Churchill at Chartwell Catalogue 2015

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

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& UNUSUAL DUST JACK ETS

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2015 CATALOGUE . N O . XXXV

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR INSCRIBED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO “PUG” ISMAY

1948 -1953

W E L C O M E to our newest catalogue of Churchilliana. This year, we highlight the extraordinary array of expressively artful dust jackets that have wrapped Churchill’s thirty-four book-length works over the years.

We further ornament this dust jacket retrospective with a selection of utterly singular Churchillian treasures, including a previously unknown, original Churchill painting.

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As always, we continue to offer everything 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.

THE CHURCHILL FACTOR

– Chartwell Booksellers

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HOW ONE MAN MADE HISTORY

by Boris Johnson $27.95 #203323

First American & English Editions (Cohen A240.1 & .4) (Woods A2a)

$32,000 #203448

This remarkable leatherbound Presentation set, is SIGNED and Inscribed by Winston Churchill in ink on the front free endpaper to his most important military aide during World War II, Major-General Hastings “Pug” Ismay: “To Ismay from Winston S. Churchill.” Beneath this inscription, Churchill has penned one of his signature doodles of a “pug” dog. The books are all in very good condition. Volume I is the English First editions. All volumes are bound in crushed blue Morocco leather with gilt fore-edges; Volume I bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Volumes II-VI by Morrell, London. The bindings are just lightly rubbed, with variable fading. The contents are free endpapers are the original pre-printed holograph-styled presentation notes that Churchill’s staff sent out with these books: “With all good wishes from Winston S. Churchill.”

For more of LORD ISMAY’s Churchill books please see our rear inside cover.

CHURCHILL STYLE THE ART OF BEING WINSTON CHURCHILL

by Barry Singer Foreword by Michael Korda

SIGNED American Edition $24.95 #18382

WHEN LIONS ROAR THE CHURCHILLS AND THE KENNEDYS

by Thomas Maier $30.00 #203328 SIGNED copies available for $45.00

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

1898

First “Silver Library” Edition (1899) (Cohen A1.3.a) (Woods A1bb.1)

$2,500 #17861

Malakand’s edition that restored the correct text as he originally intended. Issued January 1899 in the publisher, Longmans, Green’s, low-priced “Silver Library” series,

MALAKAND

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

$3,500 #17604

A very good rebacked copy of the First State, in the mottled-green-cloth binding variant. A lengthy split in the spine cloth has been repaired and the endpapers have been replaced. A previous owner’s name is discreetly ink stamped on the front free endpaper. There is a small tear in the cloth at the head of the spine but the contents are clean and unfoxed. A bargain, expertly restored.

printing of that edition. The cloth is a robust deep red, the gilt is bright, the binding is crisp and tight, the

FRONTIERS AND WARS First English Edition (1962) (Cohen A274.2) (Woods A142/1a.2)

$125 #13388

First American Edition (1990) (Cohen A1.7) (Woods A1db)

$110 #10396

This 1990 reprint, now out-of-print, in fact constituted Malakand The text was photographically reproduced from the 1974 “Collected Works” edition. A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket, with the embossed seal of a former owner blind-stamped

books (Malakand, The River War, London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton’s March), all derived from his newspaper despatches as a war correspondent covering various colonial wars. This is a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust jacket that is a bit edgeworn, with fractional loss at

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

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1899

THE RIVER WAR

“Cheap” Abridged Edition Third [ Wartime] Printing (1941) (Cohen A2.4.c) (Woods A2d)

$2,250 #14889

The Third, and by far the rarest, printing of the socalled “Cheap” Edition, produced on February 28, 1941, according to bibliographer Ronald Cohen, despite the publisher’s printed “1940” publication date.

The unclipped dust jacket here has toned unevenly along the spine, with edge-chipping at the spine head, some faint creases and scratches front and rear and a fractional loss along the rear upper jacket edge. The book is mint, inside and out, despite having survived World War II.

Fifth Printing [Binding Variant] (1951) (Cohen A2.4.f) (Woods A2d)

$450 #14396

An astonishingly fresh copy of the pale purple-blue cloth binding variant that Cohen describes as dating to Churchill’s death in 1965. The book and dust jacket here are virtually mint, save for very faint fading to the dust jacket spine, a wide price-clipping

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

$8,500 #13763

This is a very good set; the cloth and spines clean and unfaded, with bright gilt

which is most common. An excellent example of this majestic pair, preserved in a very handsome purpose-built slipcase of recent vintage.

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SAVROLA

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RARE EARLY VINTAGE POSTCARD OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL WITH A FASCINATING MESSAGE

1916 $155 #203346

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

$2,000 #13759

blue cloth and gilt lettering are both fresh and bright, 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 cut, but this

Second American Edition (1956) (Cohen A3.7) (Woods A3ea)

$100 #15591

A very good copy of the Second American Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket that is a touch darkened with age and creased, particularly along the spine, with fractional loss at the spine head. The contents Savrola was broadcast as a one-hour teleplay on November 15, 1956, live and in color, on NBC’s Matinee Theater, starring Churchill’s daughter, Sarah. This Random House reissue no doubt emerged to coincide with the broadcast.

This handsome vintage postcard of Winston Churchill in full stride is most noteworthy for the lengthy and extraordinarily perceptive ink message written on the verso by one “A.E. Walker,” who appears to have known Churchill and his family: “This is ‘Dear Winston.’ I well remember seeing him standing on the Town Hall steps with his mother, who used the above expression. It was some years ago, when he tried to enter Parliament as M.P. for Manchester, but he was rejected. Manchester would not have him. He seemed to me to be like an overgrown school-boy, both in manner and appearance; and I do not suppose he has changed much since then. You will have heard all about his recent doings. He likes to be ‘Jack of all trades, master of none,’ and is very much like his father, the late Lord Randolph Churchill...

Best wishes, A.E. Walker, C.C.E.Q.”

The card is in very good condition, browned with age but intact and, surprisingly,

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LONDON TO LADYSMITH

(VIA PRETORIA)

1900

IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH

1900

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

$1,250 #14237

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

$1,350 #13760

This is a very good copy, with bright cover art and a spine that is neither frayed nor worn. The rear face is just a touch scuffed and very mildly darkened, and the lower corners, front and rear, are beginning to turn. The

This is a lovely copy. The cloth is fresh, the gilt titles and the spine cloth are lightly faded but not worn. The binding 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.

The title page folding map is complete but a bit wrinkled, with tiny tears (not affecting the map image) at the outer edges, where it once was misfolded. The folding map at page 366 is very lightly foxed and has been misfolded. a lovely copy of a very perishable volume.

THE BOER WAR (LEFT)

English Reprint Edition (1990)

South African Facsimile Edition (1982)

(Cohen A 292.1) (Woods A4 & 5)

(Cohen A4.4.) (Woods A4c)

$125 #203391

$100 #14533

Now, out out of print, this reissue combines London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton’s March in one volume.

A very good copy, in a price-clipped dust jacket.

A virtually mint copy, in dust jacket, of this very handsome contemporary reissue, published in South Africa in 1982, photo-reproduced from the First English edition, complete with folding maps.

A beautiful way to read this rare volume.

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American Edition (Cohen A 292.2) (Woods A4 & 5)

$95 #12904 For detailed descriptions, please see our website: www.churchillbooks.com 8

As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket.

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MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY

1903

1906

FOR FREE TRADE

MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY, as BRODRICK.

FOR FREE TRADE

First American Edition (1977)

First English Edition (Cohen A18.1) (Woods A9)

“Collector’s Binding” (Cohen 10.3.a) (Woods A6c)

Please Inquire for Price #14349

An original copy in its original card wraps, as issued.

$135 #14238

A facsimile reprint that actually constituted the First American edition of this rare work. This is a virtually mint copy, as issued, bound in cream and beige cloth, without a dust jacket, with replicas of the First English Edition’s red card covers bound in. The bookplate of a

“Library Binding”

available today.z The front cover here 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: “ ” The rear cover (which advertises ) is brighter and less clean and unfoxed. The title page is stamped: “

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(Cohen 10.3.b) (Woods A6c)

$125 #19481

The facsimile reprint was also issued in a less deluxe, Binding”. Here is a virtually mint copy.

First American Edition “Collector’s Binding” (1977) (Cohen 18.2.a) (Woods A9)

$135 #14599

A facsimile reprint that actually constituted the First American edition of this rare work. This is a virtually mint copy, as issued, bound in cream and beige cloth, without a dust jacket, with replicas of the First English Edition’s red card covers bound in.

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

1906

MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

1908

any Churchill collection.

First English Edition

First English Edition

(Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a)

(Cohen A27.1) (Woods A12aa)

$850 #200483

$950 #200392

This is a very handsome set. The titles are bright, the cloth is a rich red that has mellowed somewhat along the spines. The contents are virtually unfoxed, with ornate vintage bookplates on the front pastedowns of both volumes. The front right corner of the half-title in Volume I has been

per usual, with fractional losses at the spine head. The and photographs present, though there are some loosening pages. There is very light, scattered foxing throughout, largely limited to the upper page edges, as well as moderate toning to the front free endpaper. Altogether, a better than average example of this handsome book.

“New” English One-Volume Edition (1952) (Cohen A17.5) (Woods A8c)

$350 #201806

Third English Edition (1962) (Cohen A27.9) (Woods A12c)

This one-volume reprint is an entirely reset unabridged Churchill’s two-volume original into a single book. It also contains a new Introduction by the author, previously unpublished correspondence, and a new appendix. This is a very good copy in a very handsome dust jacket; virtually mint, save for a hint of edgewear. The contents are

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$60 #17916

The rare Holland Press reprint published in London in 1962, here in a price-clipped dust jacket that is very lightly edge-chipped. The boards are mildly cocked on the front free endpaper.

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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.

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

1910

Six speeches from the 1910 General Election rebuking the Tories for their rejection of “The People’s Budget.” Originally published in simultaneous hardcover 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.

First English Softcover Edition (Cohen A31.2.b) (Woods A16ab)

First English Edition

$4,500 #14417

(Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a)

A very good copy of the Second State of the First English edition (per Cohen). The condition is very good, given that these softcover volumes were printed on cheap, acidic paper that deteriorated quickly. The front cover here is missing a quarter of an inch or less at the upper right corner and the rear cover has loss of one-inch square at the lower right corner. The color of the covers is unusually bright and the spine is almost entirely intact and supple. The pages are browned, but less than usual. Some are chipped, with edge and corner losses, but this is a very good copy of an extremely perishable rarity. It is preserved here in a blue cloth clamshell box with a leather spine label.

$1,450 #16318

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.

Second Edition (1970)

American Reprint Edition (2004) (Cohen A29) (Woods A15)

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$75 #203425

English Issue

This is a very attractive, recent, privately produced reprint by D.N. Goodchild of Philadelphia. The pictorial dust jacket is laminated, the binding is burgundy leatherette over paper-covered boards, with a red ribbon marker, the text is entirely reset and the contents are fine. A very nice way to read this seminal and not often reprinted work.

(Cohen A31.9) (Woods A16bb)

$110 #17349

A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

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American Issue (Cohen A31.10) (Woods A16bb)

$95 #201093

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A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

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THE WORLD CRISIS

1923-31

English Macmillan Reprint Edition (1941 & 1944) (Cohen A69.12.a/.13/.14.a) (Woods A31ab)

$2,500 #14905

A very good set of Macmillan’s three-volume wartime reprint edition, in the very rare dust jackets. Volume 2 is a Second Impression. Text for the main volume was taken from the First Abridged edition, with an additional chapter on the Battle of the Marne added. The complete texts of the The Aftermath and , are here, as issued individually by Macmillan.

Volume I (1911-1914) and Volume II (1915) Volume III (1916-1918) Volume IV (“The Aftermath 1918-1928”) Volume V ( “The Unknown War” in the and “The Eastern Front” ).

SIGNED First English Edition Set (Mixed) (Cohen A69.2) (Woods A31ab)

$10,000 #14376

very rare, correct, original dust jackets (the sixth book is wrapped in a replica dust jacket). Volume 1 (Book 1) is SIGNED and Inscribed in ink on the second front free endpaper: “ ” This book is a Second Impression of the First Edition in the correct

Second American Edition [Unabridged] (1963-1964) (Cohen A69.16) (Woods A31ae)

$850 #15651

books are all First Edition, First Impression.

WILLIAM GEORGE TYRRELL (1866-1947) was Sir Edward Grey’s Private Secretary (1907-1915), Assistant and Permanent Under-Secretary (1925-1928). He was Britain’s Ambassador in Paris from 1928-1934.

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THE ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION

TOBACCO CARDS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

A COMPLETE SET OF JOHN PLAYER “STRAIGHT LINE CARICATURES”

BY DOUGLAS JERROLD

THE RT. HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL 1923

1926 $450 #203477

First English Edition (Cohen B30.1) (Woods B10)

$1,250 #10985

This highly sought after regimental history features an extensive nine-page introduction

by Winston Churchill who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was closely involved with the creation of the division and its World War I service in France. This is a very good copy in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket, unclipped, with age-darkened spine and a slightly darkened face. The jacket is lightly edge-chipped with fractional loss at the head and

A vivid assemblage of spot-on Cubist caricatures representing Churchill’s greatest Lloyd George, to Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw and, of course, Churchill himself. The artist was cartoonist Alick P. F. Ritchie (1868-1938). This is a

with light foxing to the fore-edges and prelims. A true rarity.

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1930

MY EARLY LIFE

1931

INDIA

A ROVING COMMISSION

First English Hardcover Edition (Cohen A92.1.a) (Woods A38)

First English Edition

$5,000 #14856

(Cohen A91.1.a) (Woods A37a)

A very good copy of the exceedingly rare hardcover First Edition, without dust jacket.

The orange cloth has darkened but the black

$2,000 #202625

This is a beautiful copy of the First Binding/First State of the First English edition (per Cohen), in the prescribed rough pink cloth that is here vividly bright. The spine is faded - as per usual with this book - but is otherwise strikingly fresh and unworn, which is rare. The binding is tight and the corners

corners sharp. The contents are clean and unfoxed. A very rare book.

uncut and the book generally appears never to have been read. A very handsome copy.

First American Edition (Cohen A91.2.a)(Woods A37b)

$1,250 #14267

A very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which is unclipped but well-faded and worn, with creasing and edge-chipping along the upper and lower edges of the front face, fractional loss at the upper corner of the rear face, and additional loss to the head and tail of the spine.

First American Deluxe Limited Edition (1990) (Cohen A92.2b) (Woods A38a)

$250 #14671

Issued by the the International Churchill Society’s publishing arm, this contemporary replica edition is now out of print. Here is a mint copy of the dust jacketed Deluxe Limited Edition, number 26 of 100 copies that were especially bound in leather, all edges gilt.

text. The cloth is only nominally faded across the front and rear faces but more so along the spine, as per usual.

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THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

1932

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VINTAGE PROMOTIONAL POSTCARD OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL 1933 $150 #203252

First English Edition

First American Edition

(Cohen A95.1.a) (Woods A39a)

(Cohen A95.2) (Woods A39b)

$3,500 #14392

$1,450 #202821

A very good copy, in the handsome and extraordinarily rare dust jacket, which has darkened with age but is otherwise in exceptional condition, with an inch of loss at the right corner of the spine head, two tiny edge-chips on the front face and one on the rear, as well as a pinhole of loss along the front spine fold. The book is fresh, with a faint tear in the cloth at the spine head. The gilt lettering is bright.

A very good copy of the First American edition, in the rare dust jacket, which is here unclipped but shelfworn and edge-chipped, loss of approximately one-inch across the spine head of the jacket and a smaller loss along the lower edge. The front face has fractional losses along the upper edge, is in very good condition.

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This handsome promotional postcard features a striking portrait of Winston Churchill at his desk, with a printed signature. The verso contains a printed holograph-styled message: Jan. 4th 1933 Six of the World’s greatest stories re-told by Winston Churchill begin next Sunday Jan. 8th in the News of the World – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “Count of Monte Cristo,” “Moonstone,” “Ben Hur,” ”Tess of the D’Urbervilles” & the “Tale of Two Cities.”

The card is postmarked and is hand addressed in ink. The frontis photograph is lightly scratched and pitted and the verso has darkened somewhat with age but the condition is very good overall.

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MARLBOROUGH:

HIS LIFE AND TIMES

1933-38

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

1937

First English Edition First English Edition

(Cohen A97.2[I-IV].a) (Woods A40aa)

$2,750 #201781

(Cohen A105.1.a) (Woods A43a)

$3,500 #202892

A very good set, in the very rare dust jackets, which are lightly edge-chipped and modestly darkened with age, but very attractive. Volumes I and IV are each neatly price-clipped, but correct.

A very good copy in the rare and especially handsome dust jacket, which is unclipped, but worn along the upper edges, front and rear, as well as at the spine head, with some light scratches to the front face. The jacket has darkened with age, but maintains its marvelous orange color. The book itself is a small rub in the front free endpaper alongside an inked notation of the book’s (incorrect) Woods biblio number:

First American Edition

pers, front and rear. Still, an extremely attractive copy overall.

(Cohen A97.4[I-VI].a (Woods A40b)

$2,000 #13765

STRAND MAGAZINE: “THE TRUTH ABOUT MYSELF”

BY WINSTON S. CHURCHILL 1936 (C485) (C285)

$235 #200977

First appearance of this brilliant autobiographical essay, written by Churchill to contrast with his own earlier Strand magazine essay entitled, “The Truth

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photographs. This is a very good copy, with creases across the marvelous cover illustration, the contents a bit shelfworn and mildewy, with marginal internal stains to the Churchill essay pages.

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ARMS AND THE COVENANT

1938

1939

STEP BY STEP

Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT.

First English Edition (Cohen A107.1) (Woods A44a)

$2,500 #18003

A very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which chipped, with rubbing along the age-darkened spine and fractional losses at the spine head and tail, as well as the upper right corner tip of the front face. There is a closed tear along the front upper jacket hinge and some faint stains. The book is in virtually mint condition, the blue cloth fresh and unfaded, even along the notoriously problematic spine, with the familiar

First English Edition (Cohen A111.1.a) (Woods A45a)

$750 #202901

A very good copy, in the rare dust jacket, which is price-clipped but less shelfworn than is common with this especially perishable jacket; still darkened with age (as per usual) and edge-chipped, with fractional losses at the spine head and tail, and a stain at the upper left corner of the title block. The book is in very good condition, the green cloth bright, the binding tight, the vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Laid-in is the book’s original 1963 invoice from the London rare book dealer, Charles J. Sawyer.

WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT

First American Edition

First American Edition

$550 #202597

(Cohen A 107.2.a) (Woods A44b)

$1,500 #203435

A very good copy, in the very striking dust jacket, which is unclipped but with two inches of loss along the upper right front jacket edge and another inch of loss at the left front edge, wrapping around to the spine head. The light tanning to the page edges.

(Cohen A111.2) (Woods A45b)

A very good copy, in the rare dust jacket, which is unclipped and intact, with good color, mildly faded along the spine. There is a black stain line close to the spine fold on the upper front face and a white stain line along the inner spine edge, as well as multiple closed tears and creases, particularly along the lower edge of the rear face, but overall the jacket is well preserved. The contents the upper edge of the rear endpaper. A very nice copy.

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TYPED LETTER SIGNED

BY WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ADMIRALTY LETTERHEAD

1940 $8,500 #13000

Written just four months after Churchill’s return to government as First Lord of the Admiralty and four months before he would replace Chamberlain as Prime Minister. The letter, dated January, 1940, on Admiralty letterhead (7 1 4 x 9 1 4 inches), is addressed to Arthur Paul Boissier, the Headmaster of Harrow School, Churchill’s alma mater: Dear Mr. Boissier, [in ink, in Churchill’s hand] I am most grateful for your kind letter of greetings. It is good to receive such a message of encouragement from Harrow. With all good wishes to you and to the School for continued success, [All in Churchill’s hand:] Believe me, yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill

The letter is in excellent condition, with the standard fold marks. Nine months later, during the Blitz of September 1940, Harrow School was hit by incendiary bombs. In a single night some three hundred bombs fell among the buildings or in the grounds, though this was apparently not by intent. German bombers involved in a raid over London had dumped the remainder of their row. It was Churchill’s private secretary, John Colville (another Harrow alumnus), who told him of the tragedy. Until that moment, Churchill had never mentioned Harrow to Colville, “except,” according to Colville, “with dislike.”

Boissier had, in fact, written repeatedly inviting Churchill to visit Harrow, to no avail. Now, however, Churchill observed to Colville that Harrow was “courageous to remain on the Hill and not to emigrate to more peaceful pastures.” On December 18, 1940 Churchill did visit Harrow and, as Colville later noted, “thoroughly enjoyed himself.” Old Harrow songs were sung, as ARTHUR PAUL BOISSIER (1881-1953) was Headmaster of Harrow School from 1939-1942.

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THE WAR SPEECHES

1941-46

INTO BATTLE THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE THE END OF THE BEGINNING ONWARDS TO VICTORY THE DAWN OF LIBERATION VICTORY and SECRET SESSION SPEECHES

First English Editions (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66- A114)

$1,850 #18099

First American Editions (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66- A114)

$1,650 #202077

A complete set of the rarer American editions in their extremely handsome dust jackets, which are all in very good condition, exhibiting varying degrees of wear.

Preserved in a purpose-built burgundy cloth slipcase.

A very good complete set, in dust jackets that predominantly are price-clipped but otherwise overall, preserved in a purpose-built burgundy cloth slipcase.

The “Definitive” Edition 1951-1952 First English Edition (Cohen A263.1[I-III].a) (Woods A136a)

$1,750 #200477

A very good set, in dust jackets that are unclipped and intact but age-darkened, particularly along the spines. The spine of Volume III is also creased at the tail. The books are in exceptional condition, the bindings crisp and tight, the greatly the beautiful design of this edition. The

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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 considered more definitive, though the American edition is rarer.

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“LET US GO FORWARD TOGETHER” FRAMED ORIGINAL BRITISH WW II PROPAGANDA POSTER 1941 $2,500 #8084

First American Edition (Cohen A240.3[I-VI]) (Woods A123aa)

$1,000 #202973

A very good set in dust jackets, here preserved in the publisher’s rarely-seen original wooden case. The dust jackets all have the correct $6.00 prices on their front flaps, with the exception of Volume 1, which is price-clipped, but correct.

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

$1,200 #202800

A very good set, in unclipped dust jackets that are exceedingly fresh, including along the notoriously fade-prone spines. A rather special set.

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A very rare original of this historic, much-reproduced poster, as issued (22 1⁄2 x 14 1⁄2 inches) printed by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office on very cheap, thin, wartime newsprint stock. This example has survived admirably, though it clearly shows its age, with four folding creases as per usual. Matted in a linen-faced mat and superbly framed (28 x 38 inches overall).

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

PAINTING AS A PASTIME

1948

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AN ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING BY

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Strand

“LAKE LOUISE, CANADA” 1929

THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

Please Inquire for Price #202816

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

$15,000 #17496 A very good copy SIGNED and Inscribed with unusually affectionate intimacy in ink on the front free endpaper: The unclipped dust jacket is lightly edge-chipped with fractional loss at the upper edge unfoxed. The book is preserved in a handsome vintage half-blue leather clamshell solander.

Laid-into the book is a typed letter on notepaper, signed by Churchill’s Principal Private Secretary Jo Sturdee: “ ” his favorite relations. An artist herself, she shared avidly in her cousin’s discovery of himself as a painter.

First American Edition (1950) (Cohen A242.3) (Woods A125b)

$80 #202828 A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn with fractional losses at the spine head name in ink on the front free endpaper.

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This recently rediscovered oil painting is a damaged original, painted by Winston Churchill in tice. It strongly resembles two others that he painted on site at Lake Louise, Canada, in 1929 during his cross-country tour of North America in the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack, and his nephew Johnny. Both of those paintings appear in the catalogue raisonné, Sir Win , by David Coombs and Minnie Churchill. The painting comes to Chartwell Booksellers direct from William Murray, the son of Detective Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill’s bodyguard from 1950 until Churchill’s death in 1965, and the man entrusted with setting up (and taking down) Winston Churchill’s easel and painting implements wherever in the world Churchill happened to be. Mr. Murray found the painting recently and remembered his father bringing it home many years before and showing it to the family, after which it disappeared. It is Mr. Murray’s understanding that the painting had been damaged somehow in the studio at Chartwell and had been set aside for disposal. Detective Murray asked if he could keep it and “permission was given.” David Coombs, our foremost authority on Churchill the painter, has authenticated this painting for us.

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

THE POSTWAR SPEECHES

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

1948-61 THE SINEWS OF

PEACE EUROPE UNITE STEMMING THE TIDE ALLIANCE

IN THE BALANCE THE UNWRITTEN

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FRAMED ORIGINAL ADMISSION CARD TO THE PRESS GALLERY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES 1952 $950 #201922

First English Editions (Cohen A241-A273) (Woods A124-A142) $1,850 #19967 A very good set, in dust jackets that exhibit very faint wear, mostly along the spines.

This original admission card to the Press Gallery for Winston Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress as Prime Minister on January 17, 1952, is here framed with an original press photograph of the occasion. The card measures 3 x 4 inches. The photograph (7 3 4 x 9 1 4 ) is matted with its typed paper caption:

First American Editions (Cohen A241-A264) (Woods A124-A137) $850 #15385 A very good set of the four postwar speech volumes that were published in America.

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“Prime Minster Winston Churchill speaks to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber Jan. 17. Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet Officers are seated in foreground. Press (above clock) and public

Gorgeously framed in a golden metalic face (15 1 2 x 22 inches overall).

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

1956-58

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THE LAST LION

BY WILLIAM MANCHESTER & PAUL REID

SIGNED FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS 1983/1988/2012 First English Edition (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)

$775 #202351

A very good set, in unclipped dust jackets that are nominally edge-chipped and have darkened a bit with age along the spines particularly. The red topstains have faded

The Chartwell Edition (Cohen A267.2) (Woods 138d)

$950 #18155

Published simultaneously with the First English edition but sold by subscription only, this Chartwell Edition constituted Here is a virtually mint example, still in the original, rarely seen, plasticine dust wrappers. The four volumes are richly bound in blue cloth with red leather spine labels. The text, printed on high grade paper, is, of course, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. The spine labels are still fresh here, the gilt is bright, the contents clean, tight, and unfoxed. A brilliant set.

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(Za464a, b & c) (R375)

$1,500 #203488

A complete set of the three First American editions of this monumental work, in unclipped dust jackets. Volume 1 is SIGNED in ink on the front free endpaper: “ , ” Volume 2 is SIGNED in ink on the half-title: “William Manchester.” Volume 3 is SIGNED in ink on the title page: “ ” The dust jackets, the books and the contents are all virtually mint. Extravagantly rare thus.

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THE WAR SPEECHES INSCRIBED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO “PUG” ISMAY

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

“To Sir Hastings Ismay (commonly called ‘The Pug’) from Winston S. Churchill. Christmas 1942”

First English Editions (Cohen A240.4 & 5[I-VI].a) (Woods A123ba)

$30,000 #203499

1941-1951 This extraordinary leatherbound Presentation set, is SIGNED and Inscribed

by Winston Churchill in ink on the front free endpaper of the second volume, The Unrelenting Struggle, to Churchill’s most important military aide during World War II, Major-General Hastings “Pug” Ismay: “To Sir Hastings Ismay (commonly called ‘The Pug’) from Winston S. Churchill. Christmas 1942.”

HASTINGS ISMAY (1887-1965) was appointed Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1938. When Churchill became Prime Minister he chose Ismay as his chief staff officer. According to John Colville, “Churchill owed more, and admitted that he owed more” to Ismay “than to anybody else, military or civilian, in the whole of the war.” Ismay’s name appears in all volumes of this work.

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Also present, in addition to the seven war speech volumes, are two postwar speech compilations, The Sinews of Peace and In the Balance. The books are all First Impression First English editions, with the exception of INTO BATTLE, which is a later Impression, in very good condition, each uniformly rebound in crushed blue Morocco leather with gilt fore-edges Volumes I-IV bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Volumes V-VIII by Truslove & Hanson of Sloane Street. The bindings are very lightly rubbed and/or scratched, with variable fading to all, and significant spotting to the leather of Volume VII, The Secret Session Speeches. The contents are fine, with light toning to some page edges.

For more of LORD ISMAY’s Churchill books please see our rear inside cover.

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FRAMED WINSTON CHURCHILL PORTRAIT IN WATCH PARTS 1971 $1,000 #203320

Wonderful curiosity: a caricature of Winston Churchill constructed entirely from small watch parts. The likeness is uncanny; as good as any that we have seen fully drawn. The piece is signed and dated, “ ,� and is pleasingly framed in gold leaf (9 x 8 inches). There was a Burgess Galleries in Cornwall, Great Britain, that specialized in art pieces made from watch parts. More than that, we do not know.

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