London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's first book, based on his exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Condition of this unrestored, original, and complete copy approaches very good..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950s. Here are two original, hand painted and lettered dust jacket design concepts for the American first edition of Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by the influential mid-Twentieth Century book jacket designer Philip Grushkin (1921-1998). The designs are executed in gouache, watercolor..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This rarity is a jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of Churchill's The World Crisis in the original publisher's slipcase. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes include Churchill's time at the Front following his political..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second, limited American edition and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly compelling presentation copy of a striking limited edition of the author’s second published book. This copy not only retains the original dust jacket, but is also inscribed by the illustrator..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Hardcover. This the Castle Hill Press limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text, one of 752 sets total and only 75 “extra-illustrated sets” issued thus, with an additional illustrations portfolio and specially-sized slipcase. This edition marked the first time that Lawrence's full text, originally..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2009. Hand-Numbered Limited Edition. Full Leather. This Castle Hill Press limited, finely bound, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Here is copy #1, the first of just 50 issued..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a splendidly clean jacketed U.S. first edition, only printing – by far the cleanest example of the dust jacket we have ever offered. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of..... More
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 rare yellow dust jacket issued just after Churchill became Prime Minister. The book contains text from 41 Churchill speeches spanning 25 October..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an exquisitely finely bound copy of the first edition, first printing. Great Contemporaries is 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: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an exceptionally bright and tight example of the British first edition, first printing, first issue of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March is the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from..... More
New York: Hodder & Stoughton and George H. Doran Co., 1910. First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. There were only 465 copies of this first U.S. first edition of Churchill's third book of speeches (following Mr. Brodrick's Army and For Free Trade), making it among the smallest issues of any..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing. Leather_bound. This is a finely bound copy of the first edition, first printing of Churchill’s autobiography. My Early Life sold very well at the time and has seen a great many editions since, many of them collectible in their own right..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an exquisitely finely bound first edition, first printing of Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Thoughts and Adventures has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers"..... More
New York: Chelsea House Publishers in association with R. R. Bowker Company, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. The eight-volume set Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches was the first and only publication purporting to capture all of Churchill’s speeches in a single, truly massive effort. As published, the eight-volume set contained..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a superior, jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of The World Crisis, Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an inscribed author’s presentation copy of General Spears’s memoir of his role as liaison officer in 1917 during the First World War’s failed Franco-British Nivelle Offensive. The book was a successor to Spears’s Liaison, 1914 (1930). Of note..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1927. Numbered and limited issue of the first edition. Quarter leather. This is the English first, limited, and numbered edition of Revolt in the Desert - the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public in Lawrence’s lifetime. This limited edition was..... More
The German Government (no publisher indicated), 1940 (n.d.). English-language edition, only printing. Paperback. This is a rare, extremely well-preserved, and fascinating wartime Nazi propaganda piece ridiculing Churchill's wartime alliance of convenience with Stalin. It was produced by the Germans specifically to help recruit captured British soldiers to the Britisher Freikorps..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is the British first edition of Churchill's third published book and only novel in a magnificent fine binding commissioned by one of the world’s oldest bookshops. The elegant, red, Morocco goatskin binding features a hubbed spine with..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first American edition, first state, of the author’s first published book. This first American edition was published in a first printing of 750 copies in April 1915, one month after the American edition of North..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, only printing. Full leather. This is a finely bound first edition, only printing of My African Journey, Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. This book is notable, among other..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1931. First edition, first printing, wraps issue. Paperback. This is an exceptionally clean and well-preserved first edition, first printing, in the striking but fragile orange softcover ("wraps") binding. India is a collection of ten Churchill speeches, part of his campaign against the India Bill over which..... More
New York City: Cartier, Inc., 1946. First and only. Photograph. This small archive is the elaborate dinner program and a set of three photographic negatives of Winston S. Churchill from the dinner in his honor at the Waldorf Astoria on 15 March 1946, during which he spoke, staunchly defending the..... More
Wien (Vienna): Verlag Von Julius Springer, 1931. First edition. Wraps. This is the first edition (in German) of the second published book by economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. This was Hayek’s first book based on his work with the London School of Economics and the result of the 1931..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934. Second American Edition. Hardcover. This second American edition of the author’s first published book is inscribed by Frost, apparently to his American publisher's secretary in four lines on the front free endpaper recto: "For Helen Lynch | from | Robert Frost | April..... More