Churchill at Chartwell Catalogue 2016

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

OUR NEW CATALOGUE

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL 2016 CATALOGUE

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S CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL’S 1943 CHRISTMAS GIFT TO HER DAUGHTER MARY

“For my darling Mary from Mummie, Christmas 1943.”

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elcome to our newest catalogue from our original location here in the Park Avenue Plaza building. This is a celebratory catalogue, full of extraordinary rarities, as well as first edition copies of every Churchill book-length work.

For a while it did appear that we would be bidding farewell to this space that has embraced Chartwell Booksellers since our opening in April 1983, but that farewell has been rescinded. Come the new year, we will be right where we belong and you will find the entirety of our inventory, as ever, here on our bookshelves and on our website: www.churchillbooks.com.

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THE MAN WITHIN Winston Churchill, An Intimate Portrait

by Alison Carlson $50.00 #204275

Chartwell Booksellers

A most welcome addition to the canon of Churchill photobiographies, this new volume is one of the handsomest yet seen, and filled with rarely seen images from the entirety of Churchill’s career.

CHURCHILL STYLE

NO MORE CHAMPAGNE

The Art of Being Winston Churchill

Churchill and His Money

With best wishes,

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Hand and Flower Press Edition $4,500 #203845

A beautiful book with a very significant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: “For my darling Mary from Mummie, Christmas 1943.”

MARY CHURCHILL (nee Soames), Winston and Clementine Churchill’s youngest child, spent Christmas 1943 apart from her family, in London, manning a Hyde Park anti-aircraft battery as an officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Her father had suffered a heart attack following the Casablanca Conference and was recuperating.

Her mother had flown out to North Africa to nurse him.

The book is in very good condition, with some wear along the cover edges and down the cloth spine, which has darkened significantly. The contents are fine. It is here presented in a stunning quarter-leather cloth clamshell solander.

by Barry Singer

Foreword by Michael Korda

SIGNED American Edition $24.95 #18382

by David Lough $32.00 #204415

A deftly researched, encyclopedic chronicle of Churchill’s lifelong struggles with solvency. Truly fascinating.

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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.b) (Woods A1a)

$6,000 #203960

A very good copy of the Second State of the First Edition, as per Cohen. The cloth color is quite bright, with some faint scuffing; the spine has darkened considerably and the gilt spine lettering has faded.

The binding is crisp, the corners are gently turned. The rear publisher’s catalogue is present, dated 3/98, and an errata slip is present after the first folding map. The frontis portrait tissue guard is present and well-tanned. The hinges are tender. The contents are fine, entirely unfoxed.

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Leatherbound First English “Shilling Library” Edition (1916) SIGNED and Inscribed by Winston Churchill (Cohen A1.5) (Woods A1c)

$9,500 #204684

Signed in ink on the front free endpaper: “For Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1946.” Colonel Frank Clarke famously hosted the Churchills at his Miami Beach home in 1946 prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what would come to be known as his “Iron Curtain” speech.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

1899

THE RIVER WAR

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. Published in two large, lavish and, today, extremely rare volumes. All subsequent editions were significantly abridged.

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

$8,500 #13763

This is a very good First Edition set. The cloth and the spines are clean and unfaded, with bright gilt and only minor scuffing, including a light but noticeable mark to the rear board of Volume I. The spines are mildly ruffled at both ends, and there are handsome vintage bookplates affixed to the front pastedowns of both volumes. The contents are clean, with truly negligible foxing confined to the prelims. The bindings are just a bit tender, which is most common. An excellent example of this majestic pair, preserved in a very handsome purposebuilt slipcase of recent vintage.

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 greatly expanded Churchill bibliography

by Ronald Cohen (Cohen).

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FRAMED SIGNED AND DATED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL AS A YOUNG SUBALTERN IN INDIA

1896

–Please Inquire for Price – #204669

This extraordinary original portrait photograph of Winston Churchill, newly arrived in Bangalore, India, is signed and dated in ink at the lower corner of the mount: “Winston Spencer-Churchill 1899.” Churchill did not sign his full formal surname in this fashion for very long beyond this date; its presence here is quite marvelous. The image itself, while well known, varies from the standard view. Clearly a few different angles were attempted during the photo session. This view particularly captures Churchill’s exceptionally youthful face. He was then just twenty-one.

The photograph measures 71⁄4 x 9 inches and is in very good overall condition, with some surface scratches and a crease in the upper righthand corner. There is a break in the original mount behind this crease that does not affect the image.

A typed note present in an envelope from the London autograph dealer Winifred A. Myers of New Bond Street, London, postmarked “14 December 1964,” states: This photograph has a history. It was given [by Winston Churchill] to General Sir Reginald Wingate who followed Kitchener as Sirdar (C-in-C) of Egyptian Army and Governor-General of the Sudan, who had helped Churchill with his book, ‘The River Road’ [sic–‘War’].

Matted and sumptuously framed (16 x 18 inches overall).

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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 First American edition the true first.

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

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FRAMED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JOHN MORLEY

“Dinner tonight has fallen through…”

1902 $8,500 #204640

$1,950 #203959

A very good copy of the true first edition. The cloth is a vivid deep-blue, the gilt lettering is bright.

The corners are sharp, the spine unruffled. There is a former owner’s name ornately hand-dated in ink, “February 8th, 1900,” on the front free endpaper.

The bookplate of the legendary Churchill collector Donald Scott Carmichael is loosely tipped-in on the front pastedown. The contents are otherwise clean and unfoxed. An exceptionally good copy.

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

$1,800 #203943

A very good First English edition copy. The green cloth and gilt lettering are clean and bright. The binding is square, the corners just a touch turned; the lower right front corner a bit more crunched.

The contents are fine, but lightly foxed throughout.

(15 x 18 inches overall)

A marvelously intimate personal note from Winston Churchill to his then-new mentor in the House of Commons, JOHN MORLEY (1838-1923), philosopher and “freethinker,” disciple and biographer of Gladstone, who exerted a special influence on young Winston, in particular educating Churchill about the conditions of the poor in England; leading ultimately to Churchill’s crossing the aisle to join Morley’s Liberal party on May 31, 1904.

On notepaper from Churchill’s new bachelor flat at 105 Mount Street (4 3⁄4 x 7 3⁄4 inches), dated “27 July [19]02,” all in Churchill’s hand: My dear Mr. Morley, Dinner tonight has fallen through because I cannot collect the friends I want; but Arthur Balfour can come on Monday next, June 2, and I am arranging a small party in the House for that date. Will you come then? and whether or no, forgive me for bothering you so often. One word – literally – in reply!

Yours most sincerely, Winston S. Churchill

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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.

1900

IAN HAMILTON’S M ARCH

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

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

$1,750 #203958

An exceptionally good copy with an uncommonly bright spine, an exceedingly crisp binding, sharp corners and clean, unfoxed contents. The folding maps are not only complete and correctly folded, they appear never to have been opened.

The only caveats are some darkening to the cloth on the front face and scattered foxing to the fore-edges. Rare thus.

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

First American Edition (Cohen A4.2.a) (Woods A4ba)

$650 #203946

A very good copy of the far scarcer First American edition. The red cloth and gilt titles are quite fresh; the corners are sharp. The spine is virtually unfaded but does contain a small white stain. There is a former owner’s bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents are fine, with all maps present and none misfolded.

A very handsome copy overall.

$1,250 #203945

A very good copy. The binding is tight and the red cloth and gilt titles are bright, though the spine has modestly faded.

There is a tiny chip in the front face and some faint rubbing to the spine joints and ruffling to the spine head and tail.

The spine has also darkened with age.

The contents are fine, with a former owner’s bookplate on the black front pastedown. The prelims are very faintly foxed, and there is a faint stain in the upper fore-edge, else fine.

Leatherbound First English Edition (Second Printing) INITIALED and Presented by Winston Churchill (Cohen A8.1.c) (Woods A5)

$8,500 #204610

Initialed in ink on the front free endpaper for Colonel Frank Clarke, who famously hosted the Churchills at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what would come to be known as his “Iron Curtain” speech. The book has been trimmed for binding.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

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MR . BRODRICK’S ARMY & FOR FREE TRADE

1903 / 1906

The holy grail of Churchill book-collecting, these two softcover collections of Churchill’s early Parliamentary speeches – respectively, opposing plans for expanding England’s peacetime army, and advocating for Free Trade – were published in very limited numbers by Arthur L. Humphreys, General Manager of Hatchard’s, the venerable London bookshop. Both books were identically bound in unprepossessing red printed card wraps that did not age well. The surviving handful of copies (fewer than twenty accounted for each) today constitute the stuff of collectors’ dreams.

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

1906

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

SIGNED First English Edition Set (Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a)

$22,500 #203956

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

Please Inquire for Price #14349

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

Without question, the rarest Churchill first edition available today. 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: “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.”

Mr. Brodrick’s Army First American Edition “Library Binding” (1977) (Cohen 10.3.b) (Woods A6c)

$125 #19481

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

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This beautiful set is inscribed and signed in ink on the first free endpaper of Volume I to: “Charles Longman from Winston S. Churchill, Jan. 1, 1906” (the day before publication).

Churchill had published all of his previous books with Charles Longman’s firm of Longmans, Green and Company, commencing with his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force.

His asking price, however, for the right to publish his planned biography of his father was too high for Charles Longman. Ultimately, Frederick Macmillan acquired the book for an 8,000 pound advance. Longman believed MacMillan had overpaid. He was wrong. Retailing for a very high 36 shillings (a little less than 2 pounds), the book wound up selling 6,250 copies.

Recipients of first edition copies inscribed by Churchill on January 1, other than Charles Longman, included Churchill’s mother, Lady Randolph, and the King.

The cloth here remains fresh, the gilt is bright, the corners sharp, the spines unfaded. Longman’s bookplate is affixed to the front pastedowns of both volumes. The hinges in both are tender. The signature page in Volume I is a trifle toned, as are the tissue guards throughout. There is a spot of foxing to the fore-edge of the final gathering of pages in Volume II. Else fine.

The set is preserved in a majestic, double-cased, quarter-navy-blue morocco solander with red leather spine labels.

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MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

1908

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.

First English Edition (Cohen A27.5) (Woods A12aa)

$1,850 #203938

A very good copy, with bright cover art, a square, tight binding, sharp corners and a beautifully rounded spine that is somewhat faded, as per usual. There is toning to the free endpapers, front and rear, and an ink gift inscription on the second front free endpaper, dated “1908.” The contents are fine, with scattered foxing throughout and a tiny vintage Belfast bookshop plate on the rear pastedown. A very handsome example overall.

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.

Leatherbound First English Edition INITIALED and Presented by Winston Churchill (Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a)

$10,000 #204628

First American Edition (Cohen A27.5) (Woods A12ab)

$1,250 #14436

The far rarer First American edition in very good condition; the third issue (per Cohen), with an undated cancel title page stating: “George H. Doran Company, New York” as the publisher, and no publisher line on the verso.

The spine type has faded just a bit and there is a one-and one-half-inch tear along the upper right joint, with some light edge wear to the tail. There is a previous owner’s discreet ink stamp on the title page, but the contents are clean, bright and unfoxed.

Signed in ink: “WSC – Col. Frank W. Clarke” on the front free endpaper. The book has been trimmed for binding. An interesting and quite surprising feature is that many pages throughout have been extensively and professionally blue-penciled, with numerous ink edits, including the numbering and renumbering of paragraphs. It is difficult to decipher the purpose of this editing but it clearly would seem to have come from Churchill, as the book has remained in the Clarke family’s possession since it was received. Perhaps Churchill inadvertently turned over a proof or copy-editor’s copy in assembling his gift set.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

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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 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.

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FRAMED ORIGINAL CARTOON DRAWING OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL “Winston takes his last cigarette…”

1908 $2,500 #204599

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. The book did not age especially well, but this is a first-rate example of the Second State (per Cohen). The cloth is a rich 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.

An original pencil cartoon drawn by Edward Tennyson Reed for Punch magazine. The final caption, which is heavily edited, with cross-outs, reads: An offence under the new Protection of Children Act. Winston takes his last cigarette before a bill is passed.

The drawing is on paper measuring 3 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 inches, and is here matted and handsomely framed in grey and black (overall size: 9 x 12 1⁄2 inches).

EDWARD TENNYSON REED (1860-1933) made his first contribution to Punch magazine in June 1889 and joined the staff the following year. Born in Greenwich, London, and educated, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow, as the son of an MP, Reed became Punch’s parliamentary caricaturist in 1884 and remained so until 1912, when he left Punch to draw for The Bystander.

Winston Churchill in his early years in Parliament was a favorite subject of Reed’s, who preferred the pencil to pen and ink, and was a superb draughtsman.

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THE WORLD CRISIS

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 I (1911-1914) and Volume II (1915) were published in 1923. Volume III (1916-1918) was published in two parts in 1927(hence the five/in six volumes ultimate format).

Volume IV (“The Aftermath 1918-1928”) was published in 1929; and Volume V in 1931 (subtitled “The Unknown War” in the U.S. and “The Eastern Front” in the U.K.).

Leatherbound Presentation First English Edition Set SIGNED in All Volumes (Cohen A69.2[1.b II-V.a]) (Woods A31ab)

$35,000 #204608

Inscribed and signed in ink on the front free endpaper of Volume I: “To Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1947.” The remaining five volumes are each signed in ink on their front free endpapers: “From Winston S. Churchill.” The books have been trimmed for binding.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

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FRAMED VINTAGE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH & SIGNATURE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AS CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

1927 $7,500 #204630

Winston Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin’s government from 1924-1929. This quite unique, original bromide studio portrait photograph is by Arthur Hands of Wanstead, who has signed the mount in the lower right corner. The mount is also inscribed in ink: “The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer).” The photograph measures 6 x 8 inches and is in very good condition, with some light surface scratches. It has been matted with Churchill’s ink signature on a fragment of embossed Treasury Chambers, Whitehall letterhead along with a typed presentation note on similarly embossed notepaper (31⁄2 x 5 inches) that reads: “With Mr. Churchill’s compliments 1.12.27.” The photograph and signature have been elaborately framed in a striking gilded frame (18 x 21 inches overall).

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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 reissued editions. True first editions, however, remain quite rare.

1931

INDIA

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.

Early English Edition SIGNED: “To Winston from Winston” (Cohen A91.3.b) (Woods A37a)

$10,000 #204859

This Second Printing of the Keystone Library edition (First Binding State) is SIGNED and dated in ink by Winston Churchill on the second front free endpaper: “To Winston from Winston May 3, 1937.”

The marvelously inscrutable inscription is to WINSTON FREDERICK CHURCHILL GUEST, the son of Churchill’s first cousin and former private secretary Frederick “Freddie” Guest (who was the third son of Lord Randolph’s sister, Cornelia). Freddie Guest died of cancer on April 28, 1937. The Churchill archives record a letter of condolence from Winston Churchill to Winston Guest sent on May 19,1937. No doubt this book accompanied it. The Second Printing of the Keystone Library edition indeed came out in January 1937. The dust jacket is additionally signed by Churchill hastily in pencil above the title: “W.G. from Winston Churchill.” The jacket has darkened with age and exhibits some faint staining along the folds but is entirely intact. The book itself, bound in smooth pink cloth, remains bright and fresh. The contents are fine, with very light, very scattered foxing here and there throughout.

A rather extraordinary rarity. There isn’t another like it.

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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.

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Leatherbound First English Edition (Second Printing) INITIALED and Presented by Winston Churchill Cohen (A92.1.e) (Woods A38)

$6,500 #204629

Initialed in ink on the front free endpaper for Colonel Frank Clarke, who famously hosted the Churchills at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what would come to be known as his “Iron Curtain” speech.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

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SIGNED LEATHERBOUND PRESENTATION SET

FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL TO COLONEL FRANK CLARKE

1900 -1946

24 volumes / Various English Editions –Please Inquire for Price – #204614

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The Set Comprises ✦ THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE (“Shilling Library” Edition)

Inscribed and SIGNED on the front free endpaper: “To Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1946.”

✦ THE WORLD CRISIS (First English Edition Set)

Inscribed and SIGNED on the front free endpaper of Volume I: “To Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1947.” The other five volumes are each SIGNED in ink on their respective front free endpapers “From Winston S. Churchill.”

Colonel Frank Clarke famously hosted Winston and Clementine Churchill at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what would come to be known as his “Iron Curtain” speech.

Churchill sent this signed leatherbound set of his works to Clarke by way of thanks; 24 volumes in all, every book either signed or initialed in ink. (Winston Churchill signed with his initials for intimates only.)

The bindings, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, are three-quarter blue crushed morocco leather over blue cloth, with gilded top edges, gilt titles on the spines with raised bands in six compartments, and marbled endpapers. The leather bindings have faded a bit along the spines and exhibit varying wear to the cloth. Many books have been trimmed for binding. The contents are fine, with tanning to the endpaper edges and very light, scattered foxing.

Winston Churchill and Frank Clarke had known each other since the General Strike of 1926, when the Quebec-born Clarke, whose family owned paper mills in Canada, worked for Churchill on the staff of The British Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill later stayed at Clarke’s lakeside cabin for two days of rest following the Quebec Conference in 1943.

Clarke was a shipowner, whose vessels served in Allied operations throughout the war as hospital, supply and troop ships.

A most significant association set that comes by direct descent from the Clarke family.

The remaining books are initialed on their respective front free endpapers: ✦ THE RIVER WAR (First Abridged “Cheap” Edition) ✦ IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH (Second Printing of the First English Edition) ✦ MY AFRICAN JOURNEY (First English Edition) ✦ LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM (First English edition) ✦ MY EARLY LIFE (Wartime Scribner Edition) ✦ INDIA (Second Printing of the First English Edition) ✦ THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES (Wartime Macmillan Edition)

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✦ GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (Second Printing of the Wartime Macmillan Edition) ✦ STEP BY STEP (Wartime Macmillan Edition) ✦ ARMS AND THE COVENANT (First English Edition) ✦ THE WAR SPEECHES (Mixed First English Editions) 21

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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.

MARLBOROUGH:

HIS LIFE AND TIMES

1933-38

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.

Leatherbound First English Edition Set (Cohen A97.2[I-IV].c/a) (Woods A40aa)

$4,500 #16852

First English Edition (Cohen A95.1.a) (Woods A39a)

$3,000 #203966

A very good copy in the handsome and extraordinarily rare dust jacket, which has darkened considerably with age but is otherwise in very good condition, with fractional losses to each corner and at the spine tail and head, leading to the front spine fold. The cloth boards have also darkened with age but the gilt lettering is bright and the binding crisp. The contents are fine, with scattered, light foxing to the prelims and the final rear page. Overall, a very good example of a very rare book.

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AMID THESE STORMS First American Edition (Cohen A95.2) (Woods A39b)

$1,450 #202821

A very good copy in the rare dust jacket, which is here unclipped but shelfworn and edge-chipped, with significant fading to the spine. There is 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, which is also quite creased.

The book itself is in very good condition.

The cloth is still a bright salmon pink.

The fade-prone spine is quite faded, as per usual. The binding is tight. The contents are fine, with very light scattered foxing to the fore-edges only.

A very handsome leatherbound set, bound by Asprey in three-quarter crimson morocco over red cloth, all edges gilt, with marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered on the spine in six compartments with five raised bands. The contents are fine, with indetectable professional paper repair to the half-titles of Volumes I and II.

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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 G.B. 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.

ARMS AND THE COVENANT

1938

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

SIGNED First English Edition First English Edition (Cohen A105.1.a) (Woods A43a)

(Cohen A107.1) (Woods A44a)

$15,000 #204004

$3,500 #202892

This is a very good copy in the rare and extremely 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 extremely fresh and crisp externally.

The contents are fine, with a vintage bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, and a small rub in the front free endpaper, alongside an inked notation of the book’s (incorrect) Woods biblio number “[A43b].” There are mild book flap shadows on both endpapers, front and rear. Still, an extremely attractive copy overall.

STRAND MAGAZINE: “THE TRAGIC STORY OF PARNELL”

BY WINSTON CHURCHILL

1936 (Cohen C509) (Woods C315)

$100 #200978

First appearance of this biographical essay on Charles Stewart Parnell, the Victorian-era Irish politician, later added to the revised edition of Great Contemporaries. This is a very good copy with creases along the edges of the marvelous cover illustration.

The contents are a bit shelfworn and mildewy, with loss at the spine tail, but intact entirely.

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This First English edition, in the extravagantly rare dust jacket, is signed and dated in ink on the front free endpaper: “From Winston S. Churchill, August 1938,” on the eve of the Munich Agreement, and just months after publication The dust jacket is spotted lightly throughout, more pronounced across the rear face, but otherwise maintains its pale blue luster. The jacket spine has been reinforced on the verso with tape at the head and tail, and at the upper spine folds, but not visibly. The jacket spine has darkened a bit and has a light crease down its length.

There is toning to the half-title that delivers a perfect x-ray of the signature page, and toning to the rear second free endpaper, as is common with this book. The contents are otherwise fine. A very important book with a signature and a date drenched in drama.

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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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TYPED NOTE SIGNED ON THE EVE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA’S OCCUPATION WITH VINTAGE PRESS PHOTOGRAPH

“The uncertainties which prevented me last year, still overhang our future.”

1939 $12,500 #13054

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

$1,500 #203967

A very good copy in the rare dust jacket, which is a bit roughly price-clipped but in very sound condition, sunned lightly along the spine, as per usual, but not severely.

There are two small stains near the lower edge of the front face. The contents are fine and virtually unfoxed, save for a light smattering along the hinging of the front and rear pastedowns.

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Leatherbound Wartime Reprint Edition INITIALED and Presented by Winston Churchill Cohen (A111.3.a) (A45c.1)

$8,500 #204612

Initialed in ink on the front free endpaper for Colonel Frank Clarke, who famously hosted the Churchills at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what would come to be known as his “Iron Curtain” speech. The book has been trimmed for binding.

For further details, please see pages 20-21.

A paradigmatic note written as the darkening Nazi threat that Churchill had long predicted was becoming reality. Written on Chartwell notepaper (4 3⁄4 x 7 3⁄4 inches), dated “6th March, 1939,” to Mr. Harold R. Peat: “I am afraid I cannot contemplate a tour at the present time. The uncertainties which prevented me last year, still overhang our future.”

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 the border into Czechoslovakia. Six months after writing this letter, Winston Churchill was grudgingly invited by Chamberlain back into his government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

HAROLD R. PEAT, a former-World War I war hero, ran the Peat Lecture Bureau at 2 West 45th Street in New York City.

The letter is in very good condition, with a paperclip shadow at the upper left corner and a small date of receipt stamp, “Mar. 16, 1939.”

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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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ORIGINAL CASABLANCA CONFERENCE FORMAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, MARSHALL & MOUNTBATTEN

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

$2,000 #203810

A very good complete set of First English editions, all First State/First Printings, in the increasingly scarce original dust jackets, each of which exhibits wear but is intact, unclipped, and correct. Presented in a purposebuilt burgundy cloth slipcase.

For complete descriptions of this set, please see our website: www.churchillbooks.com.

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

$2,500 #203868

Brilliantly rebound in full deep-red oasis leather by Zaehnsdorf of London, with marbled endpapers, spines with raised edges in six compartments, all edges gilt. The books are in lovely condition, the bindings crisp and tight, the contents fine and unfoxed. Churchill favored greatly the beautiful design of this edition. He also favored bindings by Zaehnsdorf, whom he sometimes employed to create gift editions of his own books.

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1943 –Please Inquire for Price – #204699

A majestically large official formal portrait from the Casablanca Conference signed by Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Sir Alan Brooke, Air Chief Marshall Charles Portal, General George Marshall, General Henry A. Arnold, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Lt. General Hastings Ismay, Admiral Ernest J. King, Vice Admiral Lord Mountbatten and Admiral Sir James Somerville. Originally presented to General “Hap” Arnold, the photograph was acquired directly from his family. It remains in stunning condition. Matted and sumptuously framed (28 x 28 inches overall).

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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.

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

$6,500 #203993

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ORDER OF SERVICE SIGNED BY CHURCHILL, EISENHOWER & MONTGOMERY

1945

$15,000 #204163

Signed and dated in ink: “Winston S. Churchill 1951” on the front free endpaper of Volume IV. The jacket spines have faded and darkened variably, with more pronounced darkening to Volumes I, V and VI, but the spine type is legible on all.

The only consequential jacket loss is approximately one inch to the lower rear right edge of Volume III, wrapping just a touch to the spine.

The books are all clean and tight; the black cloth fresh, the corners sharp.

The contents are fine, with a former owner’s name discreetly in ink on the front free endpaper of Volume II. There is faint foxing to the fore-edges and prelims of Volumes I and II only. The topstains have faded variably on all volumes. Overall, a most presentable signed set.

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

$5,000 #204572

Bound in three-quarter cognac-colored morocco leather over marbled boards by the legendary Bumpus of Oxford Street; Winston Churchill’s frequent choice for leatherbinding of his own books. The top edges are gilded, the endpapers marbled, the spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with five raised bands. The contents are fine, the spines are very slightly sun-faded.

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The original Order of Service booklet for the Second Army Thanksgiving Service on Conclusion of Campaign in North West Europe, 6th June 1944 to 5th May 1945, signed in ink on the colorful front cover: “Winston S. Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower and B. L. Montgomery, Field-Marshal.”

The cover features the Second Army shield surrounded by the insignias of each individual division, in full color. The contents commence with a page titled “The Path of the Army” that chronologically details every major locale conquered from D-Day to the Baltic. The complete text of the prayer service follows.

The staples have rusted somewhat, there is light foxing and spotting to the contents and faint yellowing to the page edges, but overall this fragile piece has survived admirably.

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

THE POSTWAR SPEECHES

CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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

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FRAMED SIGNED FORMAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH

BY WALTER S. STONEMAN

1945 $11,500 #204631

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.

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.

For complete descriptions of these sets, please see our website: www.churchillbooks.com.

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This striking official wartime studio portrait of Winston Churchill, famously taken by photographer Walter Stoneman in the Cabinet Room at Number 10 Downing Street on April 1, 1941, is mounted on photo card and signed: “Winston S. Churchill” in ink beneath the image on the mount. Accompanying the photograph is the original Prime Minister’s headed presentation slip to Flight Commander [S.B] Cliff, which reads, in ink in a secretarial hand: “Flight C. Cliff. With Mr. Churchill’s Compliments. March 1945,” four months before his resignation. The photograph is in very good condition, with some silvering to the extremities of the image and some wear to the mount. By direct descent from the family of S.B. Cliff. It is here matted and handsomely framed in black lacquer.

(Photograph 4 x 5 inches/Framed 16 x 18 inches).

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

1948

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 reissued in a variety of English and American editions.

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FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL

BY PHILIPE HALSMAN

SIGNED First English Edition (Third Impression) (Cohen A 242.1.c) (Woods A125a)

$6,500 #203935

Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “From Winston S. Churchill.” The book has been handsomely rebound in full red morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street: all edges gilt. The narrow spine is delicately gilt tooled and lettered. The contents are fine, with faint toning to the edges of the endpapers, front and rear. The previous owner has added her name in ink above Churchill’s signature: “Sylvia Foot,” the wife of Hugh Mackintosh Foot, who was British Governor of Jamaica from 1951 to 1957.

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

$8,500 #203936

This very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, has been boldly signed in ink on the front free endpaper: “W. Churchill.” The dust jacket is edgeworn, with fractional losses along the front face, upper and lower edges, and at the spine head and tail. The contents are fine.

1951/1972

$1,500 #204227 Vintage photogravure print of Halsman’s legendary photograph taken at Chartwell in 1951.

This print (11 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄4) was produced in 1972 for a suite of Halsman photogravures. It is in excellent condition and has been matted and stunningly framed in gilt (22 1⁄2 x 25 inches overall).

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CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL

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.

SIGNED First English Edition Set (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)

$9,500 #204006

Leatherbound First English Edition Set (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)

$4,500 #204575

This is a signed Zaehnsdorf binding by the legendary London-based Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (author of The Art Of Bookbinding) in cognac-colored full-oasis leather. The endpapers are marbled and elaborately gilt tooled, all edges are gilded, the spines gilt lettered in six compartments with raised bands. The contents are fine and unfoxed, the spines are modestly sunned.

The books were very slightly trimmed for binding. A historic piece of work.

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This very good set, in unclipped dust jackets, is SIGNED in ink: “Winston S. Churchill� on the front free endpaper of Volume I. The dust jacket of Volume I has darkened a bit with age, but is otherwise quite vivid, with a noticeable wrinkle at the spine head and creases along the front flap, as well as very light scattered foxing. The remaining dust jackets are all marvelously bright and clean. The books are in handsome condition, with crisp bindings, bright red cloth and unfaded topstains. The contents are fine, with scattered foxing to the fore-edges only.

A lovely signed set.

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inston Churchill finished exactly 537 paintings. They are relatively easy to count; nearly all of them still reside at Chartwell, his home, hanging on the walls of the house itself or in his painting studio, stacked carefully in corners or filling purpose-constructed nooks from floor to ceiling.

“Silver Life”

An Original Oil Painting by Winston Churchill

1930s

It is rare for one of these paintings to leave Chartwell. Those that have, generally departed as gifts presented by Churchill himself, who sometimes gave them away but never sold a one. His family inherited them all, in various groupings, but have mostly left them where they are.

“Silver Life” is a striking stil-life, painted at Chartwell by Churchill in the 1930s; his so-called “Wilderness Years.” Out of power, out of office and increasingly out of money, Churchill clung to Chartwell, writing articles and books there in a frenzy to pay the bills, while painting to preserve his sanity.

“Silver Life” comes to us directly from a member of the Churchill family. The three objects depicted in it are two silver lidded vases with ladles – the work of Mappin & Webb, circa 1915 – and a lidded ashtray of indeterminate date. This past summer the vases were on formal display at Chartwell.

To appreciate this painting up close is to marvel at Churchill’s unexpectedly tactile impasto technique, the lustrous physicality of his brush strokes, particularly the glittering yellows of light reflecting off the silver pieces.

Mary Soames wrote about her father’s affinity for still-life. “Forced indoors by the weather, he would look around him for subjects. Members of his family or friends would advise, or hurry to help him compose a ‘paintatious group.’ It might be a ‘bottlescape like the one that hangs in the dining room at Chartwell…or a study in silver…”

David Coombs, our foremost authority on Churchill the Painter, the compiler of Churchill’s catalogue raisonné, has written of “Silver Life: By any objective standards, this painting is a splendid example of ‘Modern British Art.’ That it is by Winston Churchill may come as a surprise to many – but not to those who, in recent times especially, have come to appreciate the real quality of his best work.

Mr. Coombs notes the ineffable influence here of the artist William Nicholson, who lived at Chartwell as a more or less permanent houseguest during the period in which “Silver Life” was painted.

Nicholson was “a peerless master of still-life painting,” Coombs writes. “Which being said, ‘Silver Life’ is, in its characteristic dash and verve and decided inclusion of a diaphanous curtain, representative in every way of Churchill’s own and very best work.”

All true. But something else is striking about “Silver Life” up close. There is a storminess to the background strokes in the gold and brown of that curtain and an unsettledness to the sky blue, shot through with melancholic tones of violet. There is also much black in the silver. The gold daubs struggle mightily to burst through, glimmers of sunshine in a rich moody canvas. Could “Silver Life” be a painting of Churchill’s tortured psyche in the mid-1930s and his determination to triumph over his troubles and glitter once more?

You decide.

Please Inquire for Price – #204852 Provenance: The Studio, Chartwell; Arabella Spencer-Churchill (1949-2007); By Direct Descent.

(19 7⁄8 x 14 inches)

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“LET US GO FORWARD TOGETHER” Framed Vintage British WWII Propaganda POSTER

Circa 1941 $3,500 #8084

A very rare wartime original of this legendary, much-reproduced poster, featuring a steadfast Churchill posed against a bomber-filled sky. Produced by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, these posters (221⁄2 x 141⁄2 inches) were originally printed on very cheap, thin newsprint stock. This one has survived admirably, 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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