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The World Crisis: Sandhurst Edition

$400 – Woods A31(c) , Cohen A69.8, Langworth p.117
1,354 copies of this special privately-printed Sandhurst Edition were issued. The work is an abridgment of the five volume first edition of 1923-31.

La Seconda Guerra Mondiale

$350 – First Italian Edition of Churchill’s The Second World War
Published by Mondadori in 12 volumes with colorful dust wrappers.

Second World War: Folio Society

$225
6 Vol Set by Winston Churchill: The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring, Triumph and Tragedy.

The Dream by Winston Churchill: Levenger Press

$100
This short story written by Winston Churchill in 1947 and reprinted with permission of Churchill College, Cambridge. Originally entitled. “Private Article,” first published in 1966.

The Dream by Winston Churchill – Original Proof Copy

$600 – Langworth p358-9. Original Proof Copy
Full green leather by Robert Hartnoll Ltd. This limited Edition of Churchill’s book, The Dream, were gifts for Churchill family members at the 120th Anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston.

Churchill War Speeches

$400
The War Speeches of Winston S. Churchill (Easton Press Leather Bound, 3 Vol Set). A mint set, as new, in original shrinkwrap, bound in full green leather.

The River War: Eyre & Spottiswoode

$200 – Woods A2d, Cohen A2.4.e
English Abridged One-Volume “Cheap” Edition (Fifth Printing). A very good copy in complete dust jacket…

The River War: Winston Churchill

$350 – Cohen AA1
Rebound From the Centenary Collected Works. 1973-1975 (WSC Books had these rebound from the original sheets in 1994)

The River War – Eyre & Spottiswoode

$300 – Woods A2d, Cohen A2.4.f
Author: Winston Churchill. English Abridged One-Volume Edition (Fifth Printing). A nice copy of this 1951 “cheap edition” with complete unclipped dust jacket.

The Unknown War (The Eastern Front)

$1000 – Woods/ICS A31(e), Cohen A69.10, Langworth p.120
First printing in the Keystone Library of The Unknown War (Eastern Front). This Keystone Library Reprint was sold new at a reduced price of 5/- instead of the 21/- for the first edition. The content is identical. Far scarcer than the first editions.

Collected Works of Churchill (34 vols) & Essays (4 vols): 38 vols

Cohen AA1.1-34
38 vols total: The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 vols) + The Collected Essays (4 vols). FINE CONDITION

Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill

$125 – Woods A123cb, Cohen A240.9.b
First American Abridged Edition. Churchill’s account of the war condensed into a single volume, with the addition of a new epilogue written by Churchill detailing the years 1945 to 1957, for which he was paid the impressive sum of £20,000.

The American Civil War, PROOF COPY

SOLD
$300
Author: Winston Churchill. Cassell, London, 1961. Bound in light green card covers marked PROOF ONLY with publication date and selling price. Plates and index are present.

Europe Unite, Cassell 1950

SOLD
$195 – Woods/ICS A128(a), Cohen A246.1
Winston S. Churchill. Contains 52 speeches by Winston Churchill from January 31st, 1947, to December 10th, 1948. First edition rebound in full red Morocco, all edges gilt.

My Early Life – Proof Copy

$350
Proof copy of Volume I of The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. 1973. Subscribers uncorrected proof copy, sent out to initial subscribers. This copy was sent to N.H.Buckley as a sample of the quality of the production, to be returned to The Library of Imperial History.