All Books, Pamphlets & Leaflets

The Largest Private Collection of Churchill Books, Churchilliana & Ephemera

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 – Eyre & Spottiswoode

$300 – Woods A2d, Cohen A2.4.f
Author: Winston Churchill. English Abridged One-Volume Edition (Fifth Printing). A nice copy of this 1951 “cheap edition” with complete unclipped dust jacket.

Proceedings of the International Churchill Society 1987

$150 – Zoller C521a. No 23 of 25
From the collection of Donald Carmichael with a letter from Richard Langworth thanking him for his charitable contribution.

Correspondence – W. Churchill to C. Conover: 1899-1943

$450 – From Mary Soames’ Library
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the author of the Preface, Richard Langworth: his inscription is on the front free endpaper. From Mary Soame’s library…

History of the English Speaking Peoples

$400
12 vol. set of HESP in a deluxe binding with blue leather spines over blue boards & gold stamping in red panels. Impressive shelf appearance…

The Unknown War (The Eastern Front)

$1000 – Woods/ICS A31(e), Cohen A69.10, Langworth p.120
First printing in the Keystone Library of The Unknown War (Eastern Front). This Keystone Library Reprint was sold new at a reduced price of 5/- instead of the 21/- for the first edition. The content is identical. Far scarcer than the first editions.

Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993

$400 – From Mary Soames’ Library
From the library of Churchill’s youngest daughter Mary Soames with her posthumous bookplate on the front pastedown. Contributions by Winston S. Churchill M.P. Baroness Thatcher, Edmund Murray (Churchill’s personal detective) & Martin Gilbert…

Churchill and Palestine (in English & Hebrew)

$250 – Redburn 325, Zoller A410
Churchill and Palestine 1939-1942 by Gavriel Cohen. Published in Jerusalem in 1976. English and Hebrew texts are bound into the same volume.

Canada and the War

$600 – Woods F131, Cohen D81.1
The Lord Mayor’s Luncheon in Honour of The Prime Minster of Canada. 1941. Includes address by The Right Hon. Winston Churchill. “Canada and the War”

Mr Churchill On The Peers

$900 – Woods A18, Cohen A33.1
From a letter to his Constituents, November 14th, 1910 by Winston Churchill. London: Liberal Publications Dept. Churchill was denounced as a “traitor to his class” for these words.

Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill

$125 – Woods A123cb, Cohen A240.9.b
First American Abridged Edition. Churchill’s account of the war condensed into a single volume, with the addition of a new epilogue written by Churchill detailing the years 1945 to 1957, for which he was paid the impressive sum of £20,000.

Prime Minister, W. Churchill: Statement Delivered to House of Commons July 29, 1941

$600 – Woods A75, Cohen A150.1.a
British Library of Information, 1941. NY. Protected in a hard bound, brown cloth covered chemise with title label to front & further protected in a ¾ brown morocco solander case with brown cloth covered boards, raised bands and gilt titling to spine.

Churchill Memorial: Belgo-British Union

$250
A scarce 32pp pamphlet/booklet in French on the unveiling of the Churchill Memorial statue by Princess Margaret on Oct. 4th 1967 together with a photo of Princess Margaret at this occasion.

The Menace of Land Monopoly

$175 – Woods A14c, Cohen A140.1.a
Striking Utterances by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. Melbourne, Henry George Foundation, 1941, Wartime reprint of Churchill’s speech at the King’s Theatre Edinburgh on July 17, 1909, & in the House on May 9, 1909.

Statements Relating To The Atomic Bomb

$60 – Not in Woods, Cohen F665
Statements relating to the atomic bomb, prepared before the change of government and issued by the new Prime Minister Clement Atlee and by Winston Churchill (3-page statement).

Peace Aims

$75 – Cohen D82, No mention in Woods
British Library of Information, 1941. British Official Statements Sept 2 1939-Sept 24 1941. Includes 11 statements or speeches by Churchill plus his photo on the cover. 32 pp plus card wraps.

Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom

$50 – Not in Woods or Cohen. Cmd. 6564
64-page pamphlet in paper wraps is full of tables and charts on the UK war effort. Produced “By Command of His majesty”, this is Cmd. 6564 and is presented by the Prime Minister.

Churchill By & About

$175
3 Vols: A Churchill Anthology, Churchill his Life and Times & Painting as a Pastime. A very nice selection of Winston Churchill’s works, and a work regarding his life, in publisher’s slipcase. Odhams 1962-1965

Winston Churchill 80th Birthday Presentation Fund

$250
The leaflet includes a letter to Churchill from the members of the Executive Committee which was comprised of Moynihan, Edward Martell, Malcolm Dunbar and Brian Goddard along with their contribution of £150,000, with Churchill’s reply to Lord Moynihan.

Churchill on India: Let His Past Record Speak

$100 – Redburn 59, Not found in Zoller
Seth, Hira Lal. Hero Publications, Lahore (which at that time was still in India), 1943-4. This 104-page book is highly critical of Churchill and his position on India. Hardbound in tan covers. Very scarce, in the usual poor condition of these books…

The RT. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

$50 – Redburn 55, Zoller A72
Subtitled: A Biography and Appreciation. Wartime biography, 52 pages, photos, brown wraps, with full text of the Atlantic Charter. Brown wraps, 32pp

Pamphlet: Winston Churchill Letter to Sir Algernon West

$125 – Cohen A289, Limited Edition: #124 of 200
This pamphlet, published by Glenn Horowitz, prints the text of an 1898 letter from Winston S. Churchill to Sir Algernon West written when Churchill was in India. With a handwritten card to the recipient from Glenn Horowitz laid in.

My Early Life – Proof Copy

$350
Proof copy of Volume I of The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. 1973. Subscribers uncorrected proof copy, sent out to initial subscribers. This copy was sent to N.H.Buckley as a sample of the quality of the production, to be returned to The Library of Imperial History.

Palestine – Includes Winston Churchill Letter 1921

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