London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1938. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the precursor to Churchill's great war speeches, the British first edition in the striking yellow dust jacket issued just after Churchill became Prime Minister. The book contains a collection of speeches spanning the years 1928..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the precursor to Churchill's great war speeches, the U.S. first edition, first printing in the first printing dust jacket, published 11 months before the outbreak of the Second World War. This is the finest jacketed example we..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. This inscribed and jacketed first edition of Bradbury’s first major work and enduring classic, The Martian Chronicles, is inked in blue in four lines on the title page: "BILL! | BEST FROM | RAY BRADBURY | OCT. 1966". First edition..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1917. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This compelling inscribed association copy of the first edition of solider-poet Siegfried Sassoon’s (1886-1967) First World War poetry collection, The Old Huntsman, is inscribed on the front free-end paper “To Mrs. Colefax. | from the author. | June. 1917.” The front..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1956. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a magnificent, full, four-volume British first edition, first printing set of Churchill's sweeping history and last great work. This first edition is regarded as one of the most beautiful productions of Churchill's works, with tall red volumes..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, in the quite scarce hardcover binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches as part of his campaign against the India Bill, over which he broke with his party’s leadership. The first..... More
London: National War Aims Committee, 1918. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This exceptionally rare speech pamphlet contains the speech of 25 April 1918 Churchill delivered in the House of Commons as Minister of Munitions during the First World War. This is the only copy we know of in private ownership..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition. Paperback. This is the first edition, first state of this striking, scarce, and fragile early collection of Churchill's speeches. In 1904, Churchill quit the Conservative Party and joined the Liberals, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him champion progressive..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of the three-volume "definitive" edition of Churchill's war speeches, a presentation set inscribed by the compiler, Charles Eade, to newspaper magnate Viscount Rothermere. The six-line inked inscription on the Volume One front..... More
10 Downing Street, London: 1952. This is a 15 March 1952 memorandum to key members of Churchill’s literary team – known as the “Syndicate”. At the time, Churchill was less than five months into his second and final premiership. He and his team were working to complete the sixth and..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, in the first variant of the quite scarce hardcover binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches, part of his campaign against the India Bill over which he broke with his party’s..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, in the quite scarce hardcover binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches as part of his campaign against the India Bill, over which he broke with his party’s leadership. The first..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. John Lockwood Kipling. First edition. Hardcover. This is a compelling set of British first editions of perhaps Kipling’s most famous works – the first and second Jungle Books. These copies were previously owned by Churchill’s friends and publishers, Frank and Nelson Doubleday, and apparently used..... More
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This jacketed first edition, first printing is inscribed by Heaney in three inked lines on the front free endpaper recto: “For Alan | with good wishes | Seamus Heaney”. Condition of both volume and dust jacket is conservatively graded..... More
Toronto: William Briggs, 1909. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. Here is a rare prize. This first and only Canadian issue of My African Journey is among the scarcest English language first editions of Churchill's book-length works. We have seen only a precious few on the market over many years. My African..... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, second printing of Churchill's second published work, an unrestored, fully intact set in the striking, original bindings. This second printing is readily distinguished from the first printing only by the words "Second Impression" on..... More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1906. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a superior, unread and exceptionally clean first edition set of Winston Churchill's biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. The first edition, only printing, is aesthetically pleasing, featuring deep red cloth, untrimmed page edges, gilt stamping, and the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This is the quite scarce U.S. first "Definitive" edition, only printing of Churchill's war speeches in both dust jackets and the extremely rare publisher’s slipcase – only the fourth set we have offered thus and definitively the best-preserved set we have..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. Signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition. Hardcover. This two-volume set is the publisher's signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition of Carl Sandburg’s biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Distinct from the trade edition, the publisher issued 260..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, increasingly scarce thus with a clean, unfaded binding protected by a first printing dust jacket. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day -..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1948. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. Here is a superior jacketed set of all five of Churchill's post-WWII speech volumes, increasingly challenging to assemble thus. This set is among the best we have been able to offer. All five volumes in this set..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a compellingly well-preserved jacketed British first edition, first printing of an important Churchill title - his last book published before the outbreak of the Second World War. This copy – the best we have offered - is unusually..... More
London: Issued by The National Savings Committee, Crown Copyright Reserved, and printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Chromoworks, Ltd., 1944. This is a striking original Second World War propaganda poster in support of the 1944 “Salute the Soldier” fundraising campaign. The poster, arrestingly printed in red, black, and blue..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. A superior first edition with impeccable genre association. This is a Donald A. Wollheim’s publisher’s review copy, a collector-worthy example in dust jacket and an important association copy that belonged to “one of the most important editorial influences on sf”. Doubleday..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the finest jacketed example of the U.S. first edition, only printing we have encountered. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S...... More