$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.
$600 – Zoller 162
The author, Francis Neilson, best known for his massive 6 vol set The Tragedy of Europe is very critical of Churchill and his war memoirs. Neilson claims to have known Churchill since 1900 or so…
$125 – Zoller 209, Redburn 156
From the “Notes on Chosen English Texts” series. For advanced English students, with detailed explanation of terms, study guides, and questions for each chapter.
$600 – Cohen A129, Cmd. 6220: 2 identical copies available
Exchange of Letters Between The Prime Minister and General De Gaulle Concerning the Organisation, Employment and Conditions of Service of the French Volunteer Force. HMSO Pamphlet. English text on left page, with French translation on the opposite page.
$125 – Woods A141, Cohen A271: 1 of 2 available copies
Published Letter from Winston Churchill. This single side letter dated 9 April 1955 on Chartwell stationery was published to show Churchill’s support for Tony Benn’s attempt to renounce his peerage.
SOLD
$75
Memorias Da Minha Juventude, My Early Life – Portuguese Edition: 1948, Translator’s presentation copy – Translator’s Presentation Copy – to the Editor of the Lisboa Newspaper “Diario de Notacias”- dated 12-X-1948
$200
9 Postcards / Photos from 1946 & 1948 of Winston & Clementine Churchill with the Dutch Royal Family. All but one feature Winston Churchill. Taken at Soestdijk Palace: the home of Princess Juliana & Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld together with their 4 daughters: Beatrix (b. 1938), Irene (b. 1939), Margriet (b. 1943) and Christina (1947-2019).
$200
Odhams Press, London, Postwar reprints, new setting, 373 pages, index, photos, maps and plans. Bound in bright red cloth, red page edges, decorated with gilt and black panels. Five different printings…
$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.
SOLD
$100 – Woods A37fb, Cohen A91.10.b
Book in Dustjacket. Montreal, Reprint Society of Canada, first Canadian edition second state (1948), Similar to the English reprint Society issue. A modern rarity, far scarcer than first editions.
$40 – Woods A37fa, Cohen A91.10.a
Montreal, Reprint Society of Canada, first Canadian edition second state (1948). Similar to the English reprint Society issue. A modern rarity, far scarcer than first editions.
$150
A collection of Churchill’s speeches published in Canada in c1941 by a group of 3 newspapers in Saskatchewan. 80 pp, green and orange card covers. Intended to be the first of a series but canceled due to copyright problems. See Woods p90.
$250
4 books: My Early Life A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill, Macmillan Edition. Set comprises of 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th printings from 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 resp.
$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.