Churchill at Chartwell 2012 Catalogue

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

WI N STON CH U RCHILL IN FIRST EDITION

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2012

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SIGNED Wartime PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH of Winston Churchill This magnificent original SIGNED gelatin print was the property of film legend Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It is SIGNED and dated in ink: “Winston S. Churchill, January 1941” on the mount, which also bears the penciled name of “Harrods” and “Copy B-4.” A gift from Churchill presented to Fairbanks shortly after the Battle of Britain, the photograph was taken by Edward Steichen in 1932 for Vanity Fair magazine and served as the jacket image for While England Slept, the American edition of Churchill’s Arms and the Covenant, in 1938. The print is in mint condition and is handsomely matted and framed in a brass desktop picture frame.

Matted: 7 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., the son of the swashbuckling silent film star, enjoyed his own success in Hollywood motion pictures before joining the U.S. Navy in April 1941. When his friend Lord Louis Mountbatten formed Britain’s Combined Operations Command to develop and train commando units, Mountbatten requested that Fairbanks join his staff. Fairbanks helped develop diversionary tactics using dummies, phony wireless chatter and smokescreen recordings, and participated in the planning of all COC operations, including the 1942 Dieppe Raid. Returning to the U.S., he shared his espionage knowledge by setting up a secret camp in Virginia Beach under the U.S. Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Forces to train Beach Jumpers, a top-secret troop whose inheritors are today’s U.S. Navy Seals.

✒ SIGNED $15,000 #17865

catalogue of Churchilliana.

Signed first editions are the summit of Churchill book collecting. Fortunately, Winston Churchill was never shy about

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The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child

by Mary Soames ✒ SIGNED First English Edition $85 #17880

signing his works. Within, we have assembled a wide-ranging selection of Churchill volumes signed and, often, inscribed to admirers, contemporaries and close relations. These books constitute a singular embellishment to our usual array of the complete works of Winston Churchill in First Edition.

As always, we continue to

EDWINA SANDYS ART

✒ SIGNED First Edition $85 #17864

offer everything else relating to Winston Churchill, from signed documents and photographs, to rare objects and ephemera.

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As ever, enjoy, CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS

The first comprehensive volume, spanning four decades, of the provocative and beautiful art of Winston Churchill’s granddaughter Edwina Sandys.

1898

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE 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.

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

$6,500 #14213

This is a very good copy in the scarce mottled-green cloth binding variant that bibliographer Ronald Cohen suggests may only have been employed for the second state. The rear publisher’s catalogue is dated 12/97, and there are no errata slips. (Frederick Woods’s original Churchill bibliography indicated two “states” based on the presence or absence of errata slips. Subsequent research has indicated that no precedence should be assigned. A rear catalogue dated 12/97 does generally mean an earlier state than copies with 3/98 catalogues.) The cloth here is impressively fresh and bright, and the contents and binding are astonishingly clean and tight, save for very faint scattered foxing limited almost entirely to the fore-edges. The volume would be an exceptional example if not for an unfortunate reddish stain line that runs across the title on the spine and splashes in two spots on the rear board. That is a shame. The book, however, is anything but. Really a beautiful copy overall.

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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).

✒ SIGNED First Colonial Library Edition

(Cohen A1.2.c) (Woods A1ab)

$9,500 #14067

Inscribed and SIGNED in ink on the half-title to: “E.J. Turner, from the Author,” a form of inscription that we have only once before encountered in a book purportedly signed by Winston Churchill.

The inscription is secretarial, though Churchill rarely bestowed books without signing them himself. He was still in India when the Colonial Library Edition of Malakand first appeared, however, and may well have had the book sent with his absentee compliments. Colonial Library editions were “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies,” and had very poor survival rates, due to the harsher climate conditions overseas. The faded original front cover here, which has been bound in at the rear, bears witness to this.

The contents are fine and surprisingly unfoxed, with some very modest professional page repair to the prelims.

The frontis tissue guard and all maps are present. The book has been sumptuously rebound in full crimson morocco by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, the front board bearing Churchill’s facsimile signature in gilt, the spine gilt lettered, with raised bands in seven compartments that contain the Churchill rampant lion crest reiterated.

All edges are gilt and the marbled endpapers are trimmed in gilt-tooled leather.

A wonderful and singular rarity. As to the identity of the recipient, E.J. Turner, he remains a mystery.

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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 twovolume tome as may be found. Preserved in a very handsome purpose-built slipcase of recent vintage.

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✒ SIGNED First One-Volume Abridged Edition

(Cohen A2.2) (Woods A2b)

$9,500 #14221

Neatly SIGNED on the half-title: “From Winston S. Churchill.” Due to the small print run of 1,000 copies, this abridged edition is actually much rarer than the two-volume First Edition of The River War. (In his new Churchill bibliography, Ronald Cohen reports that sixty copies were reserved by the publisher for presentation, perhaps including this one.)

Churchill’s abridgment reduced his original text length by approximately one-third; the edition also benefited from an excellent new Preface by the author. This copy is in handsome condition, the cloth a deep red, the gilt bright, the contents clean, square, tight and unfoxed. There is some slight rubbing along the lower edge of the front board as well as a smattering of faint white stains along the front joint and the spine. There is a one-inch closed tear and another shorter closed tear to the cloth at the tail of the spine, else fine. A spectacular copy overall of a book very rarely seen, let alone signed.

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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.

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

$2,000 #13759

A very good copy of the true first edition, 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 cut, 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. It 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.

“Sevenpenny Library” Edition In Dust Jacket (1915) First American Edition (Second Printing) Red Binding Variant (Cohen A3.1.c) (Woods A3a)

$950 #16427

$2,000 #14232

This is a very good copy of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” in its extravagantly rare (and extraordinarily striking) dust jacket. A rather small and fragile clothbound paperback-equivalent of the World War I-era, the Sevenpenny Library edition did not generally age well and the dust jacket is virtually unknown, except in contemporary reprints. The jacket here has faded just a bit, with loss of approximately one-inch at the tail of the spine (which has been filled out with a xerox of the original jacket tail), but overall the jacket is impressively complete. The red cloth is vibrantly fresh beneath, and the contents are fine, the pages a trifle browned, as per usual, and the prelims very lightly foxed. Unique thus.

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This scarce variant was bound in bright red, rather than blue cloth, with lettering blocked white, rather than gilt. The book is in very good condition, the white lettering sharp and unusually bright on the front face, if completely faded on the spine, as per usual with this unique volume. The binding is crisp and the crimson cloth especially vivid. The hinges have been neatly reinforced. The contents are fine and unfoxed.

A delightfully gaudy rarity.

(Cohen A3.6.a) (Woods A3d)

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LONDON TO LADYSMITH (VIA PRETORIA)

1900

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.

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.

IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH

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 not worn. 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 halfinch, not affecting the printed title itself.

First Canadian Hardcover Edition (Cohen A8.3) (Woods A5)

$3,500 #14433

First Canadian Edition (Cohen A4.3.a) (Woods A4bb)

$1,000 #14236

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This is a very good copy of the rare first Canadian issue, which was produced from American edition plates and bound in a similar but not identical style to the English first edition. The coarser, more ochre-colored cloth retains the armored train cover motif but with a red fleur-de-lis on the spine instead of crossed flags. The front face here has two small spots along the upper edge. The book is otherwise pristine externally and very nearly so internally, save for an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Really a remarkable example of an edition that is far scarcer than either the English or American firsts.

This is a very good copy of the extravagantly rare first Canadian hardbound edition which, like the Canadian Ladysmith, was produced from American edition sheets. It is bound in a very attractive crossed-flag design that is far more striking than the plainly bound English and American first editions. Though the book exhibits some faint darkening and scuffing to the cloth, it is otherwise virtually mint, inside and out. Astonishing.

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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.

✒ SIGNED First English One-Volume Unabridged Edition

First English Edition Set

$10,000 #17500

(Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a)

$2,000 #14410

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

A very good First English edition set, the title page of both volumes embossed: “Presentation Copy” with a circular blind-stamp. Externally the books are in lovely shape, the cloth a vivid red, the spines unfaded, the gilt bright, the binding square and the corners sharp, with two creases in the rear board of Volume II. Internally there is very light, scattered foxing largely limited to the prelims, and a bookplate removed from each front pastedown. All four hinges have been discreetly reinforced and the second front free endpaper is missing from Volume I. Else fine.

According to the new Cohen bibliography, Churchill requested from his publisher, Macmillan, a total of 50 copies for presentation. He received them, though Macmillan was quite concerned that Churchill was giving away too many copies, admonishing him, “not to make any presents...to people who ought naturally to buy them.” This set, then, is a rare (though perhaps not as rare as Macmillan would have preferred) presentation set.

1907

(Cohen A17.4) (Woods A8b)

SIGNED and inscribed on the second free endpaper in ink: “To William C. Van Antwerp from Winston S. Churchill Sept. 28, 1929. Yosemite Valley.” The book is marvelously fresh, the cloth a trifle faded at the spine, with a hint of rubbing to the lower under-edge of the cloth boards and a nick in the inner front hinge. Contents fine.

Churchill’s three month tour of the United States and Canada in 1929 – “to see the country and to meet the leaders of its fortunes” – followed upon the defeat of Baldwin’s Conservative government and the end of Churchill’s tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer. WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP was a California stockbroker who “facilitated” Churchill’s visit to Yosemite.

The day after he inscribed this book, Churchill wrote home to his wife Clementine: “I have... made friends with Mr. Van Antwerp & his wife.

He is a little old man – one of the heads of a far reaching stock-broking firm – a great friend of England and a reader of all my books – quite an old fashioned figure. He is going to look after some of my money for me. His firm has the best information about the American Market & I have opened an account with them in which I have placed £3,000.

He will manipulate it with the best possible chance of success...I am sure it will prove wise.” One month later, Churchill was in Manhattan on October 24 – “Black Thursday,” as fate would have it – witnessing the stock market’s collapse firsthand, including the sight of a man actually leaping to his death just below Churchill’s window at the Savoy Plaza hotel. The dawn of the “Great Crash” brought the utter destruction of Churchill’s own highly leveraged personal fortune.

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FOR FREE TRADE

1906

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 (that still exists). As 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.

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 handlettered 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.a) (Woods A6c)

Contemporary facsimile reprint. A virtually mint copy. $95 #14238

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MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

1908

MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

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.

First American Edition (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.

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

$1,850 #10858

A very good copy in every respect, the cloth clean and bright, the corners sharp, if turned just a bit. The cover art is vivid and the spine is uniquely unfaded, just faintly rubbed, with a very short closed tear at the head. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown, the contents are otherwise fine and unfoxed. A superior example of this beautiful volume, housed in a purpose-built red cloth slipcase.

First Colonial Softcover Edition (Cohen A27.3) (Woods A12)

$4,500 #14243

First English “Cheap” Illustrated Edition (Cohen A27.8) (Woods A12b)

$950 #14247

This is the extremely rare and fragile early English illustrated softcover edition. Produced in the style of a “pulp” (a kind of Edwardian-age comic book), it has a new setting of the text (in two columns) printed on cheap paper that browned quickly, bound in slicked paper wraps with a full-color cover illustration of Churchill in pith helmet and rifle standing by his bagged white rhinoceros. The condition is far better than average for this perishable volume, the spine is cracked but with only fractional losses and the spine text is still perfectly legible. The cover has a crease near the lower right corner but is intact and attached. The contents are well browned but not foxed, and there are no losses. A scarce edition of this work.

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This is a very good copy of the very rare First Colonial edition in wraps. Cohen notes in his new bibliography that 903 copies of this edition were sold and that, “few appear to have survived.”

Survival was, of course, an issue for all Colonial editions, which suffered from the tropical climate in many of England’s colonies. This copy is in exceptional condition under the circumstances.

The wraps are intact, if worn along the spine, with a faint circular stain on the front face and another stain on the rear. The front face is bright, however, and the image of Churchill and his trophy rhinoceros is crisp and clear. The contents are fine, with a surprisingly minimal amount of foxing largely restricted to the prelims.

A very rare volume in rather rarified condition.

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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

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 (Cohen A29.2) (Woods A15c)

$1,500 #10219

1910

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.

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 new Churchill bibliography, Ronald Cohen reveals that this hardcover (“cased”) edition consisted of only 100 copies, bound on 20 December 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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An absolutely beautiful copy of the far rarer American issue, one of 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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THE WORLD CRISIS 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. A one-volume abridgement by the author was soon issued. Most subsequent reissues have been incomplete, abridged or condensed versions of the original text.

✒ SIGNED First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets

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(Cohen A69.2) (Woods A31ab)

$25,000 #8746

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IGNED in ink: “Winston S. Churchill” on the second front free endpaper of Volume II: All six books are in their extraordinarily rare, unclipped, correct First Edition dust jackets.

The jackets of Volumes I & II (Books 1 and 2) are marvelously fresh and bright, front and rear, with some darkening and light wear to the spines and a touch of ink transfer across the front face of Book 2. The jacket of Volume III/Part 1 (Book 3) has one-half-inch of loss across the spine head, wrapping around the front and rear faces, as well as small gaps along the front jacket fold.

The jacket of Volume III/Part 2 (Book 4) has fractional loss at the spine head and along the top rear edge. The jacket of The Aftermath (Book 5) is virtually mint. The jacket of The Eastern Front (Book 6) has closed tears along the spine, and an inch of loss midway, not affecting any text, with fractional losses at the head and tail. There are small chips to each corner, and fading along the edges of both faces.

The signature page of Volume 2 is moderately toned along the inner margin only. Spots of foxing appear on the foreedges of Volumes 3-6. The set is otherwise pristine.

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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.

✒ SIGNED First English Edition Inscribed to Churchill’s Daughter Diana

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

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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 October 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, quarter-burgundy leather clamshell solander.

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DIANA CHURCHILL (SANDYS) was born 11 July 1909. She married twice, the second time on 16 September 1935 to the Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys, with whom she had three children. She died 20 October 1963 of an overdose of barbiturates.

✒ SIGNED First English Edition (A91.1.a) $7,500 #17166

This beautiful copy of the First Binding/ First State in rough pink cloth is SIGNED and inscribed in ink on the half-title page: “To William Frederick Houghton, from Winston S. Churchill, Dec. 23 1930,” two months after publication.

Sadly, we strongly believe that the entire front gathering, including the lightly foxed signature page, originated with another copy of My Early Life and was expertly bound into this one. The price reflects this accordingly. Still, a very handsome example - the spine faded, as per usual, but otherwise clean and unworn, inside and out - with an absolutely authentic, however displaced, signature.

A ROVING COMMISSION First American Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A91.2.a) (Woods A37b)

$1,850 #14039

This is a very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which exhibits light creasing along the upper and lower edges of the front face and fractional losses at the corners, front and rear, but is otherwise astonishingly bright and fresh, with rich color and little fading to the notoriously fade-prone spine. There is a short closed tear extending one-half-inch from the spine head and an infinitesimal chip at the tail, else fine. The book itself is in beautiful condition, the contents fine and unfoxed, the binding square and tight. An excellent example of this jacketed rarity.

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INDIA

1931

THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES

1932

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.

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.

First English Hardcover Edition in Dust Jacket

First English Edition

(Cohen A92.1.a) (Woods A38) $10,500 #10333

$650 #4308

(Cohen A95.1.a (Woods A39a) A very good copy, without dust jacket; the cloth clean, with good color, exhibiting light shelfwear, particularly along the spine. The corners are just a bit turned.

There is foxing to the prelims only and a discreet former-owner name in ink on the front pastedown, else fine.

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This is an extraordinarily fine copy of the exceedingly rare hardcover First Edition, in the even scarcer dust jacket, which is lightly edge-chipped, with a short closed tear at the spine head and loss of less than one-half-inch at the tail, but it is otherwise remarkably bright and fresh on both front and rear panels, and only moderately faded along the spine. The book itself is pristine and appears unopened, the cloth a brilliant orange, the contents fine. As precious and rarely seen as any volume in the Churchill canon.

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MARLBOROUGH: HIS LIFE AND TIMES 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.

✒ SIGNED First Limited Edition

$20,000 #14373

One of only two leatherbound pre-publication Churchill first editions ever produced (the other being the Presentation binding of The Second World War). This marvelous set was the only such edition issued signed by the author, in a limitation of 155 copies. The four volumes here are in very good condition, handsomely bound in full dark orange Niger by Leighton Straker, as issued, gilt stamped with the Marlborough crest on the upper boards, gilt lettered on the spines in six compartments with raised bands, the top edges gilt, the endpapers marbled. The original card slipcases are not present.

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

$10,000 #14431

This is a stunning set, all volumes in their extravagantly rare, correct first state, unclipped dust jackets, as issued, in their original printed slipcases: Volumes I and II in white dust jackets printed green and slipcased as a set; Volumes III and IV also in white dust jackets printed green and slipcased as a set; Volume V in its unique off-white dust jacket printed red and black; and Volume VI in the familiar blue and gold dust jacket that made its first appearance here before Scribner rewrapped the completed set in this jacket design uniformly. The white jackets are all chipped here and there, with fractional losses at the spine heads and darkening to the spines but overall the jackets are immaculate, the slipcases fresh, if separating just a bit along certain edges, and the books virtually mint.

Thrilling!

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Cohen A97.1.a) (Woods A40a)

First American Edition Set in Dust Jackets

1933-38

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GREAT CONTEMPORARIES

1937

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 Roosevelt.

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

$2,500 #14407

This is 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 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 #14283

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1938

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.

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

$2,500 #11755

A very good copy which has lightly browned along the jacket edges, more severely so along the spine, but otherwise maintains its pale blue luster. The upper 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.

STEP BY STEP

1939

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.

First American Edition (Cohen A111.2) (Woods A45b)

$600 #17262

A very good copy in the rare dust jacket, which is unclipped and quite fresh, with good color, just mildly faded along the spine. The jacket is edge-chipped with fractional losses to the upper and lower edges of the front dust jacket face, else fine.

Contents fine as well. A very nice copy.

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A very good copy in the rare dust jacket, which is unclipped, with approximately one-quarter inch lost at the head of the spine, another oblong patch of loss approximately three-quarter inches in length near the front spine fold and fractional loss at the corners, but otherwise in beautiful shape, bright and clean. The book itself is absolutely mint, save for a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front free endpaper. Truly an attractive example.

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THE WAR SPEECHES

1941-46

Seven individual speech compilation volumes were published yearly, beginning in 1941, under the following titles: INTO BATTLE (1938-1940 speeches) [published in the U.S. as BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS]; 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).

First American Edition Set in Dust Jackets (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66- A114)

$1,750 #17441

A complete set of the far rarer First American editions, which are all unclipped and in very good condition. The jackets exhibit modest edge-chipping, creasing and some fractional losses, but only the spine head of Victory has significant loss of approximately one-half inch. Onwards to Victory jacket has some faint tape repair to the front face; Dawn of Liberation jacket has a single cross crease across the front face. Contents of all volumes are fine and unfoxed. The seal of a former owner is blind-stamped on the front free endpaper of Blood, Sweat and Tears.

There are hand-dated bookplates on all other volumes, save for End of the Beginning, which has a former owner name in ink and a partially removed book plate on the front pastedown and free endpaper, respectively.

THE WAR SPEECHES

1951-52

First English “Definitive” Edition Set in Dust Jackets (Cohen A263.1 [I-III].a) (Woods A136a)

$1,750 #14432

A handsomely produced three-volume “Definitive Edition” was issued after the war that collected the original seven individually published volumes of Churchill war speeches. While “Definitive,” the set is not entirely complete, certain speeches deemed to be of “reduced significance” were omitted. This is a very good set in unclipped dust jackets that have darkened with age, particularly at the spines, but are otherwise in admirable shape. The books are all in very good condition, virtually mint; square, clean and unfoxed. They are here preserved in a purpose-built burgundy cloth slipcase. Churchill favored greatly the beautiful design of this edition. The set is quite scarce today.

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1948-53

THE SECOND WORLD WAR 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.

✒ SIGNED First English Edition Set

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

$9,500 #17494

This beautifully preserved set is SIGNED, dated and inscribed in ink on the title page of Volume VI: “To N.C. Havenga, from Winston S. Churchill 1954.”

The unclipped dust jackets are uniquely bright on both the faces and on the spines, with very modest fading to the spine type. The dust jackets are sporadically edgechipped, with fractional losses, the most significant of which measures approximately one-inch across at the rear upper right corner of Volume I. The books are all clean and tight, the black cloth fresh, the contents fine, with very faint, scattered foxing to the fore-edges and prelims only of the first two volumes.

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NICOLAAS CHRISTIAAN HAVENGA (1882-1957) was a South African politician who served as Finance Minister in the governments of J. B. M. Hertzog and Daniel Francois Malan. Churchill’s connection to South Africa reached back to his infamous capture and escape as a twenty-five-year-old war correspondent during the Boer War.

THE GATHERING STORM ✒ SIGNED First American Edition Inscribed to Churchill’s Daughter Mary

and her New Husband

(Cohen A240.1[I].a) (Woods A123aa)

Please Inquire for Price #16069 This copy, in dust jacket, is inscribed on the front free endpaper to Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary, and to her then-new husband, Christopher Soames: “To Mary and Christopher, from Papa 1948.” The book exhibits noticeable shelf wear to the cloth and moisture appears to have caused the ink inscription to smear just a bit but the contents are fine and the dust jacket, though edge-chipped and agedarkened, is intact and unclipped. It is preserved in a stunning, purpose-built, quarter-burgundy leather clamshell solander.

MARY SPENCER-CHURCHILL (today, Lady Mary Soames) is the youngest of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s five children, born on 15 September 1922. She married Christopher Soames on 11 February 1947 at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Soames was at that time Assistant Military Attaché in Paris. Educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before being gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Coldstream Guards in 1939, Soames had served throughout the war in the Middle East, Italy and France, attaining the rank of Captain in 1942. He would become an intimate companion to his father-in-law, even contributing notes to the writing of Churchill’s Second World War memoirs. The Gathering Storm was the initial volume in a series that would help gain Churchill a Nobel Prize for literature. Published first in the United States, it was officially issued on 21 June 1948, though Churchill is known to have received his first copies off the presses about three weeks prior. This particular presentation must have given him enormous pleasure.

Mary had been his steadfast traveling companion during and after the war, and her own young family would grow up beside him at Chartwell. Fascinatingly, the book also contains copious penciled endnotes in Mary Soames’ hand covering the rear free endpaper and pastedown. The notes relate to the first five chapters of the book, commencing with “Papa’s” post-World War I career “After 1918,” and concluding with the “General Election of June 1935.”

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1948-61

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

First English Edition Set (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 others are not. Contents of all volumes are especially clean and unfoxed. A fine set overall.

First American Edition Set (Cohen A241-A264) (Woods A124-A137)

$850 #15385

A very good set of the four volumes published in the U.S., all in their rare dust jackets. The Sinews of Peace and Stemming the Tide jackets are price-clipped; Europe Unite and In the Balance jackets are unclipped. All four jackets are very modestly edge-chipped, with fractional losses, else fine. While brilliant and unfaded on the front and rear jacket faces, the jacket spine of In the Balance is significantly sun-faded and carries a small faded library mark. The bindings of all four volumes have very faintly faded as well. Contents fine, with a former-owner bookplate on each front pastedown. A lovely set overall.

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PAINTING AS A PASTIME 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 re-issued in a variety of English and American editions.

1948

✒ SIGNED First English Edition Inscribed to Churchill’s Favorite Cousin

(Cohen A 242.1.a) (Woods A125a)

$15,000 #17496

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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SIGNED and inscribed with unusually affectionate 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, purpose-built, 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. Born in London, the daughter of Lady Randolph’s sister, Clara Jerome, and her husband, the hapless Moreton Frewen, who so famously mangled the job of copy-editing Churchill’s first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Clare Sheridan’s godmother and namesake was Consuelo Vanderbilt, for a time the Duchess of Marlborough, and another Churchill favorite. After marrying William Frederick Sheridan in 1910, Clare Sheridan bore three children and became 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. While visiting America, she had a notorious love affair with Charlie Chaplin and her circle included Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh. Her busts of her cousin Winston can be found at Blenheim Palace, Harrow School and, of course, at Chartwell.

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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 (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)

$750 #17796 This is a very good set in unclipped dust jackets that have darkened a bit with age along the spines but are otherwise crisp and clean. The contents of all volumes are fine, with just a touch of faint foxing to the prelims and fore-edges. The topstain on Volume I has faded entirely, all other topstains are still a bold, strong red. A very nice set.

First English “Chartwell Edition” (Cohen A267.2) (Woods A138d)

$650 #17751

1961-69

The Four Spin-Off Volumes in First Edition (Cohen A272/275/278/279) (Woods A138[b/c/h/j])

$1,100 #12888 Beginning in 1961, the British and American publishers of Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples each began issuing individual spin-off volumes that repackaged excerpts from the four-volume set. Some of these books sold well, others didn’t, but it is extremely rare to find a complete group of them in dust jackets and in first edition. This is one such set, all volumes in handsome condition. The American Civil War (1961) reprints Churchill’s biting overview of America’s “War Between the States” from Volume IV complete as a single book, illustrated with a portfolio of photographs by Matthew Brady and others. The Island Race (1964) is a richly illustrated, coffee table-sized folio abridgement of the complete work, packed with superb fullcolor plates. Heroes Of History (1968) is an interesting volume of extracted personality profiles – thirteen of Churchill’s “favorite characters,” according to the publisher – from Kings Alfred and Harold, William the Conqueror, Henry Plantagenet, Thomas Becket, Richard II, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, to Nelson, Wellington, Washington, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee and Queen Victoria. A fourteenth chapter is devoted to Churchill himself, also in his own words. The final volume, Joan Of Arc (1969) is a sweet little book that extracts from Volume I Churchill’s eloquent thoughts about the martyred French heroine. It was printed only once in the U.S, by Dodd Mead, in a very limited run and is the scarcest of the four today. All four volumes are here in unclipped dust jackets that exhibit very modest shelfwear and edge-chipping, else fine, including Joan Of Arc, which is in superb condition, virtually mint, save for what appears to be the shadow of a bookplate removed from the front pastedown. A precious, rarely assembled group.

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Published simultaneously with the First English edition but sold by subscription only, this set constituted the First Illustrated edition of Churchill’s mammoth history. The four volumes are richly bound in blue cloth with red leather spine labels, the text, printed on high grade paper, is profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. This is a very good example, with crisp leather labels and bright gilt, lacking the original plasticine dust wrappers. The contents are clean, tight, and unfoxed.

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THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY

BY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND MARTIN GILBERT

1966-2001

The Official Biography is the ultimate source work about Sir Winston Churchill and the longest biography ever published (the actual Guinness record holder). Begun by Churchill’s son Randolph (who authored Volumes I and II), the eight volume set was completed by Sir Martin Gilbert, (Volumes III-VIII) whose great achievement it remains. The eight Main text volumes are supplemented by 16 Companion volumes (to date) that reproduce in their entirety most of the letters and documents referred to in the Main volumes. A total of seven further Companion volumes are planned by Sir Martin.

✒ SIGNED First American Edition Set In Dust Jackets

(Za302a-h)(R230a-h)

$15,000 #14187

A very rare, complete, SIGNED 24-volume set of First American editions in correct, unprice-clipped dust jackets, as originally issued. Main Volume I is SIGNED and Inscribed in ink on the half-title by Randolph Churchill: “Inscribed for Charles S. Bird, P.B.E. by Randolph S. Churchill.” Main Volumes IIIVIII are SIGNED in ink: “Martin Gilbert” and most are dated in his hand: “Nashville, 1990” on their respective title pages. All eleven Companion Volumes authored by Sir Martin have also been SIGNED in ink on their respective title pages. The front free endpapers of all volumes bear a discreet former-owner initial blindstamp. Companion Volume III, Part 1 also has a name and address in ink on the front free endpaper. Else fine. A very special set.

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Rare COUNTRY HOUSE PHOTOGRAPH and AUTOGRAPH ALBUM

circa

✒ SIGNED by WSC $8,500 #17348

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The album measures 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches.

Above: Snapshot from the album of Winston Churchill and Sir Frederick (F.E.) Smith at Hartsbourne Manor, circa 1916.

The album appears to have been compiled by Frances Margaret Montagu (identified throughout as “M.M.”), at the time the wife of James Fountayne Montagu, the master of Cold Overton Hall. The photographs range from group and individual portraits, to shots of tennis games, horses, hounds and houses, most of which are identified in hand-lettered captions. The subjects include Elliott, Clementine Churchill, Muriel Wilson (the society beauty to whom Churchill, in his youth, once had proposed marriage), Nancy Cunard and Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, among many others. Signatures include several of Harold Nicolson, Vita Nicolson, Nancy Cunard, Oswald Mosely and Diana Manners, along with the Churchills, Elliot and Smith. The album has been sumptuously rebound in full green Morocco leather with elaborate gilt tooling and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, the spine gilt tooled in six compartments with raised bands. The pages are damp-stained but stabilized and the photographs are vivid and in excellent condition. A priceless memento of a vanished age.

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This extraordinary one-of-a-kind album documents with original snapshot photographs and guest book pages the social life before and after World War I of three English country houses: Cold Overton Hall, Reigate Priory, and Winston Churchill’s favorite English retreat, Hartsbourne Manor, home to his mother’s dear friend, the American actress, Maxine Elliott. Among the folio-sized album’s 16 pages of approximately 100 vintage black and white snapshots and approximately 150 guest book signatures are two bold Churchill ink signatures, one on a guest book page beside Clementine Churchill’s and Maxine Elliott’s, the other on a guest book page near the signatures of Elliott and Churchill’s dearest friend, Sir Frederick (F.E.) Smith.

The album also contains a never-before-seen snapshot of Churchill and Smith side by side on the lawn at Hartsbourne Manor, with Churchill in his painting smock, clutching a pair of paintbrushes; certainly one of the earliest extant photographs of him as a painter.

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SIGNED Wartime PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH of Winston Churchill (See inside front cover.)

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