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$125 – Woods B36, Cohen B75.1. Foreword by Churchill. First Edn.
An autobiography by an ‘old soldier’ with tales of adventure from all over the world. The “gown” refers to his later years as Master of Peterhouse at Cambridge. Churchill served with Birdwood in the Boer War…
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$150 – Woods B36, Cohen B75.2, Foreword by Churchill
An autobiography by an ‘old soldier’ with tales of adventure from all over the world. The “gown” refers to his later years as Master of Peterhouse at Cambridge. Churchill served with Birdwood in the Boer War…
$5,500 – Signed by Winston Churchill. Woods A37(b2), Cohen A91.2.b
First American Edition, second printing (1930) signed “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill” (in ink on the flyleaf) along with a previous owner’s signature. A vg+ copy in original dust jacket, protected in a full red Morocco book like solander case…
$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…
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$850 – Woods A37a.6, Cohen A91.1.h
Thornton Butterworth. First edition, 6th printing London, 1940. Bound like the last Keystone Library edition in pale lilac cloth, gilt stamped on spine. Complete original dust jacket which is unique to this 1940 printing with a red half tone full head and shoulders portrait of Churchill.
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$950 – Woods/ICS A4a,
Cohen A4.1.a English 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.
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$650 – Woods/ICS A4(bb), Cohen A4.3.a, Langworth p.56. First Canadian Edition
Pictorial cloth boards with crossed Union Flag and White Ensign on the front cover and a red fleur-de-lis on the spine. 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.
$475 – Woods/ICS A4a, Cohen A4.1.a, Langworth p.55. English First Edition. New Impression.
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.
$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.
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$125 – Two 1930’s Blackwood Magazines + Signed Book by A. Haldane. Zoller B213
3 related items pertaining to Haldane’s escape from Pretoria where he was imprisoned with Winston Churchill. 2 issues of Blackwood’s Magazine featuring the story in 2 parts, in 1900. The accompanying book is Haldane’s autobiography.
$5,000 – First Canadian Soft Cover Edition
This softcover edition does not appear in Woods or Cohen but it is in Langworth’s Connoisseur’s Guide. A rare item…
$1,800 – Woods A5
Copp Clark Company, Toronto, 1900. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover
$1,200 – Woods A5.ca, Cohen A8.2, Langworth p.61.
The U.S. 1st Edn. Scarcer than the British 1st Edn. with its 5000 copies.
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$3,500 – Winston Churchill’s signature + 9 others
This page of signatures (all dated 1900) is from the Visitor Book at Groote Schuur in Rondebosch, Cape Town, which belonged to Cecil Rhodes from 1893. Additional Signatures: Prince Alexander of Teck, Prince Adolphus of Teck, Laycock, Grosvenor, White, Cambridge, Amery, Grosvenor, Milne.