No. XXXI
Churchill at Chartwell ✦
2011
CATALOGUE
FRAMED CHURCHILLIANA
• THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL IN FIRST EDITION WITH
1900 ••
OriginalVanity Fair PRINT by “Spy”
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E L C O M E to our new
catalogue of Churchilliana – a word that is all encompassing and wholly invented, allowing
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Vintage CARICATURE by “Nibs”
us to share with you all manner of wonderful vintage objects relating to Winston Churchill. Nothing suits these objects better than to be placed in a flattering frame. And so, we have assembled this catalogue of superbly framed Churchilliana, our first such catalogue in 27 years of existence. Within you will also find, once again, First Edition copies of every book that Winston Churchill wrote, most in the finest condition imaginable. We continue to Image: 9 x 14 1 ⁄4 inches F Framed: 16 1 ⁄ 2 x 22 inches
The first and most famous Vanity Fair Churchill print of them all, a caricature by Leslie Ward (who signed himself “Spy”) that appeared 27 September 1900, just after Churchill’s return to England following his headline-making escape from the Boers, and just before Churchill’s first General Election as the Conservative candidate for Oldham. The print ran as part of a profile headed, “Men of the Day,” written by Vanity Fair’s founder, Thomas Gibson Bowles, who signed himself “Jehu Junior.” Of the 24-year old Churchill, Bowles wrote: “He can write and he can fight...He is something of a sportsman; he prides himself on being practical rather than a dandy; he is ambitious; he means to get on and he loves his country. But he can hardly be the slave of any party.” Matted and elegantly framed. (#11200) $1,650
offer virtually everything relating to Winston Churchill. The entirety of our inventory may be viewed on our website: www.churchillbooks.com. As ever, enjoy. Chartwell Booksellers Cover: See page 3.
Image: 11 x 17 inches F Framed: 17 1 ⁄ 2 x 22 inches
This rare color chromolithograph of Churchill as President of the Board of Trade was drawn by the artist Frederick Drummond Niblett, who worked under the nome de plume, “Nibs.” It was published as a supplement to Throne and Country magazine on 19 September 1908. “Nibs” was later responsible for the well - known second caricature of Churchill that appeared in Vanity Fair in 1911. This particular early likeness does not turn up in any of the standard reference works. The print is matted and smashingly framed. (#287) $1,250
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CARD GAME “Puppet Peers” with Original Artwork
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH of Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill
Framed: 30 x 43 1 ⁄2 inches overall
An extraordinary vintage piece of political satire: a card game called “Puppet Peers” consisting of 52 cards (6 suits), each caricaturing a noted political figure of Winston Churchill’s early political life, including Asquith, Lloyd George, McKenna, Macdonald and, of course, “Lord Winnie.” The object of the game (a simple form of Whist) is to successfully collect a cabinet of “No. 10’s.” The cards (51 in all, with one Asquith lost) and the original rule book are here individually laid out surrounding the original artwork for each caricature – a group of delightful ink drawings – all beautifully framed in a Mission-style oak frame. (#288) $2,500
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A vivid, oversize candid photograph of Prime Minister Baldwin and his Chancellor of the Exchequer in conversation at the cabinet table near the end of their tempestuous formal association as P.M. and C.E., during the last year of Baldwin’s government. Taken on 15 April 1929, the day Churchill delivered his fifth and final budget to Parliament, the expression of bemused skepticism on Churchill’s face says it all. The image has been laid onto a vintage card mount that Baldwin and Churchill SIGNED in ink: “Stanley Baldwin” and “Winston Churchill.” This marvelous photograph belonged to Baldwin and the provenance is by direct descent. Overmatted in linen and framed in gilt. (#16342) $16,500
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Image: 10 3 ⁄4 x 18 1 ⁄4 inches F Framed: 28 x 30 inches
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Original Ink CARICATURE by “Low”
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Original Battle of Britan Portrait PHOTOGRAPH by Cecil Beaton
Image: 4 3 ⁄4 x 9 inches F Framed: 10 x 14 1 ⁄2 inches
This marvelous, undated, original caricature of Winston Churchill is executed in black ink on drawing paper and is SIGNED: “Low,” with the additional ink notation: “Winston C.” Sumptuously framed in brass.
(#13831) $3,500
Image: 16 x 20 inches F Framed: 21 x 24 inches
A rare original gelatin silver print of this legendary portrait of the Prime Minister taken by Cecil Beaton in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street in the wake of the Battle of Britain on 20 November 1940. The print, stamped “Cecil Beaton Photograph” on the verso, along with penciled catalogue numerals, reveals its age in light surface creases and foxing but is in very good condition overall. It is here matted with a vintage album page SIGNED in ink by Winston Churchill and various R.A.F. Battle of Britan fliers. Framed in a most stately, stepped Art Deco frame. (#16557) $3,500
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DAVID LOW was the most influential cartoonist and caricaturist of his generation, with over 14,000 drawings produced over the course of a fifty year career. Born in New Zealand, Low worked for a variety of publications in Australia and New Zealand, including New Idea, The Sydney Bulletin and The Canterbury Times, before moving to Britain in 1919. After joining The Evening Standard in 1927 as their first political cartoonist, Low’s cartoons for the Standard were regularly syndicated to 170 journals internationally. In addition, he drew for a wide range of publications, including Graphic, Life, Colliers and The New Statesman, creating such memorable characters as the TUC carthorse, the Coalition Ass and Colonel Blimp. Low described himself simply as “a nuisance dedicated to sanity.” His favorite subject was Winston Churchill, whom he captured indelibly from a variety of perspectives, including this one-of-a-kind, quintessential image.
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1941 ••
Rare R.A.F. POSTER with Printed Signatures
1942 ••
World War II SIGNED CANDID SNAPSHOT PHOTOGRAPH
Framed: 20 x 12 inches
This striking, original wartime poster was produced by “No. 915 County of Warwick Squadron, Royal Air Force” in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent fund. It features the printed signature of Winston Churchill, dated by Churchill: “April 19, 1941,” and the then-exiled Czech Prime Minister Dr. E. Benes. Three excerpted quotations are prominently displayed, two by Churchill (“Finest Hour” and “The Few”) and one by Oliver Cromwell. The poster is exceedingly rare and in excellent condition, with the usual folds, else fine. It is here vividly preserved, floated on 4-ply museum board, in a frame of welded brass. (#15824) $1,850
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A singular signed souvenir of the war: two original snapshot photographs of Winston Churchill visiting in August 1942 the Abbassia Barracks in Cairo, headquarters for Britain’s Eighth Army in the Middle East. The snapshots are affixed to an album page, with inked notations “L[eft]: P.M. Churchill & A.C.M. Brooke. R[ight]: P.M. Churchill & ACM Tedder. Ab[b]assia 1942.” The photograph on the left, with General Alan Brooke (who also appears in the background of the photo with Air Marshall Tedder), has been SIGNED in ink: “Winston S. Churchill” across the lower portion of his image. The snapshot page is here matted and handsomely framed in black walnut. Winston Churchill visited the Eighth Army in Cairo twice during the month of August 1942, on his way to and back from his meeting with Stalin in Moscow. Abbassia was a huge garrison with shops, churches, cinemas. It even had an internal bus service. All the barracks had been built by the Turks during their occupation before the First World War and were renamed by the Allies after their victory.
(#11782) $4,500
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Image: 3 x 4 inches F Framed: 11 x 14 inches
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1943 ••
SIGNED and DATED Portrait PHOTOGRAPH as Prime Minister by Walter Stoneman One of the most powerful photographs of Winston Churchill ever made, an image with the gravitas of Karsh’s classic “Angry Lion.” The photographer, Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), regularly photographed Churchill for the portrait firm J. Russell & Sons. Working this time for the National Photographic Record, Stoneman, sensing the historical significance of the sitting in the Cabinet Room at Downing Street, recorded not just the date but the hour that his picture was taken: “3pm 1 April 1941.” On that date Churchill was awaiting word of Germany’s invasion of Yugoslavia. Decrypted German Enigma messages had not only enabled him to predict Germany’s Balkan plans, they had revealed to him, what he called, Germany’s “magnitude of design” against it’s ally, Russia. As a result, Churchill made the dangerous decision to send a personal message of warning to Joseph Stalin. It was a message that Stalin would choose to ignore. Reputedly, a copy of this photograph was kept by Stalin on his desk in the Kremlin. Stoneman also presented a copy to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. This print is SIGNED and dated on the mount in ink: “Winston S. Churchill, 1943.” There is light diagonal soiling in a limited area across the top of the photograph and between Churchill’s hands. There are also two faint dents in the print, on Churchill’s right lapel and in a blank area to his left. The print is otherwise in beautiful condition. It is here spectacularly framed in a linen mat. (#13051) $16,500 CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL 8
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Image: 6 x 8 inches (on 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inch card mount) F Framed: 21 x 24 inches
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1944 ••
World War II TYPED LETTER SIGNED as Prime Minister
1945 ••
COLOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH by David Waddington
Letter: 7 1 ⁄4 x 9 1 ⁄2 inches F Framed: 17 1 ⁄2 x 23 inches
In the wake of the Cairo conference, with planning for Operation Overlord (D-Day) just heating up, Churchill suffered two mild heart attacks. On December 27, 1943, he flew with his wife Clementine from Carthage to Marakesh for three weeks of rest.
(#10352) $10,000
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Image: 8 x 10 inches F Document: 13 x 18 inches Framed: 16 x 21 inches
A marvelous Churchill rarity produced for the joint benefit of the U.S. Army Air Forces Aid Society and Royal Air Force Charities as part of the R.A.F Color Portrait Project. This rare photograph was taken by David Waddington while serving in the R.A.F. as an Airman. Waddington was released from duty to shoot Churchill at his London home. Churchill wore the uniform of Air Commodore, Royal Air Force for the sitting and was so pleased with this image, he ordered five prints of it for presentation. The print offered here was produced concurrently with Churchill’s own five and is identical to them, save for a fundraising message from Churchill printed beneath the image. It is handsomely framed on an open mat in cherry wood. (#10955) $975
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On embossed letterhead of the Prime Minster, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, dated: “New Year, 1944. Dear Captain Strecker, I wish to send you my warmest thanks for the services rendered by the Military Police during my stay in Marakech… I would be obliged if you would convey this expression of my appreciation to the officers and men, both uniformed and in plain clothes, who are employed under your command. Yours very truly, Winston S. Churchill.” The letter is in very good condition, very lightly foxed, with a file hole-punch at the upper left corner that has been professionally sealed. The letter has faded a bit with age but is quite lovely. It is here matted and superbly framed with a handsome vintage press photograph of Churchill taken during his convalescence.
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1946 ••
ENGRAVED MEZZOTINT from the Painting by Oswald Birley
1949 ••
SIGNED COLOR PRINT of A Portrait Painting by Douglas Chandor
Print: 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inche F Framed: 15 1/2 x 18 inches
Print: 18 x 24 inches F Framed: 26 x 35 inches
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This superb full-color mezzotint reproduction of Oswald Birley’s famous 1946 painting of Winston Churchill was produced by and for The (London) Times Publishing Company. The print is in very good condition and is here matted and gorgeously framed in cherry wood. (#10794) $950
This portrait formed a pair with one of Clementine Churchill painted by the celebrated English portraitist Douglas Chandor in 1948. The image was featured on the cover of Time magazine that year and the original painting was purchased by Bernard Baruch for $25,000 and presented by him to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 1960. This mounted color print is SIGNED and dated in ink: “Winston S. Churchill, 1949” on the mount. It has been matted in a linen-faced beveled mat and luxuriously framed in gilded Art Noveau style. (#14005) $8,500
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SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH by Vivienne This classic official formal portrait photograph of Churchill as Prime Minister in the 1950’s was taken by the photographer Vivienne. It has been SIGNED on the mount: “Winston S. Churchill ” in a shaky hand that was characteristic for Churchill in his declining years. The print is here sumptuously framed and mounted with the typed presentation transmittal letter that accompanied it, on 26 Hyde Park Gate letterhead, dated 26 January 1962: Dear Mr. Palmer, Sir Winston Churchill has asked me to send you the enclosed signed photograph with his very good wishes. The portrait of Lord Randolph which you gave him continues to be a source of pleasure to him. Yours sincerely, Anthony Montague Browne Private Secretary
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“TEA IN THE GARDEN” by Sarah Churchill
Print: 9 1 ⁄2 x 12 inches F Framed: 16 x 18 inches
This lovely, evocative image of Winston Churchill comes from a limited edition suite of color lithographs executed circa-1970 by Churchill’s daughter, Sarah. The scene herein depicted, according to Sarah Churchill’s surviving sister, Lady Mary Soames, is of their father cosseted with Wendy Reves, his devoted friend and then-wife of his literary agent Emry Reves, during one of Churchill’s many visits to the Reves’ home, La Pausa, at Roqueburne in the south of France. According to Lady Soames: “Sarah was always a favorite guest there and she would have sketched the scene. My father stayed a good deal with the Reves between 1955 and 1958.” A portion of this image is reproduced in Sarah Churchill’s memoir, A Thread In The Tapestry. This is an Artist’s Proof from a limited edition of 175. It is lettered in pencil: “A.P. Edition 175.” Handsomely framed in oak. (#15823) $975
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Image: 4 x 5 1 ⁄2 inches F Framed: 14 x 25 inches
The recipient was one Wallace Morley Palmer of Cringleford, who had turned over to Churchill as a birthday present a vintage oil portrait painting in his possession of Churchill’s father, Lord Randolph, according to a news clipping preserved here.
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1981 ••
Original Masterpiece Theatre POSTER “Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years” The
COMPLETE WORKS OF
WINSTON CHURCHILL
1898-1961 IN FIRST EDITION
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Framed: 30 x 46 inches
This is an original First Printing of the promotional poster for Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, an eight-part Masterpiece Theatre production. These posters were distributed to the national press and PBS stations but they also reached millions on the bus shelters of New York City. Although now discontinued, they remain highly collectible. (#16559) $1,250 16
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
1898
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) $7,500 #10103
This is a very good copy of the First State (as per bibliographer Ronald Cohen). The spine is a bit age-darkened and a trifle worn at the head but the gilt spine lettering is bright. The rear publisher’s catalogue is present, dated 12/97, and there are no errata slips. (Frederick Woods’ 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, however, generally mean an earlier state than copies with 3/98 catalogues.) The first folding map has left some slight offsetting to the facing page; there are no tissue guards on any of the maps, nor do there ever appear to have been. The frontis portrait tissue guard is present. A handful of pages remain uncut, including the title page and dedication page. Page 9 has been awkwardly cut. Contents otherwise fine, with only the barest browning to the prelims.
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. 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
This is an extraordinarily beautiful set, the blue-black cloth uncharacteristically clean and fresh, the gilt lettering unusually bright, the binding especially square and tight. There is scattered light foxing throughout, more pronounced at the prelims, but overall this is as fine an example of this proud, perishable two-volume tome as may be found. Preserved in a very handsome purpose-built slipcase of recent vintage. CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL
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Bibliographic numbers (in parentheses) are from Frederick Woods’ 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).
THE RIVER WAR
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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) $2,250 #14225
This is a superior copy, with blue cloth and gilt lettering that are especially fresh, contents fine, entirely unfoxed. Spine joints are very faintly rubbed and there is a neat, vintage owner inscription on the front free endpaper, as well as a tiny bookshop label partially removed from the rear pastedown. Otherwise, immaculate. A very desirable example of the rare, true first edition.
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. The American edition is an unadorned, though still handsome, red cloth binding with gilt lettering.
First English Edition (Cohen A4.1.a) (Woods A4a) $1,850 #14234
This is an unusually handsome copy with bright cover art and a spine that is neither faded, darkened, nor 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. Contents fine.
First English Edition (Cohen A3.2.a) (Woods A3ba) LD $3,500 #14229
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First American Edition (Cohen A4.2.a) (Woods A4ba) $650 #11767
This is a very good copy, cloth and gilt brilliantly fresh and bright, spine a touch faded but far less so than is common with this book. Contents fine and unfoxed, no maps misfolded. There is a discreet owner initial ink stamp on the front free endpaper, else fine. A beautiful example.
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A virtually mint copy. The green cloth and the gilt typography fairly gleam. There is a faint hint of roughness to the cloth at the lower corner of the front board, if only by comparison to the flawlessness of the rest of the book. The binding is square, the contents immaculate, with a tiny, almost imperceptible debossed stamp of W.R. Smith, London booksellers on the upper corner edge of the black front free endpaper. It is actually a charming ornament to this uniquely fine copy of a book rarely seen in fine condition.
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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
This is a particularly beautiful copy. The cloth is fresh, the gilt lettering and spine lightly faded but unworn. The binding is tight and the corners are sharp. The contents are fine, with a former-owner name in ink on the front free endpaper and the half-title oddly trimmed of an upper half-inch, not affecting the printed title itself. Strikingly wellpreserved overall.
First Canadian Softcover Edition (Cohen A8.3[?]) (Woods A5cb) $5,000 #14434
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.
First English Edition Presentation Set (Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a) $2,000 #14410
The title pages of both volumes here are embossed: “Presentation Copy” with a circular blindstamp. 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. Externally, it is in fine shape, the cloth vivid, the spines unfaded, the gilt bright, the bindings 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.
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This first Canadian issue in wrappers does not appear in Woods or (can it be!) in Cohen’s new bibliography, though Langworth does include it in his Connoisseur’s Guide. Like the Canadian Ladysmith edition it was produced from American edition sheets, bound in a very attractive crossed-flag design that is superior to the plainly bound English and American first editions and even slightly different from the Canadian clothbound issue’s cover, with a facsimile Churchill signature added. Though the spine here is loosening and the binding and covers, as one may imagine, are extremely fragile, this is a very good copy overall, clean and wholly intact, with a short, closed tear to the upper left corner of the prelims, not affecting any text. In fact, this may very well be the lone copy in wrappers extant. It is the copy that Langworth referenced for his Guide entry.
1906
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
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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 A18.1) (Woods A9)
Please Inquire for Price #14349 This is without question the rarest Churchill book available today. The front cover here has triangular losses at each corner, as well as some surface chipping, but is attached and intact. It has also darkened with age and there is a faint pencil marking visible near the publisher’s name. The spine has fragmented but is also entirely present. Though published blank, it has been hand-lettered in nowfaded ink: Free Trade–Churchill, M.P. The rear cover (advertising Mr. Brodrick’s Army) is brighter and less worn. The binding is intact and the contents are fine, clean and unfoxed. The title page is stamped: Reference Dept-The National Union-10 Apr 1906.
First American Edition (1977) (Cohen 10.3.a) (Woods A6c) Contemporary facsimile reprint. A virtually mint copy. $95 #14238 24
Big game hunting on the Dark Continent 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 English Edition (Cohen A27.1) (Woods A12aa)
$1,850 #10858
This is 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 purposebuilt red cloth slipcase.
First American Edition (1909) (Cohen A27.6) (Woods A12ab) $1,250 #14436
A beautiful copy of the second issue (as per Cohen), with an undated cancel title page stating: Hodder & Stoughton, New York and London. 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. CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL
MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY (1903)
1908
MY AFRICAN JOURNEY
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LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
1909
Churchill’s first widely-published hardcover collection of political speeches, expressing “radical” liberal views that were quite advanced for his time, prefiguring the modern welfare state that Churchill and David Lloyd George would set in motion. Though the burgundy clothbound English edition was handsomely produced, with Churchill’s signature in gilt across the front board, the American edition, similarly bound but without the gilt signature, is rarer. Increasingly scarce in either edition.
First English Edition (Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a) $1,450 #16318
This is a very good copy. The spine has darkened ever so slightly with age but the cloth and gilt remain 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 An absolutely beautiful copy of the far rarer American issue, one of only 465 copies produced. The cloth and gilt are exceptionally fresh, bright and unfaded, the binding is pristinely 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.
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 In his new Churchill bibliography, Ronald Cohen reveals that this hardcover 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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THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
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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 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.
First American Edition Set (4 of 6 in dust jackets) (Cohen A69.1) (Woods A31aa)
This is a strikingly beautiful set, the latter four books in their original, exceedingly rare, unprice-clipped dust jackets. Volume 1 has dulled along the spine, as per usual with this book. It is otherwise in excellent condition, square, tight and unfoxed. Volume 2 is the binding variant of the First Edition/First Printing, as per Cohen (A69.1[II].b). Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) are in their original dust jackets, which are crisp and clean, with an inch of loss
at the spine head of Part I. Volume 4 (“The Aftermath” ) dust jacket is lightly edge-chipped and has darkened significantly at the spine. The front and rear faces are otherwise fresh and bright. There is a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the lower corner of the front free endpaper. Volume 5 (“The Unknown War” ) jacket is near-fine. All volumes, by virtue of their jackets are in spectacular condition, inside and out. Laid-into Volume 1 is a vintage mailer, dated 1923, from Machin’s Tailored Shirts of Los Angeles, addressed to “Mr. Geo S. Patton, San Gabriel, Cal.” General George S. Patton (Jr.) was born in San Gabriel, California and grew up there. His father was George S. Patton (II), so it is more than likely that this volume, if not the entire set, belonged to the father and was read by his son, a voracious student of military history at a young age.
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.
First English Edition without Dust Jacket (Cohen A91.1.b) (Woods A37a)
$1,750 #14266
This is the less common Second Binding state (per Cohen) in smooth pink cloth, with the variant five-line title block on the cover. The boards, front and rear, are fresh and bright. The spine is far less faded than usual with this book and is unworn. Contents unfoxed and absolutely fine, with some roughly cut pages and a map after page 166 that is a bit chipped. Otherwise a beautiful example of this variant binding.
First American Edition (Cohen A91.2.a) (Woods A37b) $1,850 #14039
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 clean and unfoxed, the binding square and tight. An excellent jacketed rarity. CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL
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$11,500 #2210
1930
MY EARLY LIFE
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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 by collectors.
First English Hardcover Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A92.1.a) (Woods A38)
$10,500 #10333
1932
THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
A terrific anthology of Churchill essays and magazine articles from the 1920’s and early-1930’s on a wide variety of subjects. Issued in the U.S. under the title, AMID THESE STORMS.
First English Edition without Dust Jacket (Cohen A951.a) (Woods A39a)
$950 #14411
This is a very good copy, without the dust jacket, virtually mint, save for a short, half-inch closed tear to the lower front hinge and a previous owner name in ink on the front free endpaper, dated “Christmas 1932.” The cloth, binding, gilt lettering and contents are all impeccably fresh. Unique thus.
First American Edition in Dust Jacket
(Cohen A95.2) (Woods A39b)
A very good, near-fine copy in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket, which is in beautiful condition, though neatly priceclipped. The dust jacket faces, front and rear, are bright and crisp. The dust jacket spine is mildly faded, as is common with this book, but less so than usual, with a short closed tear at the head but no edge-chipping. The book itself is in ravishing condition, the cloth a brilliant salmon pink, front to back, including the notoriously fade-prone spine. There is a tiny bookshop sticker on the rear pastedown, else fine. Laid-in is a marvelous vintage Scribner promotional insert: “These Famous Authors Have Written New Books For You.” Winston Churchill and Amid These Storms share a page with Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon.
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This is an extraordinarily fine copy of the exceedingly rare hardcover First Edition, in the even scarcer dust jacket. The jacket 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 otherwise is remarkably bright and fresh on both front and rear panels, and moderately faded along the spine. The book itself is pristine and appears unopened, the cloth a brilliant orange, contents fine. As precious and rarely seen as any volume in the Churchill canon.
$2,250 #14393
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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.
The Deluxe SIGNED Limited First Edition (Cohen A97.1.a) (Woods A40a)
$20,000 #14373
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.
First English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A105.1.a) (Woods A43a) $5,000 #14406
This is a very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket that is simply beautiful, a rich, bright orange, almost imperceptibly darkened, almost entirely unfaded, marred only by a one-inch seam of loss along the front fold. The book itself is mint, as if just-published. A role model.
First American Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A105.2.a) (Woods A43ab) $1,150 #14283
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One of the marvels of the Churchill canon. This is one of only two publisher’s leatherbound Churchill first editions ever produced (the other being the presentation binding of The Second World War), and the only one that was issued signed. Bound in full dark orange Niger by Leighton Straker, this is number 101 of 155 copies SIGNED by Winston Churchill. All volumes are in very good condition, the leather unfaded, stamped in gilt with the Marlborough crest on the upper boards, gilt lettered on the spines in six compartments with raised bands. Top edges are gilt, and the endpapers are marbled. The original card slipcases are not present.
A very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which is unclipped and in beautiful condition, bright and clean, with approximately one-quarter inch loss 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, else fine. The book is itself absolutely mint, save for a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front free endpaper.
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ARMS AND THE COVENANT
1938
Churchill’s initial alarms against Hitler and the Nazis are collected here in 41 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.
First English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A 107.1) (Woods A44a) $2,500 #11755
This is a very good copy in the very rare dust jacket, which has lightly browned along the edges, more severely so along the spine, but otherwise maintains its pale blue luster. The upper dust jacket edge is chipped here and there, with fractional loss at the spine head and along the upper spine fold. Internally, the dark blue cloth boards are uniquely fresh and unfaded, even along the notoriously problematic spine. There is faint scattered foxing and very light toning to the prelims, with a discreet owner initial ink stamp on the front free endpaper, else fine.
First American Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A 107.2.a) (Woods A44b) $2,000 #14518
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 English Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A111.1.a) (Woods A45a) $1,350 #15309 OLD
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A very good copy in the rare and extremely perishable dust jacket, which is unclipped but moderately darkened with age, as per usual, with slight edge-chipping and a short closed tear at the upper edge of the front face. The book itself is in lovely condition, the green cloth boards are square, the gilt is bright. The contents are fine, clean and unfoxed, though the front and rear free endpapers have been faintly toned by the dust jacket flaps. A beautiful copy overall, here preserved in a handsome quarter-blue leather cloth solander, elaborately gilt tooled on the raised spine in six compartments.
First American Edition in Dust Jacket (Cohen A111.2) (Woods A45b) $750 #14945
A very good, nearly fine copy in the rare dust jacket, which is in astonishingly fresh condition, unclipped, bright, and virtually unfaded. There is an almost imperceptible loss of color along the spine and some very faint edge-chipping, else fine. Contents fine, as well. Unique thus; as if preserved in a vault.
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An extremely handsome copy of the exceedingly scarce First American edition in the very rare dust jacket, which is price-clipped and somewhat faded along the spine, as well as lightly edge-chipped, but otherwise is unworn. There is a previous owner name and date discreetly inked on the front pastedown and the embossed seal of another former owner blindstamped on the front free endpaper and half-title.
1939
STEP BY STEP
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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 English Edition Set in Dust Jackets Complete in Seven Volumes (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66-A114)
$1,500 #3115
This is a very good set in dust jackets that are correct and unclipped, exhibiting varying degrees of wear. Contents of all volumes are in near fine condition. (See our website listing for complete details). An extremely handsome set of hardy wartime survivors, preserved in a purpose-built slipcase of burgundy cloth.
THE POSTWAR SPEECHES
1948-61
Five postwar speech compilation volumes were published, beginning with THE SINEWS OF PEACE in 1948 (late-1945-1946 speeches, including the legendary Fulton, Missouri “Iron Curtain� speech); EUROPE UNITE in 1950 (1947-48); IN THE BALANCE in 1951 (1949-50); STEMMING THE TIDE in 1953 (1951-52); and THE UNWRITTEN ALLIANCE in 1961, the final collection of Churchill speeches, covering the years 1953-1959. This book appeared in England only and is perhaps the rarest of the postwar speech volumes.
First English Edition Set Complete in Five Volumes (Cohen A241-A273) (Woods A124- A142) $1,650 #9757
This is 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, all others are not. Contents of all volumes are especially clean and unfoxed, save for ink gift inscriptions on the front pastedown of In The Balance and on the front free endpaper of The Unwritten Alliance. A fine set overall.
First American Edition Set Complete in Four Volumes First American Edition Set in Dust Jackets $2,000 #10273
A very good set of the four volumes published in the U.S., here 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 spine of In the Balance is significantly sun-faded and carries a small, discolored library mark. Cloth bindings of all four 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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A complete set of the far rarer First American editions in their extremely handsome dust jackets, which are all in excellent condition and, with the exception of the final volume, are unclipped. The dust jackets all exhibit very modest edge-chipping and some fractional losses. (See our website listing for complete details.) Contents fine. A first rate set, similarly slipcased.
(Cohen A241-A264) (Woods A124-A137) $850 #15385
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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.
THE GATHERING STORM
INSCRIBED by Churchill to his Daughter, Mary,
and her New Husband
(Cohen A240.1[I-VI]) (Woods A123aa) $45,000 #16069
othing in the realm of Churchilliana is more precious than a First Edition inscribed by Winston Churchill to a member of his immediate family. Here is one such prize, a First American edition copy, in dust jacket, of THE GATHERING STORM – the premiere volume in Churchill’s six-volume history of the Second World War – inscribed to his youngest daughter, Mary, and to her then-new husband, Christopher Soames, in ink on the front free endpaper: “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 age-darkened, is intact and unclipped. The book is preserved in a stunning, purpose-built, quarter-burgundy leather clamshell solander. MARY SPENCER-CHURCHILL (today, Lady Mary Soames) was 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. “I should like to have your narrative of the Battle as you saw it with the Cold Stream,” Churchill wrote to Soames on 11 November 1948, “...I send you a few papers from my own secret file...These you might look into... to refresh your memory.” THE GATHERING STORM was published in the United States 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, commencing with “Papa’s” post-World War I career “After 1918,” and concluding with the “General Election of June 1935.”
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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.
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Our “MAN OF THE CENTURY” Lithograph
American Reprint Edition (2002) SIGNED by Lady Mary Soames (Cohen A242) (Woods A125)
$200 #11569
A mint copy of the recent Levenger Press boxed reissue. It has been SIGNED by Winston Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames, at the end of the Foreword that she contributed. A lovely book, beautifully produced, with ten full-color reproductions, including the frontis. Without dust jacket, as issued.
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 re-issues and abridgements abound.
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(Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a) $1,650 #16329
This is an exceedingly handsome set rebound in threequarter crimson Levant leather over red cloth. The binding features the Churchill rampant lion as a decorative motif, gilt tooled and lettered spines in six compartments with raised bands. The contents are fine and unfoxed.
Print: 13 x 13 inches F Framed: 16 1 ⁄2 x 16 1 ⁄2 inches Our own tribute to Winston Churchill as Man of the [20th] Century, from a portrait sketch executed by the German artist Alfred Kloke, signed and dated, “Kloke/ Berlin 1948,” reproduced by Chartwell Booksellers in an elegant offset lithograph, headed: “Winston S. Churchill – Man of the Century.” Limited to 500 numbered copies. Matted and smartly framed in black walnut. Available unframed: $350. (#10756) $500
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Wedgwood PORTRAIT MEDALION
Medallion: 4 1 ⁄2 x 6 inches F Framed: 6 x 8 inches Commissioned in 1964 by Thomas Goode & Co. of South Audley Street, London, to mark Churchill’s 90th Birthday and his Honorary Citizenship of the United States award, this marvelous medallion came to be regarded as a memorial tribute after Churchill died within two months of its issue. Modeled by Arnold Machlin, it is far rarer than the subsequent 1974 issue, which commemorated Churchill’s 100th Birthday. This is a mint example, mounted on gold velvet, as issued, elegantly framed open-faced and unglazed in gold. (#11786) $1,000 OLD
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