Churchill at Chartwell 2013

Churchill Style The ART of Being Winston Churchill

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL IN FIRST EDITION

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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CATALOGUE

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30 1983-2013

THE LAST LION

Defender of the Realm 1940-1965

by William Manchester & Paul Reid

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The Art of Being Winston Churchill

By Barry Singer Foreword by Michael Korda

SIGNED American Edition

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s a cigar smoker, a champagne drinker, a home-owner, a painter, and even as a dresser, Winston Churchill had extravagant personal style. Churchill Style: The Art Of Being Winston Churchill shares with readers the private world that Churchill created for himself away from politics. Written by Barry Singer, the founder and longtime proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers, with a foreword by the legendary author and editor Michael Korda, Churchill Style lushly savors the many facets of Churchill’s day-to-day life with scores of color photographs, illustrations, and documents – many from Churchill family archives – that have never been published before.

It really is an illustrated Churchill biography like no other. And, as you may imagine, all our copies are signed by the author.

Welcome to our 30th Anniversary catalogue of Churchilliana.

Churchill Style is our inspiration this year; the recently published book by Chartwell proprietor Barry Singer.

Herewith, you will find “The Art of Being Winston Churchill” illustrated with chronological pairings of important letters, signed photographs and fascinating pieces of personal ephemera alongside First Edition copies of each of Churchill’s 34 primary book-length works; a Churchill bio-chronology in microcosm.

As always, we continue to offer everything else relating to Winston Churchill, including the very latest, newly published books about him. The entirety of our inventory may be viewed on our website: www.churchillbooks.com.

We are obviously pleased, and more than a bit amazed, to still be here after 30 years.

Thank you for staying with us.

CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS

First American Edition $40.00 #19458

At long last, the final volume of one of the most popular Churchill biographies ever written, completed posthumously

by William Manchester’s designated heir, Paul Reid.

THE LAST LION The Complete Trilogy in First Edition $500.00 #19556

A rare, true First Edition set of the now-completed trilogy, in unclipped dust jackets that are crisp and bright. Contents fine; virtually mint, in all cases. Almost as difficult to find in this condition as the project was to complete.

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

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~EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED~

1898

(1898)

“ The speeches were successful but I hope to make considerable progress with practice.”

Churchill’s first book, true-life military adventures drawn from newspaper despatches filed by the 22-year-old correspondent while serving on India’s Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier under Major-General Sir Bindon Blood. Wrenching to read how little has changed in this region since Churchill’s time. The First English edition is easily distinguished by its apple-green cloth binding but MALAKAND is prized by collectors in almost any edition.

$11,500 #16320

First English Edition (Cohen A1.1.a) (Woods A1a)

$6,500 #14213

A very good copy in the scarce mottled-green cloth binding variant.

The cloth here is impressively fresh and bright, the binding crisp and tight. The contents are fine, save for very faint scattered foxing limited almost entirely to the fore-edges. This would be an exceptional example, if not for an unfortunate single reddish stain line that runs across the title on the spine and splashes in two small spots on the rear board. That is a shame. The book, however, is anything but.

Really a beautiful copy.

THE RIVER WAR

1899

More blood and guts reportage by young Winston, the war correspondent, here in his second book delivering a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest that Churchill himself participated in and, in many significant ways, disapproved of. Originally published in two large, lavish and, today, extremely rare volumes.

All subsequent editions were significantly abridged.

First English Edition Set (Cohen A2.1.a) (Woods A2a)

$12,500 #14220

An extraordinarily beautiful set, the blue-black cloth uncharacteristically clean and fresh, the gilt lettering unusually bright, the binding especially square and tight. There is scattered light foxing throughout, more pronounced at the prelims, but overall this is as fine an example of this proud, perishable two-volume tome as may be found. Preserved in a very handsome purpose-built slipcase of recent vintage.

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marvelous, youthful, three-page letter, all in Churchill’s hand, dated Oct. 25. 98, written to Churchill’s first cousin, Ivor Guest (son of Lord Randolph’s sister, Cornelia), on one folded sheet [ 71⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 inches ] of 35A Great Cumberland Place W. letterhead (Churchill’s mother’s home), as Churchill was preparing to return to India following his time with Kitchener in the Sudan: My dear Ivor, I have postponed my departure for India until next Friday. I shall hope to come to Paris a day earlier so as to have a talk with you. I hope you read the Morning Post of 25th and 27th instant.

The speeches were successful but I hope to make considerable progress with practice. I speak at Portsmouth on Monday night and after that no more till next year. I will write to you and let you know my plans as to Paris.

You must have witnessed some strange scenes in the last few days. A democracy gone wrong is a terrible spectacle.

After all the only difference between us the other night was one which has long agitated the world. You follow Epicurus – I incline to Zeno. There is nobility in both. But I think more vitality in the second. Ever yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill.

The “strange scenes” in Paris and the “democracy gone wrong” that the 23-year-old Churchill remarks upon here are references to the Dreyfus Affair. The speeches he mentions, delivered at Rotherhithe, Dover and Southsea, were among his earliest public political addresses.

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1900

SAVROLA

The first and only Churchill novel, a statement of personal and political philosophy delivered as a fictional adventure yarn. U.S. publication preceded the British issue, rendering the American first edition the true first.

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~CHURCHILL AND TWAIN AT THE WALDORF ~ AN ORIGINAL INVITATION CARD (1900)

$3,950 #13562

First American Edition (Cohen A3.1.a) (Woods A3a)

$2,000 #13759

A very good copy, the blue cloth and gilt lettering fresh and bright, the contents fine, entirely unfoxed. The spine points are lightly rubbed at the head and tail, as are the cover corners, front and rear. The title page is creased at the upper corner from having once been folded and page 5 has been a bit roughly separated, but this is otherwise a fine example.

First English Edition (Cohen A3.2.a) (Woods A3ba)

$1,500 #10398

This is a lovely copy of the scarce First English edition, square and tight, with sharp corners, bright gilt, robust cloth color and an unfaded spine that is marred by very scattered discoloration along the cover edges.

The contents are lightly foxed throughout and there is an owner ink inscription on the half-title, else fine.

Bibliographic numbers (in parentheses) are from Frederick Woods’s original Churchill bibliography (Woods), as emended by Richard Langworth in his Connoisseur’s Guide; and from the new, greatly expanded Churchill bibliography by Ronald Cohen (Cohen).

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n the evening of December 12, 1900, in the Grand Ballroom of New York’s WaldorfAstoria hotel, Lieutenant Winston Churchill – a 26-year-old Boer War hero on his first-ever lecture tour of the United States – arrived to speak about his daring Boer War adventures. “The grand ballroom,” wrote the New York Times, “was crowded to the doors.”

Introducing Mr. Churchill was none other than Samuel Clemens (then-age 65), better known as Mark Twain.

In his memoir My Early Life, Churchill recalled: “I was thrilled by this famous companion of my youth. He was now very old and snow-white, and combined with a noble air a most delightful style of conversation… he was good enough at my request to sign every one of thirty volumes of his works for my benefit; and in the first volume he inscribed the following maxim intended, I daresay, to convey a gentle admonition: “To do good is noble; to teach others to do good is nobler, and no trouble.”

This is an original invitation card sent by Churchill’s lecture booking agent, Major J.B. Pond, for “a seat on the platform as one of the reception committee on the occasion of Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill’s first lecture in New York... Mr. S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain) will preside and deliver the address of welcome to Mr. Churchill.” The card measures 3 3⁄4 x 4 3⁄4 inches and is in fine condition, just a trifle darkened with age. Oh, to have been there that night. As close as we can get.

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LONDON TO LADYSMITH (VIA PRETORIA)

1900

~BOER WAR TOBACCO CARDS~

The first of two Boer War volumes derived from young Winston’s newspaper despatches as a war correspondent, featuring a thrilling account of his escape from the Boers, an escape that helped launch his political career. The First English edition was published elaborately in fawn-colored cloth stamped with a striking cover illustration of the infamous armored train that Churchill was defending when he was captured.

“ Mr. Winston Churchill” (1901) $185 #2603

Elegant, bust-length portrait drawing of young Winston Churchill in Boer War battle dress; 1 of 45 cards in a “Boer War Celebrities” series issued in 1901. The card verso advertises “Sweet Crop Smoking Mixture.” The card is in virtually mint condition.

First English Edition (Cohen A4.1.a) (Woods A4a)

$1,850 #14234

An unusually handsome copy with bright cover art and a spine that is neither faded, darkened or worn. The corners are sharp and the binding is especially tight, with notably fresh black endpapers. There is foxing to the prelims and lower fore-edge only and an owner name in ink on the front free endpaper.

The contents are fine, with all maps present, including the tissue guard at page 366. Very rarely seen thus.

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“Famous Escapes: Winston Churchill’s Escape from Pretoria” (1926) $200 #2645

IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH

1 of 10 cards in a “Famous Escapes” series that was issued in 1926 in three different-sized cards, of which this is the largest size. Lightly creased, else fine. A one-paragraph account of the escape is printed on the verso.

1900

The culmination of Churchill’s Boer War narrative including the triumphant liberation of his former POW camp in Pretoria.

First English Edition Cohen A8.1.a) (Woods A5)

$1,750 #14237

A particularly lovely copy, the cloth fresh, the gilt lettering and spine lightly faded but unworn. The binding is tight and the corners are sharp. The contents are fine, with a former-owner name in ink on the front free endpaper, and the half-title oddly trimmed of an upper half-inch, not affecting the printed title itself.

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

1906

Churchill’s impassioned two-volume biography written in defense of his maligned father’s posthumous reputation. Subsequently issued in an unabridged one-volume edition. A bulwark of any Churchill collection.

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VINTAGE CABINET CARD ~ ~ RT. HON. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, M.P. (circa 1880s)

$225 #16133

First English Edition Set [Association Copy]

This handsome vintage stereoscopic cabinet card [6 1⁄4 x 4 inches] is in extraordinarily fine condition and quite rare thus, with just a tiny chip to the upper left corner, not affecting the image.

(Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a)

$750 #19469

ORIGINAL VANITY FAIR PRINT~ ~FRAMED LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL BY “SPY” (1880)

$350 #19429

This is a very good set. The books are square and tight but faded along the spines, with a short closed tear at the spine head of Volume II. The red cloth and gilt titles are fresh and bright, with a small rub on the front board of Volume II, else fine. The contents are fine, with very light, very scattered foxing. Ornate portrait bookplates belonging to HERBERT JOHN GLADSTONE are affixed to the front pastedowns of both volumes. The youngest son of Prime Minister William E. Gladstone, Herbert J. Gladstone was, in fact, born at No. 11 Downing Street, during his father’s tenancy as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in February 1854. A British Liberal statesman, he served as Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910, before being succeeded in that office by Winston Churchill.

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This original vintage print was published in Vanity Fair magazine on July 10, 1880, captioned: “The Younger Son” [of the Duke of Marlborough], drawn by Leslie Ward, who signed himself “Spy.” Twenty years later, Ward would famously draw the first caricature of young Winston Churchill to be published in Vanity Fair.

From 1868 to 1914, Vanity Fair published over 2,300 lithographic caricatures of the dominant figures in British society; politicians, royalty, peers, bishops and socialites, as well as lions of the arts, science and sport, often to illustrate an ongoing series of profiles entitled: “Men of the Day” (which was the source of this particular caricature). The print has been overmatted in pale green and very handsomely framed in black lacquer.

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1906

FOR FREE TRADE

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A FREE TRADER ~ ~WHY I AM One of the Rarest

In tandem with MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY, this has always been the holy grail of Churchill books and may in fact be even rarer than the infamous BRODRICK. A small, 136-page paperback-size collection of nine speeches delivered on the title subject by Winston Churchill as a 31-year-old MP for Manchester, it was published by Arthur L. Humphreys, Manager of Hatchard’s, the venerable London bookshop. Identical with BRODRICK, FOR FREE TRADE was crudely produced, bound in red printed wraps and, again, the surviving handful of copies (as few as twelve accounted for today) constitute the stuff of collectors’ dreams.

of all Churchill Pamphlets (1905) (Cohen A15) (Woods A7/1)

$8,500 #17674

First English Edition (Cohen A18.2.a) (Woods A9)

Please Inquire for Price #14349

This is without question the rarest Churchill first edition available today. The front cover has triangular losses at each corner, as well as some surface chipping, but is attached and intact. The front cover has also darkened with age and there is a faint pencil marking visible near the publisher’s name.

The spine has fragmented but is entirely present. Though published blank, it has been hand-lettered in now-faded ink: Free Trade. Churchill, M.P. The rear cover (which advertises Mr. Brodrick’s Army) is brighter and less worn. The binding is strong and the contents are fine, clean and unfoxed. The title page is stamped: Reference Dept ,The National Union , 10 Apr 1906. The book is preserved in a simple blue cloth chemise with leather spine label.

MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY (1903) First American Edition (1977) (Cohen 10.3.b) (Woods A6c)

$125 #19481

Contemporary facsimile reprint.

A virtually mint copy.

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riginally issued as the first in a series entitled Coming Men on Coming Questions, this 24-page stapled paper pamphlet [9 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄8 inches] constituted Churchill’s first published statement on the Free Trade question that had prompted him to cross the aisle from Conservative to Liberal just one year before. The front cover here has partially separated along the upper third of the spine and is lightly foxed and faintly scratched but is entirely intact. The rear cover has one or two closed short tears. The contents are fine. Overall, an exceedingly good copy of this very scarce and fragile Churchill rarity with its marvelous cover photograph.

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MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

1908

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WINSTON SPENSER CHURCHILL, ESQ. M.P.

Big game hunting with young Churchill as guide; a travelogue of Britain’s East Africa possessions written by the then-Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. The First English edition is particularly coveted for its handsome cover woodcut of the author posed beside a trophy rhinoceros.

The more plainly-bound American edition, which utilized English first edition sheets, has no woodcut on its brownish-red buckram cover, but is a far rarer book.

(circa 1908) $200 #19462

First English Edition (Cohen A27.1) (Woods A12aa)

$1,850 #14070

A very good copy, with bright cover art, tight, square binding and a lovely rounded spine that is significantly less faded than usual. There are two faint spots of wear in the cloth of the front cover face and one even fainter mark on the rear face, else fine. There is a lengthy vintage ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated “Christmas 1909,” and some very mild foxing to the half-title and prelims. The contents are otherwise clean throughout. A first-class example.

First American Edition (1909) (Cohen A27.6) (Woods A12ab)

$1,250 #14436

This is a handsome copy of the far rarer First American edition (the second issue, per bibliographer Ronald Cohen). The spine has faded just a bit and there is light scattered foxing to the prelims, front and rear, more pronounced at the rear. There is a tiny ink notation on the rear pastedown, else fine, with robust cloth, tight, square binding and clean contents.

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superb three-quarter length, sepia-toned photographic portrait of young Winston Churchill by John Thomson, the pioneering Scottish photojournalist, who became a widely admired portrait photographer of London society late in life. The postcard [8 3⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 inches] is in mint condition; the verso is unused.

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LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

1909

Churchill’s first widely distributed hardcover collection of political speeches, expressing “radical” liberal views that were quite advanced for his time, prefiguring the modern welfare state that Churchill and David Lloyd George would set in motion. Though the burgundy clothbound English edition was handsomely produced, with Churchill’s signature in gilt across the front board, the American edition, similarly bound but without the gilt signature, is rarer. Increasingly scarce in either edition.

First English Edition (Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a)

$1,450 #16318

This is a very good copy, the spine darkened ever so slightly with age but the cloth and gilt still vividly fresh, uniformly smooth, rich and bright, with sharp corners. There is light scattered foxing to the prelims and fore-edges, else fine.

First American Edition (1909) (Cohen A29.2) (Woods A15c)

$1,500 #10219

An absolutely beautiful copy of the far rarer American issue, one of only 465 copies produced. The cloth and gilt are exceptionally fresh, bright and unfaded, the binding is square and tight. There is a previous owner name inked on the front free endpaper and the prelims only are partially toned across the upper page edges, with very faint scattered foxing throughout, else fine.

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LETTER SIGNED ~ ~AUTOGRAPH(1909) “...both Clemmie and the baby are getting on exceptionally well.” $6,500 #18398

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his personal note, all in Churchill’s hand, on embossed Board of Trade letterhead, is dated July 15, 1909, just four days after the birth of the Churchills’ first child, Diana: Dear Lady Pentland Thank you so much for your kind letter.

I will give your message to Clemmie.

Both she and the baby are getting on exceptionally well. I am very sorry I cannot dine with you on the 27th as I have promised to go to an “Arbitration dinner.”

Yours very sincerely, Winston S. Churchill.

LADY MARJORIE PENTLAND was a leading hostess of the Liberal Party and an avowed suffragette.

Churchill’s tenure at the Board of Trade, after his appointment by Prime Minister Asquith in April 1908, was one of the most progressive in British history. It also encompassed his wedding to Clementine Hozier in September 1908.

The note, on a single folded sheet of stationery [7 1⁄4 x 4 3⁄4 inches], is in extraordinarily fresh condition.

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1910

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

Six speeches from the 1910 General Election rebuking the Tories for their rejection of “The People’s Budget.” Originally published in simultaneous hard and softcover editions, the book is rarely encountered today in either format. In fact, this is probably the third rarest Churchill work after MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY and FOR FREE TRADE. It was reprinted twice in the 1970s, though even these reprints are scarce today.

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FAIR PRINT BY “NIBS” ~ ~“WINNIE” VANITY (1911) $2,000 #18946

First English Hardcover Edition (Cohen A31.1.b) (Woods A16aa)

$12,500 #14416

An extravagantly rare copy of the first hardcover edition in superb condition. In his definitive Churchill bibliography, Ronald Cohen reveals that this hardcover (“cased”) edition consisted of only 100 copies, bound on December 20, 1909, two weeks before the softcover edition was bound. “It is, at least, very clear,” writes Cohen, “that only a few such copies were offered for sale and that they are extremely scarce.”

The book also did not age especially well, but this is a first-rate example of the Second State, with the pagination for page 71 corrected (and an Appendix and Index at rear). The cloth is a rich, deep red, the gilt lettering is bright on the front face, though the spine has faded considerably. The binding is tight, the boards clean, if just faintly bowed, the pages faintly browned, as per usual, and there is a discreet ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper.

Else fine. Most certainly, in this hardcover format, the third rarest volume in the Churchill canon.

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rare original vintage print of this legendary caricature of young Winston Churchill, as published in Vanity Fair magazine in March 1911, drawn by the noted illustrator Frederick Drummond Niblett (1861-1928), whose nome de plume was “Nibs.” This fine example has been overmatted in green and handsomely framed in black lacquer.

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THE WORLD CRISIS

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1923-31

Churchill’s highly subjective history of the First World War; five volumes (in six books) written over eight years. Initial volumes were first published in the U.S. (by a matter of days), making the American edition the true first edition. Volume 1 (1911-1914) and Volume 2 (1915) were published in 1923. Volume 3 (1916-1918 ) was published in two parts in 1927 (hence the five/in six volumes ultimate format. Volume 4 ( THE AFTERMATH 1918-1928) was published in 1929; and Volume 5 ( THE UNKNOWN WAR [U.S.]/THE EASTERN FRONT [U.K.]) in 1931.

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First American Edition Set (Mixed First Printings)

(Cohen A69.1[I-IV.a/V-VI.b]) (Woods A31aa)

$5,750 #15322

Signed in ink on the half-title of the final volume: “To: J. Jay Elliott, Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, 1932.”

Above the inscription, Churchill has added the words: “on Trek,” confirming that this book was signed by Churchill in the midst of his lecture tour promoting its publication. Volumes I-III (Books 1-4) are First Printings of the First American edition. The Aftermath (Book 5) and the signed The Unknown War (Book 6) are Second Printings of the First American edition. All are in exceptional condition. The cloth of Volume I has uniquely retained its rich color, unsullied by the usual fading that is common with this particular book. The other volumes are similarly bright, with scant shelfwear, save for a hint of fraying at their spine heads.

The contents are fine as well, save for a former owner’s bookplates affixed to the front pastedowns of Volumes II-IV (Books 2-5). Else fine.

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POSTCARDS ~ ~WORLD WAR I VINTAGE (1914) “First Lord of the Admiralty” [British Manufacture] $250 #14022

A stunning bust-length formal portrait of “Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill M.P. First Lord of the Admiralty,” by photographer Reginald Haimes, framed in an oval cameo cut-out within a full-color Union Jack. “Men of the Moment ” appears in a plaque along the lower portion of the card [8 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄4 inches].

The condition is excellent, the verso is unmarked.

“Ministre de la Marine” [French Manufacture] $110 #17031

Sepia-toned head and shoulder-length formal portrait by Elliott & Fry of “Winston Churchill – Ministre de la Marine.”

Printed on thin card stock, this postcard [8 3⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 inches] is in very good condition, save for fractional loss at the lower left corner. The verso is unmarked.

Winston Churchill arrived in New York on December 11, 1931, for an extended lecture tour in support of the publication on November 11 of the final volume of his WORLD CRISIS. On the 13th of December, Churchill was struck by a car on Fifth Avenue while on his way to the home of financier Bernard Baruch.

His tour would not resume until January 28, 1932, once he had recuperated fully from his injuries. During the ensuing month of February, Churchill spoke in Brooklyn, Hartford, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, NYC, Rochester, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Concord, Boston and Ann Arbor. He departed the U.S. on March 11, aboard the Majestic.

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1930

MY EARLY LIFE

Arguably Winston Churchill’s most entertaining book, a memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood – in fact, the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. Published in the U.S. under the title A ROVING COMMISSION. The work is available today in a variety of endlessly re-issued editions. True first editions, however, remain quite rare.

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CABINET CARDS ~ ~VINTAGE WINSTON CHURCHILL’S MOTHER LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (circa 1884-85)

$195 #18907

This handsome sepia-toned card is in very good condition and quite rare thus [6 1⁄4 x 4 inches].

The head and shoulders-length image is by H.S. Mendelssohn, whose elaborately printed credit appears on the verso: 14 Pembridge Crescent, Notting Hill Gate W., London, High Art Photographer to her Majesty, The Queen and Royal Family.

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First English Edition Inscribed to Churchill’s Daughter Diana (Cohen A91.1.b) (Woods A37a.1)

Please Inquire for Price #14567

Nothing in the realm of Churchillian first editions is more precious than a book inscribed by Winston Churchill to a member of his immediate family. Here is one such prize, a First English edition of Churchill’s marvelous memoir, SIGNED, dated and inscribed on the front free endpaper to his eldest daughter: “Diana from Papa Oct 25 1930,” five days after publication. This is a good copy of the less common First State/Second Binding (per Cohen) in rough pink cloth, with the variant five-line title block on the cover. The cloth is worn, the spine chipped and faded, the contents less than perfect, but intact. The book is preserved in a stunning, purpose-built, quarterburgundy leather clamshell solander.

$195 #18664

This striking sepia-toned card [8 1⁄4 x 4 inches] is in very good condition. The image captures Lady Randolph wearing the pearl and turquoise Insignia of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, which was conferred upon her

by Queen Victoria in 1885. The ceremony marked the 31-year-old Jennie Churchill’s first face-to-face meeting with the Queen. “Lady Randolph (an American) is very handsome,” Queen Victoria later noted in her journal, “and very dark.”

DIANA CHURCHILL (SANDYS) was born July 11, 1909. She married twice, the second time on September 16, 1935, to the Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys, with whom she had three children.

She died October 20, 1963.

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1931

INDIA

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~TYPED LETTER SIGNED~

AS CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

This slender compilation of speeches about Gandhi and “Our Duty in India” was simultaneously published in especially handsome hardcover and softcover editions, both much prized today by collectors.

(1927)

$7,500 #16299

First English Softcover Edition (First Printing) (Cohen A92.1.c) (Woods A38)

$2,000 #14268

A superb copy in astonishing condition. We hesitate to describe any softcover volume this old as mint but aside from a trifling hint of spine fade and a touch of faint foxing to the fore-edges, it is very nearly that. Preserved in a handsome burgundy cloth slipcase.

First English Softcover Edition (Second Printing) (Cohen A92.1.e) (Woods A38)

$650 #14275

A beautiful copy in similarly fine condition, also preserved in a handsome burgundy cloth slipcase.

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terrific single-page letter written as Chancellor of the Exchequer on Treasury Chambers embossed letterhead, dated 4th November 1927, to The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour: My dear Arthur, I cannot help repeating what I have said orally and literally at least a half dozen times, that I hold you committed in good faith to the decision taken by the Cabinet that the principle of equal thirds was not to be conceded during the passage of your Bill. I could not possibly agree to it, nor would Neville [Chamberlain] from whom I have had a very strong letter. I beg you to stick to your guns and to the arrangement which was made between us and endorsed by the Cabinet. [Angrily SIGNED in ink, all in Churchill’s hand]: Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill.

The letter [9 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄4 inches] is in very good condition, with paper clip shadows and multiple file pinholes at the upper left corner.

Marvelous as it is in tone, the letter’s significance is enhanced by its early reference to Churchill’s thencabinet colleague as Minister of Health and future nemesis as Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.

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THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

1932

A terrific anthology of Churchill essays and magazine articles from the 1920s and early-1930s on a wide variety of subjects. Issued in the U.S. under the title AMID THESE STORMS.

SIGNED First Odhams Press

Reprint Edition in Dust Jacket (1947)

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LETTER SIGNED ~ ~TYPED 11 DAYS AFTER CHURCHILL’S

NEAR-FATAL NYC TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

“…I have now definitely sold the special article on my accident...”

(1931)

(Cohen A95.5.a) (Woods A39a)

$8,500 #19479

$5,500 #18966

Written on Waldorf-Astoria letterhead, dated December 24, 1931, to Than von Ranck, an editor at William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal American:

A handsome copy in an unclipped dust jacket, inscribed, SIGNED and dated in ink on the title page: “To Elizabeth from Winston S. Churchill, 1949.”

The recipient was ELIZABETH NAVARRO, whose bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Navarro worked as a nurse to Churchill’s intimate friend and financial advisor, Bernard Baruch, and later became Baruch’s companion and hostess after the death of his wife. This is the ‘Deluxe’ binding of the Odhams edition, in very good condition, save for an unfortunate tear in the cloth at the center of the front hinge that has punched a pair of tiny pinholes into the first 25 inner page edges of the book. Else fine.

I have to let you know that I have now definitely sold the special article on my accident, and this matter must be considered closed. I shall hope to see you early next week upon the question of a series of articles. I ought, however, to tell you that I am in treaty for a series of 12, which, of course, would suit me much better than the 6 which were mentioned tentatively in our discussion. I shall be well enough to see you early in the week, when we can talk things over. Yours truly, Winston S. Churchill.

The letter [10 1⁄2 x 8 inches], is in excellent condition, with the standard fold marks, a faint paperclip shadow at the upper left corner and a minute chip at the upper right.

Churchill’s infamous New York traffic accident occurred on the evening of December 13, 1931, after Churchill took a taxi to his friend Bernard Baruch’s Fifth Avenue apartment for an after-dinner get-together. Annoyed that he and his driver could not find the address, Churchill stepped out into the two-way Fifth Avenue traffic, looked left, and was struck by a passing car on his right. His convalescence would last nearly two months. Yet, within less than two weeks of the accident, Churchill already was at work wringing literary profit from it, as this letter eloquently attests.

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MARLBOROUGH: HIS LIFE AND TIMES

1933-38

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LETTER SIGNED ~ ~TYPED TO “MRS. P.”

Churchill’s majestic biography of the first Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill; soldier, statesmen, hard-headed Churchillian ancestor. Initially published in England as a lush four-volume set and then as a somewhat less deluxe six-volume set in the U.S.

“…do not worry about anything.”

(1936)

$6,500 #19478

SIGNED

Leatherbound First English Edition Set (Cohen A97.1.a) (Woods A40a)

$10,000 #18829

INSCRIBED, SIGNED and dated in the month of publication on the front free endpaper of Volume 1 to: “H.A.L. Fisher from Winston S. Churchill, Oct. 1933.” Superbly rebound by The Chelsea Bindery in golden-brown Morocco leather, gilt-stamped with the Marlborough crest on the upper boards, gilt-lettered on the spines in six compartments with raised bands and a reiterated rampant lion motif, all edges gilt. A magnificent leatherbound set.

HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS FISHER (1865-1940) was an English historian, a revered Oxford don and educator, and a Liberal politician, who served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George’s 1916 to 1922 coalition government, in which Churchill also served.

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t the onset of his “Wilderness Years,” in 1930, Winston Churchill hired Mrs. Violet Pearman as his first resident secretary, based almost exclusively by his side at Chartwell. “Mrs. P.” quickly became indispensable to Churchill, sharing these tumultuous years as intimately as anyone; taking down just about every word of Churchill’s letters, articles and book-length literary endeavors by hand herself. In this very personal letter, dated March 23, 1936, on Chartwell letterhead, Churchill anxiously offers to pay for Mrs. P.’s medical expenses resulting from an accident.

Dear Mrs. Pearman, You must certainly stay in bed until you are fit to be ex-rayed, and then follow the Doctor’s orders. Let me know when you are able to do any typing ... But get well as soon as you can, and do not worry about anything. If you are not insured I will pay for any necessary scientific treatment that is required, and your salary of course will continue during this illness. I am so sorry you have had this accident.

The letter is signed, as Churchill only signed for intimates, with his initials: “Yours sincerely, WC.” It is in very good condition, with light foxing and some creasing [10 x 8 inches]. A very rare window into Churchill’s private working world during his darkest yet most productive period.

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CHURCHILL STYLE

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

1937

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TYPED “MEMORANDUM” ~ ~SUMMARY OF A RECENT INTERVIEW

Penetrating profiles of twenty-one political and literary luminaries. An utter delight to read; beautifully written, brutally opinionated (Hitler comes off just a bit better than Shaw).

The ensuing “Revised” edition (and most future reprints) added four new profiles: Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL

BY A.J. CUMMINGS

(1936) $750 #3870

Salesman’s Sample Copy of the First English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A105.1.a) (Woods A43a)

$2,500 #14407

A one-of-a-kind oddity, probably a salesman’s sample copy of the First English edition. The text is that of the First Edition, without the later added four profiles, the binding conforms to Churchill bibliographer Ronald Cohen’s description of the London Times Book Club issue for the later “Revised” edition (smooth navy cloth crudely blocked “Great Contem-poraries” [hyphenated] on the spine, with the author’s full name, and “Butterworth” at the foot of the spine), but there is no Times Book Club stamp on the rear pastedown, as called for. The dust jacket resembles that of the First English edition but it has been trimmed to fit the shorter dimensions of this volume.

The jacket is in excellent condition; a rich, bright orange, with virtually no chipping or fading. The book itself is mint. There is not another like it.

First American Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A105.2.a) (Woods A43ab)

$1,150 #19480

A very good copy, in the rare dust jacket, which is unclipped and extraordinarily bright, lightly edge-chipped, with fractional losses at the lower left corner of the front face and along the upper left edge of the rear face, else fine. The book is virtually mint, save for a front hinge that is just beginning to give. The contents are otherwise pristine.

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his is the original five-page typescript summary of a marvelously revealing interview with Winston Churchill conducted by newspaperman A.J. Cummings of The News Chronicle on 26th May, 1936, in the midst of Churchill’s “Wilderness Years,” as Hitler’s shadow was beginning to lengthen across Europe: I had a long talk with Churchill. Speaking as he said, on the dead level for private guidance, he was full and candid. It is obvious that he views the whole situation in Europe with grave alarm ... but says he is annoyed at the suggestion that he has been waiting on the doorstep for a job.

ARTHUR [A.J.] CUMMINGS was the legendary Political Editor of the Liberal-leaning News Chronicle.

His “Memorandum” is addressed to: “Mr. Barry ” – [Later Sir] Gerald Barry – another distinguished career journalist, who had just become Managing Editor of The News Chronicle in 1936, after moving from The Weekend Review, which he had founded – and to their boss, Sir Walter Layton, Chairman of The News Chronicle from 1930-1950. Layton had been Churchill’s statistical officer at the Ministry of Munitions during World War I and would run the Joint War Production staff from 1942-1943.

The typescript [9 1⁄2 x 7 1⁄4 inch sheets] is in very good condition.

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1938

ARMS AND THE COVENANT

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TYPED LETTER SIGNED ~ ~FRAMED

BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Churchill’s initial alarms against Hitler and the Nazis are collected here in forty-one eloquent pre-war speeches, 1936-1938, edited by his son Randolph. Published in the U.S. under the title WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT. Only reprinted once thereafter.

“…thanks for Winston Churchill’s book.”

(1938)

$11,500 #18906

First English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A 107.1) (Woods A44a)

$2,500 #11755

A very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which has lightly browned along the edges, more severely so along the spine, but otherwise maintains its pale blue luster. The upper dust jacket edge is chipped here and there, with fractional loss at the spine head and along the upper spine fold.

Internally, the dark blue cloth boards are uniquely fresh and unfaded, even along the notoriously problematic spine. There is faint scattered foxing and very light toning to the prelims, with a discreet owner initial ink stamp on the front free endpaper, else fine.

Letter: 8 1⁄2 x 6 1⁄2 inches • Framed: 23 1⁄2 x 14 1⁄2

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marvelously reverberant and unusually intimate letter on White House letterhead, dated June 25, 1938, three years before Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt’s first formal meeting, written to Roosevelt’s uncle, Frederic Delano (1863-1953), a former railroad president and philanthropist, whose pioneering urban planning work as Chairman of Chicago’s “Commercial Club” directly influenced his nephew’s New Deal philosophy: Dear Uncle Fred – Ever so many thanks for Winston Churchill’s book. It will make great reading on the trip.

I do wish you could be with us. Affectionately, FDR. The book was Arms and the Covenant, Churchill’s devastatingly prophetic collection of speeches on the Nazi menace, which was published in the United Kingdom on June 24, though copies were available as early as June 9, according to the Cohen bibliography. Imagine the effect these speeches had on FDR, as he read them all in one volume.

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The letter has been very handsomely framed, matted in a stepped, multi-ply, linen-backed mat with vintage postcards of Roosevelt and Churchill; the latter postcard bearing Churchill’s broadcast message to Roosevelt in February 1941: “Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

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CHURCHILL STYLE

1939

STEP BY STEP

Chilling anthology of Churchill’s prescient newspaper pieces for the Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph about the rising Nazi threat, commencing in 1936 with Hitler’s reoccupation of the Rhineland, through the final months before the declaration of war in 1939.

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NOTE SIGNED ~ ~TYPED ON THE EVE OF

CZECHOSLOVAKIA’S OCCUPATION

“…uncertainties…overhang our future.”

(1939)

$12,500 #13054

A paradigmatic note written as the darkening Nazi threat that Churchill had long predicted was becoming reality.

Written on Chartwell notepaper [8 x 5 inches], dated 6th March, 1939, to Mr. Harold R. Peat, Churchill’s lecture agent in New York: I am afraid I cannot contemplate a tour at the present time. The uncertainties which prevented me last year, still overhang our future.

SIGNED

First English Edition in Dust Jacket [Association Copy] (Cohen A111.1.a) (Woods A45a)

$15,000 #18746

This precious association copy is SIGNED and inscribed in ink for Churchill’s future Secretary of State for War, Percy James Grigg: “To P.J. from Winston June 29, 1939.”

Churchill signed with his first name solely for intimates.

This is a very good copy, in the rare and extremely perishable dust jacket; unclipped, darkened a bit with age, particularly along the spine, as per usual, somewhat rubbed with edge-chipping and a few short tears, else fine. The cloth spine has browned slightly, as have a few pages of the prelims, but the contents are otherwise immaculate.

SIR PERCY JAMES GRIGG (1890-1964) was Churchill’s Secretary of State for War, beginning in 1942, for the duration of World War II. Born to a modest West Country family, Grigg had risen swiftly through the civil service ranks. Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, wrote of Grigg in his diaries: “Providence was indeed kind to me during the war to have placed P. J. Grigg at the helm of the WO...gifted with one of the quickest brains I have met ... the more one saw of him the more one realized his sterling qualities of unflinching straightness.”

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Just three days earlier, Churchill’s constituency had, for the second time, attempted to remove him as their representative in Parliament. His opposition to the Munich Agreement and to the policies of Neville Chamberlain, his party’s Prime Minister, seemed to many almost treasonous. One week later Churchill answered his critics in a speech: “I do not withdraw a single word,” he said. “I read it again only this afternoon [his fierce remarks during Parliament’s Munich debate] and was astonished to find how terribly true it had all come.”

Four days later, on March 14, German troops crossed into Czechoslovakia.

HAROLD R. PEAT, a World War I war hero, ran the Peat Lecture Bureau at 2 W. 45th Street in New York City. “His Bureau,” wrote The New Yorker in a 1942 Talk of the Town piece, “is one of the places people go when they want to engage a talented or famous person to speak at an Annual Luncheon or whatnot. Many people who can afford Thomas Mann, Andre Maurois ... Lillian Hellman ... Alice Longworth, or H.G. Wells realize that the Peat office can get them for you.”

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CHURCHILL STYLE

1941-46

THE WAR SPEECHES

Seven individual compilation volumes were published yearly, beginning in 1941, under the following titles: INTO BATTLE (1938-1940 speeches); THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE (1940-1941); THE END OF THE BEGINNING (1942); ONWARDS TO VICTORY (1943); THE DAWN OF LIBERATION (1944); VICTORY (1945); and SECRET SESSION SPEECHES (Various Dates).

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ADMITTANCE CARD ~ ~HOUSE OF COMMONS (1944) $450 #18057

A stately original embossed Admittance Card to The Dominions’ Gallery (Front Row) of the House of Commons, Thursday, 17th Feb, 1944, for Major H.M. Amstutz.

An eloquent souvenir of the war in mint condition, here matted and elegantly framed in white.

Card: 3 1⁄2 x 4 3⁄4 inches • Framed: 7 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄4 inches

OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S BIG TRIP ~ ~PICTURES AND QUOTATIONS FROM HIS SPEECHES (1942)

First English Edition Set Complete in Seven Volumes with Dust Jackets (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66-A114)

$2,500 #18747

This is a very good complete set, all seven volumes in unclipped dust jackets, save for The End of the Beginning jacket, which is price-clipped. The books are fresh, clean, tight and bright, the dust jackets all exhibit very modest wear. For a complete detailed description, please see this item on our website. The set is preserved in a very handsome, purpose-built slipcase of burgundy cloth.

$175 #19052

This very handsomely produced 8-page miniature softcover volume of excerpts from Churchill’s speeches in North America delivered on December 26 and 30, 1941 to the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament, respectively, is wonderfully illustrated with many marvelous black and white photographs. A fragile little volume [4 1⁄4 x 3 1⁄4 inches], in very good condition, this copy also has preserved its original belly band with the printed quote: “Only our own follies can deprive us of victory.” Very rarely seen thus.

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1948-53

The best-selling six-volume history that helped gain Churchill a Nobel Prize for literature.

Published first in the U.S., the ensuing English edition contained numerous corrections and even a few additional maps. It is therefore considered more definitive, though today the American edition is rarer.

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~ ORIGINAL SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPH ~ SIGNED BY CHURCHILL AND “MONTY” (1944)

$13,500 #18571

First English Edition Set In Dust Jackets (Cohen A240.4[I-VI].a) (Woods A123ba)

$1,000 #19516

A very good set in unclipped dust jackets that have darkened unevenly along the spines but retain virtually unfaded spine type. For a complete, detailed description, please visit our website.

THE HINGE OF FATE (1951) SIGNED

Leatherbound First English Edition Presented to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (Cohen A240.4[IV].a) (Woods A123ba)

$4,500 #19509

This handsome leatherbound copy of The Hinge of Fate (Volume IV in Churchill’s Second World War memoirs) was presented by Churchill to the screen star Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., whose elaborate bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown.

Churchill signed the book as he only signed to intimates, with his initials: “WC ” on the half-title.

Fairbanks trained commando units and developed diversionary tactics for Britain’s Combined Operations Command using dummies, phony wireless chatter and smokescreen recordings. He participated in the planning of all COC operations, including the 1942 Dieppe Raid. His relationship with Churchill during his wartime service in England was close and personal.

The book is in very good condition, rebound in full navy blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, all edges gilt, the spine gilt tooled and lettered in six compartments with raised bands.

The spine is a bit darkened with age, the spine points are just a trifle roughed, the contents are fine. A rather special volume.

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This one-of-a-kind wartime snapshot of Winston Churchill and General Bernard Law Montgomery is SIGNED by both in ink on the image. The photograph was taken during Churchill’s second visit to the Normandy beaches on July 22, 1944, when he was driven by Montgomery across the River Orne for a surprise visit to the French city of Caen, which had just been captured by the Allies. The photograph [4 1⁄4 x 5 3⁄4 inches] is in very good condition, though the ink has faded with age.

Churchill had elevated Montgomery to the rank of Field Marshall in April 1944. As Field Marshall, Montgomery grew accustomed to signing his name with the appended abbreviation, “F.M.,” yet here, he hurriedly signed as had formerly been his habit: “B.L. Montgomery General.”

In the snapshot, Churchill and Montgomery are standing in Montgomery’s Humber (together with Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey, the Commander of the British 2nd Army). The car had been provided to Montgomery by the Humber/Hillman distributors in Cairo during Montgomery’s time there as commander of the Eighth Army, from August 1942 through 1943.

Montgomery loved the car and brought it with him to Sicily, then on to France and Germany in 1944, before ultimately taking it home to England after the war, much to the annoyance of the War Office. The car remained with him until his death.

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CHURCHILL STYLE

PAINTING AS A PASTIME

1948

Churchill’s marvelous essay celebrating his favorite hobby first appeared in the Strand magazine over two issues, in December 1921 and January 1922. It was then anthologized in Churchill’s THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES before being published on its own as this delightful little book, which has since been endlessly reissued in a variety of English and American editions.

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~ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS CARDS ~

FROM WINSTON AND CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL (circa 1950s)

These vintage unaddressed Christmas cards were found among the estate papers of a member of Churchill’s secretarial staff. Originally produced by The Soho Gallery in London and Hallmark Cards in the U.S., respectively, they are both imprinted on the inside leaf: “With Christmas Thoughts and Wishes from Winston and Clementine Churchill,” and feature a full-color reproduction of one of Churchill’s paintings tipped onto the card face. Both are in very good condition, darkened and a bit worn with age, but not use.

“Sirmione”

$350 #19443 [5 1⁄2 x 7 1⁄4 inches]

SIGNED First English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A 242.1.a) (Woods A125a)

Churchill painted this image of Lake Garda near the Northern Italian town of Sirmione during his first vacation after the war, in 1946.

$15,000 #17496

SIGNED and Inscribed with unusually informal intimacy on the front free endpaper: “To Clare with love from Winston, 1949.” The unclipped dust jacket is lightly edge-chipped, with fractional loss at the upper edge of the rear panel. The contents are fine and unfoxed. Preserved in a handsome vintage half-blue leather clamshell solander, gilt-lettered and ornamented on the spine in six compartments with gilt-tooled raised bands.

CLARE (Consuelo Frewen) SHERIDAN (1885-1970) was Winston Churchill’s first cousin and one of his favorite relations; the daughter of Lady Randolph’s sister Clara Jerome. A celebrated sculptress and travel writer, she shared avidly in Churchill’s discovery of himself as a painter and maintained a warm relationship with him even after her support for the Russian Revolution divided them politically. Her busts of her cousin Winston can be found at Blenheim Palace, Harrow School and, of course, at Chartwell.

Laid-into the book is a typed letter on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, signed by Churchill’s principal private secretary Jo Sturdee: “Dear Mrs. Sheridan, Mr. Churchill has inscribed a copy of his book, Painting as a Pastime, which he sends you with his good wishes. He has also signed the photograph of your bust of him, which you left behind at Chartwell for that purpose, the other day.”

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“View From Chartwell” $450 #19445 [7 x 5 1⁄2 inches]

Churchill famously painted this panoramic view in 1948.

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CHURCHILL STYLE

THE POSTWAR SPEECHES

1948-61

Five postwar speech compilation volumes were published, beginning with THE SINEWS OF PEACE in 1948 (late-1945-1946 speeches, including the legendary Fulton, Missouri, “Iron Curtain” speech); EUROPE UNITE in 1950 (1947-48); IN THE BALANCE in 1951 (1949-50); STEMMING THE TIDE in 1953 (1951-52); and THE UNWRITTEN ALLIANCE in 1961, the final collection of Churchill speeches, covering the years 1953-1959.

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~TYPED LETTER SIGNED ~

TO CHURCHILL’S PRINCIPAL PROOF READER “…I have now ceased my literary activities…”

(1957)

$7,500 #18967

This book appeared in England only and is perhaps the rarest of the postwar speech volumes.

First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets (Cohen A241-A273) (Woods A124-A142)

$1,650 #9757

A very good set, virtually mint, in dust jackets that exhibit very faint wear, mostly along the spines, else fine.

Europe Unite and In the Balance dust jackets are priceclipped, the remainder are not. Contents of all volumes are especially clean and unfoxed. A fine set overall.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

1956-58

Sweeping four-volume history of England, her colonies, and the language that Churchill so venerated and ennobled in his own writings. The original English edition was handsomely printed, the American edition was less so. Subsequent reissues and abridgements abound.

First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets (Cohen A267.1) (Woods A138a )

$950 #19520

This is an exceedingly handsome set in unclipped dust jackets that are unusually bright and unfaded, particularly along the spines. The contents of all volumes are fine, with red topstains well preserved. An extremely beautiful set.

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This poignant letter of farewell, dated November 16, 1957, on Hyde Park Gate letterhead, is addressed to Churchill’s principal proof reader, C.C. Wood.

My dear Wood, I am so much obliged to you for the work you have done on the last volume [of A History of the English Speaking Peoples]. As you know, I have now ceased my literary activities, and the fourth volume is therefore the last which will come before you. Pray accept my most warm thanks for what you have done over the years, which I always found to be of great assistance. I enclose a ‘bonus’ for £200 which I hope you will accept, and remain, Yours very sincerely, Winston S. Churchill.

The letter is in very good condition with standard mailing folds and a file punch. [9 x 7 inches] C.C. WOOD – as chief copy editor for publisher George G. Harrap – first worked for Winston Churchill proofreading his four-volume Marlborough biography throughout the 1930s. The abstemious Wood, whom Churchill once described as “indefatigable, interminable, intolerable,” did not endear himself to his boss by neither smoking nor drinking, and Churchill ultimately decided to do without Wood’s services for his Second World War memoirs. However, when the first English edition of The Gathering Storm was published with an embarrassing number of typographic errors, Churchill brought Wood back and stuck with him until this final farewell.

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THE AUTHENTIC REMAINS OF

CIGAR ~ ~A CHURCHILL (1952) $2,500 #19472

Discovered among the estate papers of a member of Churchill’s secretarial staff, this carefully preserved cigar butt is wrapped in a small fragment of notepaper that bears the handwritten ink notation: “Cigar smoked by Mr. Churchill on Jan. 30th 1952 at a cabinet at No.10 Downing St. the day after his return from USA.” Churchill had just landed at Southampton aboard the Queen Mary following a three-week visit to the United States, during which he had met extensively with President Truman on the subject of the Korean War, among other matters. On January 30, he briefed the House of Commons about his “AngloAmerican Conversations.” “I was led to cross the Atlantic by the conviction that ... it was important for His Majesty’s new Government to establish intimate and easy relations with the President...” he told the Commons, and “to give the impression to the American people that we rejoice in their effort to defend the cause of world freedom against Communist aggression.” Certainly Churchill’s cabinet meeting that same day must have touched on the very same subject.

The cigar butt is 3 1⁄2 -inches long and very much shows its age but is entirely intact. It is preserved in a sealed glass cigar tube (71⁄2 -inches long) together with the original handwritten note.

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