$950 – Woods A2(db), Cohen A2.5
In 1933 a new edition was issued in England and, for the first time, in the U.S.A. with a new introduction by the author, Winston Churchill. Cohen reports only 1040 copies of this edition issued.
$425 – Woods B10, Cohen B30.1 Introduction by Winston S. Churchill
This regimental history features a nine-page introduction by Winston Churchill who, as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914 was closely involved with the creation of the Royal Naval Division and its World War I service in France.
$80 – ICS A114ab, Cohen A227.1
Hardcover in dustjacket. The American Edition was published a month before the English edition, so is the true first. A new publisher in a somewhat unattractive edition, bound in plain grey cloth, but it is the true first.
$1000 – Woods A3a, Cohen A3.1.a
Winston Churchill’s Only Major Fictional Work. First American Edition. Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd. [New York], 1900. Dark blue cloth. A very good copy…
$350 – Woods/ICS A43ab.1, Cohen A105.2.a
First American Printing, hardcover, in unclipped dust wrapper. Biographical essays on 21 contemporaries of Winston Churchill. Includes photo plate of each subject…
$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.
$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.
$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.
$50
The Reprint Society, London, 1944. A nicely produced edition for members of this book club. Smaller than firsts at 5″x7.5″. Bound in cream cloth, titles in shiny gilt on a black spine label.
$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.
$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.
$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…
$400
The 3rd Keystone Library printing of Churchill’s autobiography. The same setting and binding style as the first edition, but cloth is a lilac shade, and the front cover lacks the titling.
$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…
$800 – Cohen A91.3.a, Woods A37a
February 1934, First English Keystone Library Edition (First Impression) Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]. A near fine copy in dustjacket…
$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…
$100 – Cohen B105.1
Issued by the Borough Council of Wanstead & Woodford in 1948: Includes facsimile letter from Churchill dated 20 May 1947. Pictorial card covers, 84 pages and folding street plan in the rear
$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. No.66 of 100
$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.
$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.