London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, second printing, increasingly scarce thus with a clean, bright binding protected by its dust jacket. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day - including the..... More
London & New York: Hodder and Stoughton; George H. Doran Company, 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, humbler in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. Lauren Ford. First edition. Hardcover. This interesting little book is excerpted from Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. On 29 December 1938, Churchill wrote to his wife regarding his initial draft about this part of his history: "I have just finished writing..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1933. Hardcover. This is a jacketed 1933 first printing, first binding state, of the "Keystone Library" issue, produced by the publisher from first edition plates. Thornton Butterworth published the first edition in 1932. Less than a year later, in September 1933, Thornton Butterworth issued..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first U.S. edition, first printing, of Churchill's much praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day - including the likes of Lawrence, Shaw, and, most famously, Hitler... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1938. First revised and expanded edition. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the first revised and expanded edition of Churchill’s much-praised collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day. This edition, published in 1938 soon after the first edition of 1937, added four..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1932. First abridged and revised edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed British first edition, second printing of the first Abridged & Revised edition of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. There were three printings of this British first Abridged & Revised edition..... More
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is Churchill's third book and only novel, U.S. first edition, second printing, quite scarce thus in the red cloth binding variant. Of note, this is one of the few Churchill books for which the U.S...... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1941. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, only printing. Hardcover. This collectible wartime reprint is the first Macmillan issue of the abridged and revised single-volume edition of Winston Churchill’s acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World..... More
Sydney, Melbourne: Australasian Publishing Company Ltd., 1923. First Australian edition. Hardcover. This is the Australian first edition of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill’s history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937. Keystone Library Issue, second printing. Hardcover. This the second printing of the Keystone Library issue of Winston Churchill’s extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament. My Early Life was originally published in..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1943. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, third printing. Hardcover. This Second World War reprint of Winston Churchill’s autobiography has interesting wartime provenance. Per an elaborate printed grey plate affixed to the front pastedown, this copy was a gift from British industrialist Alexander Duckham to..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1941. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, first printing. Hardcover. This is a Second World War reprint of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s autobiography of his early life, published in February 1942, less than two years into Churchill’s wartime premiership. Churchill's extremely popular..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1944. Hardcover. This is an uncommonly bright and clean example of the fourth and final wartime reprint of Churchill's extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament. This book was originally published by Thornton Butterworth..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1940. Keystone Library Issue, third and final printing. Hardcover. This the third and final printing of the Keystone Library issue of Winston Churchill’s extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament. My Early Life was..... More
Sacramento, California: The Churchilliana Company, 1977. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This copy of the first U.S. edition in the publisher’s brick-red cloth library binding was acquired years ago from the original publisher’s remaining stock. Hence condition is virtually as new, unworn and unread. The 1903 first edition of Mr..... More
New York: Halcyon-Commonwealth Foundation, 1965. Second Edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the 1965 (the year of Churchill’s death) publication of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946. This edition of the speech contains a preface by Truman, and..... More
London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1907. Hardcover. This is the 1907 first one-volume unabridged edition of Winston Churchill’s biography of his father. The British first edition was published in two volumes in 1906. In 1907, the publisher issued this one-volume edition, containing the full text of the two-volume work as..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1943. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, third printing. Hardcover. This is a Second World War reprint of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s autobiography of his early life, published in 1943, during Churchill’s wartime premiership. Churchill's extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1948. First edition, first printing. Half leather. This is a finely bound, full, six-volume set of British first editions of The Second World War, Winston Churchill's history of the epic 20th Century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. The bindings feature dark..... More
London: Educational Book Co., Ltd., 1955. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. This is the "Chartwell Edition" of Churchill's The Second World War, bound in the publisher's original "deluxe" blue quarter leather. This first illustrated edition of The Second World War was published soon after the British first edition and is aesthetically..... More
Canada: Winnipeg Free Press, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 1940. First edition, both individual and collective issues. Paperback. This is a collection of eight early Second World War pamphlets, each publishing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speeches spanning 13 May 1940 to 12 November 1940. These pamphlets were published in Canada..... More
Taipei: Zhuo Liu quing Di and Xinyue Books Co., Ltd, July 1964. Hardcover. Here is a full, jacketed set of three volumes of the pirated Taiwanese edition of Churchill's war speeches. Originally issued in 1951 when Churchill returned as Prime Minister, the definitive 3-volume British edition of Churchill's War Speeches..... More
London: The Educational Book Company, Ltd., 1956. Chartwell (First Illustrated) Edition. Hardcover. This is a full, four-volume set of the first illustrated edition, which was published contemporaneously with the first edition and is known as "The Chartwell Edition." This is a particularly handsome edition of Churchill’s sweeping history and last..... More
Taipei: Book World Company, undated. Hardcover. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is Churchill's sweeping history and last great work. The first draft was completed just before the Second World War, but the work was not completed and published until after Churchill's second and final Premiership, nearly 20 years later..... More