The American Civil War, PROOF COPY

The American Civil War, PROOF COPY

$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.

The People’s Rights: Winston Churchill

The People’s Rights: Winston Churchill

$1850 – Woods/ICS A16(ab), Cohen A31.2.b
Hodder & Stoughton, London, (1910). This is a first English softcover edition second state with two appendices and no index. Protected in a full red Morocco Solander case with gilt title to spine.

Step by Step: W. Churchill

Step by Step: W. Churchill

$600 – 1st American Edition. Woods/ICS A45b. Cohen A111.2
Published two months after the First Edition and about a week before war broke out. The first American edition is a larger production, although it lacks the folding map of Europe.

My Early Life by W. Churchill: 1st English Edn

My Early Life by W. Churchill: 1st English Edn

$15,000 – Woods A37(ab) Cohen A91.1.b
First Edition, Second State with dust jacket. A very good + copy with the original very scarce dust jacket which has some spine fade but is better than most copies I have come across in 50+ years of collecting.

My Early Life by W. Churchill: Odhams 1965

My Early Life by W. Churchill: Odhams 1965

$60
This 1965 Odhams impression introduced a new binding style:
 Boards – smooth bright red cloth, blocked gilt and black. All edges-stained red.
 Dustjacket – unique for this 1965 printing. White with red and black printing, unclipped.

My Early Life by Churchill: 1st American

My Early Life by Churchill: 1st American

$175 – Woods A37(b2), 
Cohen A91.2.b
A Roving Commission – My Early Life. Scribner: First American Edition, second printing (1930). A very good copy in a FINE reproduction dust jacket.

Mes Aventures de Jeunesse (My Early Life in French)

Mes Aventures de Jeunesse (My Early Life in French)

$150 – 1st French Edition
Payot, Paris, 1937. This first French edition was published in light green card covers, 359 pages, a few maps. A fine copy in the original glassine protection cover; pages are unopened…

My Early Life by W. Churchill: 1st Edn

My Early Life by W. Churchill: 1st Edn

$3500 – Woods A37(aa), Cohen A91.1.a. Langworth p.131; Woods A37(ab2), Cohen A91.1,d; Woods A37(ab3), Cohen A91.1.e; Woods A37(ab4), Cohen A91.1.f; Woods A37(ab5), Cohen A91.1.g; Woods A37(ab6), Cohen A91.1
Six impressions of the Thornton Butterworth First Edition of My Early Life, all with fine replica dustjackets. Great shelf appearance…

My African Journey – 1st Edn

My African Journey – 1st Edn

$6,000 – Woods A12, Cohen A27.3, Langworth p81
This is the rare variant First Edition with card wraps in custom full red morocco clamshell book-like box…

Wall Street: Histoire de la Bourse de New-York

Wall Street: Histoire de la Bourse de New-York

$200 – Not in Woods, Cohen B40
Wall Street: Histoire De La Bourse De New-York Des Origines A 1930. Contains a preface by Winston Churchill, which is not present in the English edition. Payot, Paris, 1930. Usual French card covers, 234 pages, index, large fold out graph at end. Protected in custom-made solander case…

The Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald Ford

The Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald Ford

$650 – Signed by the author: Gerald Ford
First printing of Ford’s address at the English-Speaking Union in London 1983: The Churchill Lecture. Deluxe Edition of 100 copies in custom clamshell box. #66 of 100

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria: Winston Churchill

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria: Winston Churchill

$550 – Woods/ICS A4(b), Cohen A4.2, Langworth p.55. US First Edition
This is the first of the two books Churchill wrote based on his newspaper despatches he sent from the front in South Africa. Ian Hamilton’s March (Churchill’s 5th published book) is the second book.

The Man Who Captured Churchill

The Man Who Captured Churchill

$90
Isak Heath, in his book, ‘The Man Who Captured Churchill- General S.F. Oosthuizen’ documents how he found proof about the capture of Winston Churchill during the Anglo-Boer War.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

$750 – Cohen A267.2. 4
The Educational Book Company Ltd, London: 1956-58. The Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of Churchill’s history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States.

My African Journey: 1st Edition

My African Journey: 1st Edition

$3,000 – Woods ICS: A12(aa), Cohen A27
First Edition. 1908. Hodder & Stoughton, London. Original bright red pictorial cloth with illustration showing hunter in safari gear (presumably Churchill). Housed in a custom-made matching red-maroon morocco book-like clamshell box with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. VG+