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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

$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

$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: Reprint Society 1944

$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.

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

$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)

$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: 3rd Keystone Printing

$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.

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 Early Life by Winston Churchill: 1st English Keystone

$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…

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…

It Happened Here: Civil Defence in Wanstead & Woodford WWII

$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

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. No.66 of 100

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

$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.

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+

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: W. Churchill

$22,500 – Signatures of Clementine & Winston Churchill. Cohen A267.1, Woods A138(a)
4 Vols. First editions, First impressions by Winston Churchill with numerous letters, Christmas cards & telegrams. Inscribed & signed by Churchill in 3 vols. 2 signed letters.

The War Speeches: First English Edition

$1,250 – Woods A136a, Cohen A263.1[I-III].a
3 Vols. A very good set of the first English Edition Set of Churchill’s War Speeches in dust jackets. Cassell, 1951 – 1952.

Winston Churchill’s Thoughts and Adventures

$6,250 – Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Cohen A95.1.a. Langworth p156
A FINE copy of the First Edition with a FINE dust jacket of Winston Churchill’s book, Thoughts and Adventures. Printed in London in 1932 by Thorton Butterworth. 1st Edn. Housed in a protective clam-shell box.

Marlborough: Harrap + Signed Letter, Winston Churchill

$8,000 – Signed by the Publisher: George Harrap. Signed Letter from Winston Churchill. Woods A40(a), Cohen A97.2(I-IV).a
Marlborough 4Vols First British Edition, First Printing in Dust Jackets.

Marlborough: 1st English Edn, Inscribed by Churchill

$24,000 – Inscribed & Signed by the Author: Winston Churchill
Marlborough: His Life and Times by Winston S. Churchill. First English editions, First printings in dust jackets, Inscribed by the Author, Winston Churchill

Liberalism and the Social Problem, Churchill

$16,500 – Signed by Winston Churchill. Woods A15, Cohen A20.1.a
Liberalism and the Social Problem. First Edition by Winston S. Churchill. Contains speeches by the young liberal Winston Churchill. Protected in a quarter blue leather clamshell book like box with gilt titling…

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