Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1994. Full leather. This is a fine, full, twelve-volume set of the Easton Press edition of the Official Biography of Winston Churchill. Begun by Randolph Churchill and completed by Martin Gilbert, Churchill's Official Biography is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life. The..... More
Virginia: Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. This is a striking archive of publications and documents commemorating the presentation of the first Williamsburg Award to Winston Churchill at Drapers' Hall, London, on 7 December 1955. This archive includes two publications of the Proceedings of the Presentation..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition of Companion Volume V, Part 3 of the Official Biography of Sir Winston Churchill. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about..... More
London & Glasgow: Gowans and Gray, Ltd., 1924. First edition. Paperback. This scarce 1924 paperback is a personal reminiscence of Winston S. Churchill’s improbable and extraordinary active service at the Front during the First World War. “The soldiers of Churchill’s command in Flanders in 1916 received him dubiously as an..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition of Companion Volume V, Part 2 of the Official Biography of Sir Winston Churchill. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1993. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a set of British first editions of the three War Papers volumes, the final volumes of Winston Churchill’s Official Biography completed before the death of Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated..... More
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1916. Second Edition. Hardcover. This is the 1916 edition of the first biography of Churchill in the quite scarce dust jacket. In 1905, MacCallum Scott wrote the first biography of Churchill. Churchill was only thirty-one and his future greatness was still both distant and uncertain. Nonetheless..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969. Second, revised Canadian edition. Hardcover. In 1963, Frederick Woods published the first serious bibliography of the works of Winston Churchill. Woods' effort is said to have discovered numerous pieces not even remembered by Churchill or his family. Though now superseded by Ronald Cohen's excellent..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes. The British and U.S. first editions of the eight main..... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Bibliographer Curt Zoller says of this work: "Though it claims to be impartial, this is mainly a critical collection of articles that purports to tell "why he never regained his 1940 popularity, which had reached its nadir by 1942 and caused..... More