All Books, Pamphlets & Leaflets
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PLEASE NOTE:
All Books includes Winston Churchill plus other authors.
Books by Churchill includes books of Churchill’s Speeches.
Books Signed include all signed books, primarily Winston Churchill but others, including F. M. Montgomery, Martin Gilbert, Randolph Churchill etc.
Books Signed & Inscribed are a subset of All Books.
Contributions includes books with a Foreword, Introduction, Eulogy etc. written by Winston Churchill (typically Woods / Cohen B items)
The River War by Winston Churchill
$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.
Savrola ( German Translation)
$100
Winston Churchill’s only major fictional work. Published in Switzerland for the German language market in 1948 by Hallwag, Bern.
The Royal Naval Division
$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.
A Roving Commission (My Early Life)
$175 – ICS A37c.3., Cohen A91.5.c
Author: Churchill, Winston S. Scribners, NY, 1941. Second American issue (From first American edition plates), third printing (1941). With the Dorothy Thompson introduction and index.
Secret Session Speeches
$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.
Savrola: First American Edition
$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…
Great Contemporaries: 1st American Printing
$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…
Solander Case for My African Journey
$100
Maroon cloth covered Solander Case for the pulp paperback edition of My African Journey. Cohen A27.8
My African Journey by W. Churchill
$1000 – Woods A12b, Cohen A27.8
Hodder & Stoughton, London, nd (1909), paperback.This cheap edition produced in the style of a pulp paperback featuring a new setting: text in two columns.
The River War by Winston Churchill
$2250 – Woods/ICS A2da.2, Cohen A2.4.b
An Account of the Re-concquest of the Sudan. English Abridged One-Volume “Cheap” Edition (Second Printing) in the rare Dust Jacket
Marlborough by W. Churchill in French
$180
Sa Vie et Son Temps. The French translation was issued only in 4 vols in decorative card covers, size about 5.5 x 8 inches, with maps, with legends in French.
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 World Crisis: Winston Churchill
$250 – Woods A31, Cohen A69.15
The World Crisis 1911-1918, 4 Vol Set. Odhams Press, London, 1949. Contains the complete unabridged text of the original four volumes with the revisions and new material from the 1931 abridgement. Books are crisp and unworn in dustjackets…
Savrola – by Winston Churchill
$275 – Woods A3c, Cohen A3.5
An early “pulp” style reprint of Churchill’s novel. Printed on cheap pulpy paper which browns over time, ads at each end, in illustrated paper covers printed red and blue.
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.
The Churchill Legend
$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…
Churchill: My Early Life (“Notes on Chosen English Texts” series)
$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.
Exchange of Letters: Churchill & De Gaulle
$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.
Churchill’s Published Letter to Anthony Wedgwood Benn
$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.
My Early Life by W. Churchill: Odhams Press
$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…
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 Churchill: Reprint Society of Canada
$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.
Their Finest Hour
$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.
My Early Life by W. Churchill: Macmillan, 4 Printings
$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.