sailor’s album contains eight previously unseen, unpublished photos of Winston Churchill’s visit to Iceland on 16 August 1941, just two days after the historic Atlantic Charter was issued. The 6.25 x 9.5 inch (15.7 x 23.8 cm) album contains thirty... More
First World War, Middle Eastern Theatre. This is an original photographic album of 44 snapshot photographs of the life of an enlisted Australian in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. Laid in is a 1 February 1916 holograph letter addressed to the owner of the album from... More
London: The British War Office, printed by Keystone Press Agency Ltd., 1941. Photograph. This is an original, War Office press photo of Winston Churchill (1874-1965) descending the gangplank of the HMS Victory taken in Portsmouth on 31 January 1941. The photo measures 4.75 x 6.75 inches (12 x 17 cm)... More
Berlin: Associated Press, 1940. Photograph. This wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) belonged to the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures 5.25 x 7.25... More
Berlin: Associated Press, 1940. Photograph. This wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) belonged to the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures 5.125 x 7.25... More
Berlin: Associated Press, 1940. Photograph. This wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) belonged to the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures 5.125 x 7.25... More
Berlin: Associated Press German Picture Service, 1940. Photograph. This wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) belonged to the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures... More
Berlin: Associated Press, 1940. Photograph. This wartime press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) belonged to the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures 5.25 x 7.25... More
Berlin: Associated Press German Picture Service, 1940. Photograph. This is an original, wartime press photo of Winston Churchill (1874-1965) originating from the Associated Press German Picture Service, an American news agency on German soil that symbolized the imperfect struggle to maintain free press operations in Nazi Germany. The photo measures... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, first printing of Churchill's extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament. This is a very good plus copy in an unusually bright... More
Toronto: Macmillan, 1923. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a full set of Canadian first editions of Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War, titled The World Crisis. Churchill played a critical, controversial, and varied role in the First World War and his remarkable experience underpins his epic... More
Contoocook, New Hampshire: Churchill Literary Foundation, 1987. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is the first book publication, the finely bound limited first edition, copy #345 of 500 hand-numbered copies. The Dream is Churchill's revealing essay about a ghostly reunion with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in which Winston recounts... More
