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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 319 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait. This is a satisfactory reading copy, rebound in library buckram, with library markings including classification number at foot of spine, library endpapers, cancellation stamps at front endpapers and at rear pastedown, and a few other standard but inoffensive library markings. Binding worn but sturdy, cup-ring at front panel; front inner hinge cracked, a few random markings in pen and pencil, else contents good. 660 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Spine gently sunned. Bottom corner rear cover with minor bump. Portrait frontispiece of the author. This is the American edition of "Thoughts and Adventures", a series of twenty-three essays on a wide variety of subjects. 320pp. A very clean copy. Woods A39(b). Size: Medium Crown Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Amid These Storms, Thoughts and Adventures By The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1932. First U.S. Edition (only printing) with Dust Jacket, 320 pp, 8.5 x 6", 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket shows the most wear with a large chip to tail of dust jacket's spine "er's" in Scribner's is lacking. Top edge of dust jacket exhibits small chips, title still legible. Red bordering on dust jacket's spine moderately dulled, but on front cover remains bright. Scuffing along dust jacket's creases, general toning to white rear cover and flaps. Red cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering soiled, but still legible. Finger soiling or scuff marks visible on rear board's red cloth. Text-block lightly toned around edges of leaves, but is otherwise clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) first editions for which the U.S. edition bears a different title than the British. The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It bears a full length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front cover. A First (and Only) U.S. Printing with RARE intact Dust Jacket! Churchill even says, ."although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written." RAREA1932FPQB 03/24 - HK1352
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard bound in dust jacket. First US Edition. There was only 1 print run of the US edition of this title with no Scribner's "A" printed on the copyright page. Damp staining to red cloth boards and end pages. Lengthy pencil inscription to front free end page. Some wear & fading to dust jacket that shows chipping to edges. RARE!
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1120.76 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, of this collection of essays musing on Churchill's career, his hobbies, the First World War, politics, and the future. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. The collection was first published in Britain under the title Thoughts and Adventures on 10 November 1932; the US edition appeared on 25 November. The change of title was because the US publisher deemed "Thoughts and Adventures" dull - the replacement was proposed by Churchill. they feared "Amid These Storms" may be thought to refer to the Great Depression and consequently put a photograph of Churchill from his service in Flanders in 1916 on the front cover. Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Cohen A95.2; Woods A39(b). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Unclipped jacket with slight wear at extremities and couple of patches of neat tape repair on verso, spine a little sunned but brighter than usual; a fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Amid These Storms. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: This is an unusually clean, jacketed example of the U.S. first edition, only printing. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The content ranges from personal and political musings to prescient speculation on the future. The original front flap blurb encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized his book thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Published in the Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S. edition bears a different title than the British. The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It bears a full length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front face. The orange color on the dust jacket and the red-orange binding proved exceptionally prone to sunning. Further, both the coarse cloth binding and the white fields of the dust jacket proved quite susceptible to soiling. Jacketed copies are scarce and truly bright copies are a rarity; most copies look like they spent time in the trenches with Churchill.Here is an impressively clean, near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The red-orange cloth binding is not only square and tight, but also vividly bright and clean. We note only hints of shelf wear and soiling to the edges and a miniscule white blemish at the spine center. The contents are likewise impressive, strikingly clean with no spotting and no previous ownership marks. Even the untrimmed fore edges and bottom edges are immaculate and there is only mild dust soiling to the top edges. The endpapers show differential toning corresponding to dust jacket flaps, corroborating what the bright binding already testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. The unclipped dust jacket retains the original $3.50 front flap price, even though it has been inked out, presumably by a previous bookseller. While certainly not fine, the jacket is both a substantially complete and impressively clean example. There is light wear to extremities, fractional loss to the spine ends, and modest spine toning. Nonetheless, the white portions of the jacket are far cleaner than we usually see and shelf presentation is quite respectable, the orange color sunned but still appreciably orange in hue. The dust jacket is protected with a removable, clear, archival cover.Reference: Cohen A95.2, Woods/ICS A39(ba), Langworth p.158.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 319pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, very near fine, with a faint tidemark to the bottom corner of the rear board, not affecting any of the interior. Else lovely. In a very good dust jacket, sunned as always on the spine, with a few shallow chips to the spine ends and corners, but no loss to text. A pleasing copy of this first American edition (the only printing--collectors will note that unlike most Scribner titles, the first printing of this title did not bear an "A" or the Scribner seal. The book was not reprinted in the US, so this is the first and only U. S. printing). The book was published in England as "Thoughts and Adventures."
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Amid These Storms. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: This is a strikingly clean, jacketed example of the U.S. first edition, only printing. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The content ranges from personal and political musings to prescient speculation on the future. The original front flap blurb encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized his book thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written." Published in the Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S. edition bears a different title than the British. The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It bears a full length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front face. The orange color on the dust jacket and the red-orange binding proved exceptionally prone to sunning. Further, both the coarse cloth binding and the white fields of the dust jacket proved quite susceptible to soiling. Jacketed copies are scarce and truly bright copies are a rarity; most copies look like they spent time in the trenches with Churchill. Here is a remarkably clean, fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The red-orange cloth binding is not only immaculate and vividly bright, but also square and tight with sharp corners. There is no appreciable wear or soiling. Searching for flaws, we note only a mild hint of toning to the bottom edge of the spine. The contents are equally impressive, strikingly clean and bright with no spotting and no previous ownership marks. Even the untrimmed fore edges are virtually pristine, with just a hint of trivial dust soiling to the top edge. The unclipped dust jacket retains the original $3.50 front flap price. There is light wear to extremities, fractional loss to the corners, and modest spine toning. Nonetheless, the white portions of the jacket are far cleaner than we usually see and shelf presentation is quite respectable. The dust jacket is protected with a removable, clear, archival cover. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A95.2, Woods/ICS A39(ba), Langworth p.158.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: This jacketed example of the U.S. first edition, only printing belonged to legendary Hollywood filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille; his distinctive bookplate, affixed to the front pastedown, is the sole previous ownership mark. Superlatives may fail to fully encompass the culture and industry-defining influence of Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959). DeMille was a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry, one of the most commercially successful producer-directors of his time, and one of the most influential filmmakers in history. Between 1914 and 1956, he made seventy feature films. In addition to his film credits and his own indelible presence in the industry, DeMilles films created numerous iconic Hollywood stars. He also implemented numerous, industry-defining institutional, organizational, logistical, and technological innovations. DeMille was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the institution which continues to set standards of excellence in the film industry DeMille helped create with its annual Oscars Awards.DeMille reportedly had an enormous and exceptional library. In 1924, noted French artist Paul Iribe (1883-1935), who was recruited by and collaborated with DeMille in Hollywood, designed DeMille's bookplate, featuring a phoenix. Like DeMille, this books author proved no stranger to iconic fame. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S. edition features a different title than the British. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience.The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission, but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It features a full-length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front face. The orange color on the dust jacket and the red-orange binding proved exceptionally prone to sunning. Further, both the coarse cloth binding and the white fields of the dust jacket proved quite susceptible to soiling. Jacketed copies are scarce and truly bright copies are a rarity; most copies look like they spent time in the trenches with Churchill or, as might imaginatively be the case here, on an exotic set with a director.This copy is very good in a good dust jacket. The red-orange cloth binding is square and tight with only minor blemishes and soiling. The volume and its jacket have clearly spent life together, evidenced by sunning to the spine head in the exact shape of the dust jacket loss. The binding is otherwise bright and unfaded. The contents are clean, mildly age-toned but with no spotting. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the dust jacket flaps, with additional offsetting from DeMilles bookplate; these further indicate both that this book has spent life jacketed and that DeMilles bookplate is original to the book. The dust jacket is neatly price-clipped, shows loss at the upper spine and lesser chipping to the spine ends and flap fold corners, and features two instances of inscrutable notation in red on the front face. Nonetheless, it is a respectable example, the orange spine panels only mildly faded, retaining strong hue and good shelf presence. The dust jacket is protected with a removable, clear, archival cover.Reference: Cohen A95.2, Woods/ICS A39(ba), Langworth p.158
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Amid These Storms. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: This is a splendidly clean jacketed U.S. first edition, only printing by far the cleanest example of the dust jacket we have ever offered. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S. edition bears a different title than the British. The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission, but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It features a full-length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front face. The orange color on the dust jacket and the red-orange binding proved exceptionally prone to sunning. Further, both the coarse cloth binding and the white fields of the dust jacket proved quite susceptible to soiling. Jacketed copies are scarce and truly bright copies are a rarity; most copies look like they spent time in the trenches with Churchill.This copy is just strikingly, improbably bright and clean. The dust jacket is just magnificent a trifecta of complete, clean, and bright. When we acquired it, the jacket was housed in an ugly, ancient dust jacket protector, which did its job. The jacket is entirely complete, unclipped with the only loss being two tiny holes, one a the mid rear joint and one in the lower folds of Churchills trench coat on the spine. Both losses virtually disappear beneath the newly-fitted clear, removable, archival cover. Truly mild wear is confined to extremities, the worst being a little wrinkling at the spine head. Moreover, shelf presentation is splendid, the orange panels showing only the slightest color shift. Finally, the white fields of the jacket, so often grubby, are beautifully bright and clean. We note a faint, unobtrusive moisture stain at the upper rear panel, a touch of soiling along the extreme bottom edge of the front panel, and a little glue residue transfer browning at the center edge of the flaps from the old dust jacket protector truly a small price to pay for the jackets overall condition. The book beneath approaches near fine. The binding is square, tight, and beautifully bright and clean, as only jacketed copies can be. The contents are only mildly age-toned, with some transfer browning to the endpapers from the old dust jacket protector. Barely detectable spotting appears almost entirely confined to a handful of blank inner fore edge margins. The untrimmed fore edges actually appear quite clean, a touch of light soiling and dust evident only to the top edges.Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The content ranges from personal and political musings to prescient speculation on the future. The original front flap blurb encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized his book thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.2, Woods/ICS A39(ba), Langworth p.158.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Amid These Storms. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: This is the finest jacketed example of the U.S. first edition, only printing we have encountered. Published in Britain as Thoughts and Adventures, this is one of the few Churchill first editions for which the U.S. edition features a different title than the British. The U.S. first edition text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition, but everything else about the edition differs markedly from its British counterpart. The bright red-orange coarse cloth binding of Amid These Storms matches the style of the 1930 U.S. first edition of A Roving Commission but the dust jacket for Amid These Storms is strikingly unique. It features a full-length photo of Churchill in Flanders in 1916, wearing his French Poilu's helmet. This image appears on both the spine and front face. The orange color on the dust jacket and the red-orange binding proved exceptionally prone to sunning. Further, both the coarse cloth binding and the white fields of the dust jacket proved quite susceptible to soiling. Jacketed copies are scarce and truly bright copies are a rarity; most copies look like they spent time in the trenches with Churchill.This copy is gorgeously clean, better than near fine, in an impressively bright and complete dust jacket. The red-orange cloth binding is not only square and tight with sharp corners, but also vividly bright, both the gilt and hue undimmed, the coarse cloth improbably clean. The contents are nearly as impressively bright, with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. The otherwise clean untrimmed fore edges show only mild age-toning and the top edges just a little shelf dust. The unclipped dust jacket retains the original "$3.50" front flap price and shows only fractional loss at the flap fold and spine extremities. The orange spine panels are as bright as we have seen, with only barely discernible color shift between the faces and spine. The jacket is also uncommonly clean, the white panels showing only trivial hits of soiling. Wear is minor, primarily confined to tiny chips, wrinkles, and closed tears to the jackets perimeter. While not perfect, this jacket is likely as good as it gets - a markedly clean, substantially complete, and beautifully bright example. The dust jacket is protected with a removable, clear, archival cover.Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The content ranges from personal and political musings to prescient speculation on the future. The original front flap blurb encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized his book thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.2, Woods/ICS A39(ba), Langworth p.158.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.