Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 456pp. Previous owner's name to front paste down, spine of dust jacket sunned, jacket price clipped and chipped at edges
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: [Post-War Churchill Speeches] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 456. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles and decoration to spine. With the deep red dust-jacket designed by Samuel H. Bryant, priced at $5.00. Light toning and spotting to edges. Light rubbing and chipping to jacket edges. Less common that the UK equivalent, and rarely seen thus with an unfaded jacket. Near fine. The third volume in Churchill's 'Post-War Speeches' series, containing some sizzling numbers on Korea, NATO, Europe, and Socialism on the eve of returning to power in 1951.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete 6 volume set, with dust jackets. Very good books in very good to good dust jackets. All dust jackets in very good to good condition, some with minor chips and small closed tears, and some small spots, mostly noticeable on the back; now in new removable protective covers. Red cloth covered boards, with gilt print in black box on spine and front. Pages are clean and unmarked, with a touch of soiling on the bottom edges on some volumes. Houghton Mifflin / Book-of-the-Month Club hard covers, with dust jackets, 1948 - 1953, 784 + 751 + 903 + 1000 + 748 + 800 pages. 8vo (5.75" x 8.5") Each volume has many maps and a complete index. The six volumes are: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy. Note that, due to the size and weight of this set, INTERNATIONAL AND EXPEDITED SHIPPING IS NOT AVAILABLE. Ships with Signature Confirmation.
Seller: Basically SF Books, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Winston Churchill. IN THE BALANCE Speeches 1949 and 1950. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$159.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards. Light bump at spine heel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. In the Balance. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1952.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: This is a collector-worthy copy of the U.S. first edition, only printing of the third of Churchill's five volumes of post-war speeches. This first American edition is considerably scarcer than the British edition; only 2,000 copies were issued, in contrast to 8,200 copies of the British counterpart. Though the U.S. edition was issued using British first edition sheets, it is distinctly different in appearance, bound in a medium brown cloth with a dark red dust jacket. The dust jacket is the major weakness of the U.S. edition, as it proved exceptionally vulnerable to spine fading. This copy is fine in a very good plus dust jacket. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original "$5.00" front flap price, with only fractional losses to spine ends and corners. We note only slight color shift between the red front face and spine. Minor wear to extremities and hinges and soiling to the white rear face are more than compensated by the bright shelf presentation. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. The volume beneath is excellent. The binding is square, clean, and tight with sharp corners. The contents are bright and crisp with no spotting and no previous owner inscriptions. The book feels unread. In the Balance includes 58 speeches and broadcasts delivered between 26 January 1949 and 14 December. Having done so much to win the Second World War, Churchill faced frustration of his postwar plans when his wartime government fell to Labour in the General Election of July 1945. In the Balance was published in England on 18 October 1951, just a week before the Conservatives won the General Election, returning Churchill to Downing Street on 26 October 1951 at the age of 76. Interestingly, this American edition was not published until 22 April 1952, well after Churchill returned to power, since before then the publisher lacked confidence in the U.S. market appeal of another volume of Churchill's speeches. Befitting a Leader of the Opposition, Churchill's speeches address a wide range of domestic and foreign issues, including devaluation of the British Pound, the General Election of February 1950, the Korean War, and establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By this time, the political experience that underpinned Churchill's postwar oratory was unrivaled. Member of Parliament for half a century, Churchill was beginning his sixth consecutive decade serving in a British Cabinet. Perhaps nothing better speaks to Churchill's truly singular experience than his 31 March 1949 speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (at pages 40-51), where he gave a tour de force survey of the period 1900-1945 that is - characteristic of Churchill - both incisive and lyrical: "In 1900 a sense of moving hopefully forward to brighter, broader, easier days predominated. Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together in the history of the world. but it is not in the power of material forces in any period. to alter the main elements in human nature or restrict the infinite variety of forms in which the soul and genius of the human race can and will express itself." Fittingly, in 1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in part " for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."Reference: Cohen A255.2, Woods/ICS A130(b), Langworth p.302.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.