Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Fair. Edges are rubbed, rear joint is cracked, and front free endsheet is detached. Spine is rolled, bumpy, rubbed and fraying. Endsheets and adjoining pages are a bit foxed. Brief pencil notes on rear of front free endsheet and half-title Green cloth with gilt lettering
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New impression, 9 preliminary pages, 345 pages, (publisher's advertisement leaf: The River War and The Malakand Field Force), fair condition in publisher's cloth, boards slightly stained, corners of boards and top and bottom of spine worn, edges of spine rubbed with repaired tear at the top of the left edge, edges of pages slightly spotted, pages spotted, preliminary pages and title page stained, hinges cracked.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$182.72 + shipping
Description: UK FIRST EDITION- SECOND STATE (NO DATE TO REVERSE OF TITLE PAGE), octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, ix + 345pp, VG (spine cocked, minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, light soiling & moderate chafing/surface loss to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: New Impression. Very Good Crown 8vo. Hardback in original dark green cloth (with a corner bump and rub to lower front cover) 345pps. + (ii)pps. ads. (Foxing to foredge and text)
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing, of Churchill's only novel, a melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. The US edition of February 1900 slightly preceded the UK edition, and this second printing followed soon after, newly clothed in "striking" red cloth (Langworth, p. 40) after its blue predecessor. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (ibid., p. 39). 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 A3.1.b; not in Woods. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white. Later 20th-century bookplate of George A. Brown to front free endpaper. Lettering a little abraded, contents a little toned with slight running crease at head. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$274.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second issue without the date on verso of title page. A good + copy in publisher's cloth. The cloth is a bit rubbed and frayed at the head and food of spine, 3 " split to lower joint, slight lean, with some light browning to the prelims. Small booksellers blind stamp to front end paper.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. ix, [1], 345, [1] pp., plus 22 pp. publ. catalogue. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (vry slght rubbng hd & ft of spine, crnrs, faint ink ownrshp mrkngs on half-title, frnt hnge just begnng to pull, vry slght foxng to mrgns of frnt pstdn), still a VG- clean copy. First edition, 2nd printing, of this adventure title of action and political intrigue in the manner of the Zenda novels. The revolution in Laurania, the speeches of the agitators, the street fighting, and more are all described with journalistic realism. This was Churchill's only novel, and although published third, was actually the first of his books to be started, when he began writing in 1897 pouring his developing theories of political philosophy into this present work.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dustwrapper, some bumping and minor shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, binding just starting to split at the page between the black free front endpaper and the half-title, which has a previous owner's name in pencil. Minor foxing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and front board all still bright, of this hard-cover book. A tale of revolution in a (fictitious) Mediterranean country, this was Churchill's only novel. This is the first UK edition, one of 1500 copies, published by Longman, Green & Co on 30th January 1900 (a larger {4000 copies} edition was published earlier in the US in November 1899). 345pp, 2pp adverts. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Winston Spencer Churchill. Savrola. Longman's, Green & Co., 1900.
Price: US$513.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1900 first British edition with the copyright details on the reverse of the front page. worn boards, split cloth at the spine, corners bumped and scuffed, foxing.
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. SAVROLA -First English Edition-. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First English edition. The green cloth has uniformly darkened and there is light edgewear. The gilt has faded somewhat. The binding is square and the contents are fine, with very scattered, light foxing throughout, more pronounced on the prelims. A former-owner's name in ink has been partially erased on the half-title. Overall, a solid example that does reveal its age. First English Edition [1 of 1500 copies] (Cohen A3.2.a) (Woods A3ba). 8vo (345 pages, including two pages of advertisements for ?Malakand Field Force? and ?The River War.? Dated 1900 on title page but copyright date [on verso] is 1899.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$609.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THE SECOND STATE WITHOUT THE PUBLISHED DATE TO REVERSE OF TITLE PAGE, PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST IMPRESSION, HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 X 5 INCHES WITH 9 + 345 PAGES + PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE. SOME FLECKS TO CLOTH BOARDS WITH SMALL AREAS OF FADING TO CLOTH SPINE & BOARDS, FEW FAINT CREASES TO CLOTH SPINE, ENDPAPERS BROWNED WITH LIGHT FOXING, VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING OR MINOR CREASE TO PAGES, PENCIL INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE COPY WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOK HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition, first state of the author's third book and only novel, printed from the sheets of the US edition which preceded it (following a delay caused by the serialisation of the story in 'Macmillan's Magazine'), and with the year of that US edition (1899) printed to the reverse of the title page (the second state omits this date). 8vo. 345pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements (for Churchill's 'The River War', second impression, and 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force', seventh thousand). Blue cloth with gold lettering to the spine and upper board. A little rubbing and wear to the edges, and some quite light chafing to the board margins. A trace of wear and fraying to the outer hinges. Some fox spotting throughout. A good bright copy of his only novel, depicting unrest and revolution in a fictional European state (in later life Churchill was less impressed with these early literary efforts, writing in his 1930 autobiography 'My Early Life' "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it".
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL Winston S.. Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. , 1900.
Price: US$673.40 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo., original green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. London, Longmans Green and Co. Second British issue from American plates, first printing, second state. ?Distinguished from first-state copies only by the presence of a title page cancellans on which the verso is blank? (Cohen). The American edition, in a printing of 4,000 copies, was published ten days earlier at a price of $1.25. Neatly recased, corners lightly rubbed, heavy foxing to the half title, title page, and preliminaries, with occasional minor foxing throughout. Cohen, A3.2.b.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. SAVROLA -First American Edition-. Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd., New York, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First American edition. The cloth remains a deep blue, the gilt lettering is bright. The corners are sharp, the spine is just a touch frayed at the head and tail and the lower front corner is crunched. The contents are fine and unfoxed, but the endpapers have been professionally replaced, front and rear. A very nice example, with that caveat, and priced accordingly. First American Edition (Cohen A3.1.a) (Woods A3a). 8vo (356 pages, plus a 24-page rear publisher?s catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Company, London, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill. Only 1,500 copies of the first British impression were printed and the survival rate is low, making this a great rarity and considerably more scarce than the U.S. first edition. Here is a first British edition, first printing. This is an honest first edition that shows some wear and age, but is original and unrestored. The binding is tight and unfaded with bright gilt, but slightly cocked. The green cloth boards are sound, but show a little wear, particularly at the corners. The spine shows light wear along the hinges, as well as some wear at head and tail with just a little fraying at the head. There is a small .25 inch tear above the title on spine. The original black endpapers are intact. The webbing shows a bit at the rear hinge, but the binding is still snug and sound. There is minor spotting throughout, as is common with this edition. The spotting is heavier at the endpapers. There are no bookplates or inscriptions. But interestingly, the ffep is signed "W. Churchill R.H." With a little hope and imagination, one could imagine that "R.H." is a young Churchill, recently elected to Parliament, pompously putting the abbreviation for "Right Honourable" after his name - However, this signature does not look to us like an authentic author signature. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A3.2.a, Woods/ICS A3(ba.1), Langworth p.41
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Company, London, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill. Only 1,500 copies of the first British impression were printed and the survival rate is low, making this considerably more scarce than the U.S. first edition. Here is a first British edition, first printing. This is a respectable, very good overall copy with some flaws. On the positive side, the green cloth binding is bright and unfaded, showing only light wear at the corners and spine extremities. Of particular note is the unfaded spine color. Detracting from the external appearance, the binding is slightly cocked - as are nearly all copies of this edition - and the texture of the spine cloth is slightly mottled. The contents are tight and retain the original black endpapers with no splits or gutter breaks, but there is intermittent spotting throughout and a previous owner name inked on the ffep. The fore edge of the text block also bears a small burn scar (likely an errant cigarette) affecting a .25 inch portion of the edges of pages 321 through 334. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A3.2.a, Woods/ICS A3(ba.1), Langworth p.41.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Description: First British edition, first impression, of Churchill's only novel, a melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. Savrola was the first book Churchill undertook to write and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's tale was originally serialized in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900; the British edition appeared on 12 February. This copy is in the second state, with the title page verso blank. Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the initial blank. 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 A3.2.b; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. Ownership inscription to initial blank of Herbert Lloyd (1842-1914) of Eastbourne, dated 28 February 1900, soon after publication; book label to front pastedown of the Faulkner scholar James B. Meriwether (1928-2007). Slight lean to spine, light rubbing at extremities, front inner hinge repaired, rear inner hinge a little tender, contents toned. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, London, Bombay, 1900.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First Edition, Full publisher?s decorative cloth, with gilt titles and ruling on upper board. Flat spine with gilt title. , Signature of previous owner in a neat hand on title. Savrola is a significant curiosity among the works of Churchill, as it was his only published fiction. It it therefore unique among his other works, which amount generally to memoirs and histories. Savrola was first published as a serial in Macmillan?s Magazine, and Churchill later resolved to put it out in in complete form. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister in history to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. , Size : 8vo (189x129mm) Very good condition, text clean.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Savrola. Longmans, London, 1900.
Price: US$942.76 + shipping
Description: (London: Longmans Green & Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York and Bombay. 1900). First UK Edition, First Printing, First State (integral title page with the print history and date on the title page verso thereof). 345 p[ages + 2 pages of ads at the rear. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and spine; Churchill's signature in gilt to the front board. Black end-papers. A VG (or better) copy with a few slight marks to the front boards, softening to the spine tips and just a touch of rubbing to the edges. The page block has sporadic foxing particularly to the early/late pages of the book (a common fault with this title). The binding is straight, firm and intact and the gilt lettering bright and there are no inscriptions or book-plates and no splits to the binding. A totally honest, unrestored copy in nice shelvable condition and a nicer copy than normally seen of Churchill's only novel. The UK first is considerably scarcer than its US counterpart and was issued in only 1,500 copies on February 13, 1900. Note this is the first state of the first edition. [The second state is different in that it has a title page cancellans with a blank verso]. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans Green & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: This well-worn survivor is a rare prize the first edition, first printing, Colonial issue of Winston Churchills only novel, far rarer than its U.S. or British first edition counterparts. Only 1,670 Colonial editions were issued in this illustrated hardcover binding - and this small number includes the second and third printings. The survival rate was poor given the tropical climates in much of the colonies. Those few examples that do survive are often quite worn and re-backed or re-bound.This is an original, unrestored copy, sound and complete though in poor condition, clearly having endured customary depredations of age and use. First printing is confirmed by the absence of the words "NEW IMPRESSION" on the title page. The binding is square and tight, though quite considerably worn, the cloth frayed along the hinges and extremities, the strikingly illustrated front cover scuffed, the blank rear cover scuffed and soiled, and with shallow loss of the cloth at the spine ends. The original swan and ship endpapers are intact, as are the original publishers advertisements for The River War and The Story of the Malakand Field Force following the text. The contents show only light, intermittent spotting. The colonial provenance is unequivocal; the sole previous ownership mark, inked on the dedication page, reads "Morabool Reading Society | No. 121, Aug. 1900". The Shire ofMooraboolis a local government area in Victoria, Australia. Light moisture staining is evident on the upper half of the dedication page and the succeeding blank right margins through page 49. The damage is modest and only cosmetic; there is no warping or other damage to the pages apart from the moisture staining. When Savrola was first published in February 1900, a very young Churchill was exuberant. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. His "Tale of the Revolution in Laurania" is a melodramatic tale of political intrigue in a fictional Mediterranean state. He would later make deprecating comments about his novel and it is perhaps instructive that he never wrote another. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point."It has been argued that, as a literary effort, Savrola gave "dramatic voice to Churchills mature philosophical reflections about his fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life." (Powers, Finest Hour #74) Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book or the literary merit thereof, the novel certainly provides an interesting insight into the early political perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill.Reference: Cohen A3.3.a, Woods/ICS A3(bb), Langworth p.42 Colonial issue of the first edition, first printing.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition in book form, first impression, first state. Savrola was Churchill's only novel, the first book he undertook to write, and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900, possibly as US law required a books with foreign authors to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. The British edition appeared on 13 February, with 1,500 copies printed, including 650 sets of sheets transferred from the Colonial Library issue, which were consequently given a cancel title with the verso blank. This copy is in the first state, retaining the copyright notice on the title verso. Cohen A3.2.a; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of Claude Churchill & Ethel Chidell, designed by G. M. McCall and dated 1909. Rubbed, light foxing to contents, still a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL Winston Spenser. Savrola, A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. , 1900.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo., original green cloth, lettered in gilt. London, Longmans Green and Co. 1500 copies were published on February 13th., 1900. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, the cloth pulled on spine in a couple of places, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.ix; [1]; 345; [3]. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark green oasis morocco over publisher's original gilt-titled cloth covers. Some light spotting, exterior as new. Near fine. Churchill's first and only novel. WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A3(b). Langworth.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Forward edge of front cover shows some a bit of rubbing of the green cloth, one small area front joint as well. Original black endpapers, intact. Some light foxong of half-title and title-pages, with occasional foxing through the text, usually peripheral. This novel was Churchill's only endeavor into fiction. 345pp. + 2 pages of adverts. Woods !3(b). Please see photos. Size: Crown Octav
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$1090.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, first state of Winston Churchill's only major fictional work, Savrola A first edition, first state of Winston Churchill's only major fictional work. With speeches of agitators and scenes of street fighting, the story follows the eponymous character as he attempts to lead a revolution against the dictatorial government of Laurania, a fictional European state. Described by Churchill himself as 'a thorough-going rip-roaring melodrama', the novel combines romance with scenes of political action. This is the first edition, first state of the novel, with the print history and date to the verso of the title page. Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Prior owners ink inscription to the half title, 'G. G. G. Glefonclan 10/7/00'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine, with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. The front endpaper is a little loose. Foxed to the front and rear of the book, and to the fore edge of the text block, but pages are otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition (which precedes the British first) of Churchill's singular attempt atÂfull-length fiction. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable in this condition, Churchill's only work of literature. Churchill's only major work of fiction, Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania describes events in the capital of Laurania, a fictional European state, as unrest against the dictatorial government of president Antonio Molara turns to violent revolution. Savrola is in many respects a traditional example of the "Ruritanian" genre, being published just four years after Anthony Hope's classic adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. The politics and institutions of Laurania reflect the values of England as Churchill experienced them; he began work on the novel on his voyage from England to India to take part in the Malakand campaign in August 1897.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Gilt rule front cover. Armorial book-plate signed in neat old hand, front free endpaper. Spine extremities very lightly frayed. Evidence of old newspaper off-setting rear endpapers. 1" x 1/2" tear top of pages 243-245. The true first edition of Churchill's only novel, preceding the Englisg edition by 3 1/2 months. 345pp. + 24-page catalogue at the end. A very clean copy through the text. Woods A3(a). Size: Crown Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.ix; [1]; 345; [3]. Elegantly hand-bound in full navy blue oasis morocco, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's original gilt-titled cloth covers bound in at rear. Some light marking to pp.335, 345 else contents very clean, bindings as new. A fine copy. Churchill's only novel. WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A3(b). Langworth.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1218.54 + shipping
Description: A lovely copy of the true first edition, the US edition of Winston Churchill's only major novel The first American edition of Winston Churchill's only major novel. With speeches of agitators and scenes of street fighting, the story follows the eponymous character as he attempts to lead a revolution against the dictatorial government of Laurania, a fictional European state. Described by Churchill himself as 'a thorough-going rip-roaring melodrama', the novel combines action with scenes of romance. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, 'Herbert G. Squiers'. Squiers was an American diplomat and soldier who served as the U.S. minister to Cuba from 1902 to1905, and Panama from 1906 to 1909. With a typed copy of a letter written by Winston Churchill in 1899 to another man in America; also name Winston Churchill. To remove confusion about authorship of their respective writings Savrola and other works by Churchill include his middle name Spencer. A twenty four page catalogue of publishers adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart. Very lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine with some marginal wear to the extremities. Slightly bumped to the head and tail of the spine with a small closed tear to the tail. Internally, generally firmly bound. The front endpaper which is a little loose. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Company, New York, 1900.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, first printing. Very Good+. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper board and spine. Spine lightly toned. Cloth scuffed, though mainly at the rear cover, and lightly rubbed at the tips. Previous owner name to front free end paper and small clipping tipped in at half-title page causing offsetting to the adjacent page. A very nice copy of Winston Churchill's only novel; this American edition preceded the British publication.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Description: First British edition in book form, first impression, second state. Savrola was Churchill's only novel, the first book he undertook to write, and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900, possibly as US law required a books with foreign authors to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. The UK edition appeared on 13 February, with 1,500 copies printed, including 650 sets of sheets transferred from the Colonial Library issue, which were consequently given a cancel title with the verso blank. This copy is in the second state; copies in the first state retain the copyright notice "Copyright, 1899, by Longmans, Green, and Co." on the title verso. The ownership signature dated February 1900 concurs with Woods' assertion that the first and second states are "simultaneous states of the first issue". Cohen A3.2.b; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. W. H. Smith blind stamp to front free endpaper, pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper dated month of publication. Light rubbing at extremities, foxing to edges and contents, short closed tear at fore edge of pp. 291/2: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, one of four thousand copies printed. Octavo (19.25cm.). Original dark blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; ix,[1],345,[1],[24](ads)pp. Minimal shelf wear; front hinge with a tiny (ca. 1/8") hairline crack at center, but still an unusually vibrant copy, Near Fine. Lacking the presumed dustwrapper (though to our knowledge no jacket has been noted for this title). Churchill's third published work and his only attempt at fiction, set in the fictitious European country of Laurania. According to Ahearn, Woods supplies an incorrect date (Feb. 3 1900) for the American edition, which was in fact issued in 1899 some weeks ahead of the London edition. WOODS A3a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Savrola. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1682.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering and facsimile signature to front board. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Book slightly cocked. Ink markings to verso of FFEP. Small WH Smith & Son sticker on rear pastedown. First UK edition of Churchill's only novel, preceeded by the US edition. One of only 1500 copies An attractive copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
CHURCHILL, Winston. Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. Longmans, New York, 1900.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original dark blue cloth. N.Y.: Longmans, Green, 1900. First Edition. The scarce American edition of Churchill's novel, which preceded the English edition by 10 days. The front & back covers are very lightly stained; there is minimal wear to the extremes of the spine, a penciled ownership signature & a tiny rubber-stamp on the front flyleaf, as well as a small erasure, but a sturdy copy of Churchill's only novel.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the date 1900 printed on the title page. An attractive copy with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is bound in the original publisher's blue cloth. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A nice copy of this First Edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition, names. Housed in a custom slipcase. Churchill's only major work of fiction, Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania describes events in the capital of Laurania, a fictional European state, as unrest against the dictatorial government of president Antonio Molara turns to violent revolution. Savrola is in many respects a traditional example of the "Ruritanian" genre, being published just four years after Anthony Hope's classic adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. The politics and institutions of Laurania reflect the values of England as Churchill experienced them; he began work on the novel on his voyage from England to India to take part in the Malakand campaign in August 1897.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. SAVROLA -First American Edition-. Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd., New York, 1900.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First American edition. The cloth is a vivid deep-blue, the gilt lettering is bright. The corners are sharp, the spine unruffled. There is a former owner's name ornately hand-dated in ink "February 8th, 1900" on the front free endpaper. The bookplate of the legendary Churchill collector Donald Scott Carmichael is loosely tipped-in on the front pastedown. The contents are clean and unfoxed. An exceptionally fine copy. First American Edition (Cohen A3.1.a) (Woods A3a). 8vo (356 pages, plus a 24-page rear publisher?s catalogue)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition of Churchill's third published book and only novel in a magnificent fine binding commissioned by one of the worlds oldest bookshops. The elegant, red, Morocco goatskin binding features a hubbed spine with blind-ruled compartments, gilt-decorated bands, and gilt lion rampant in each unprinted compartment. The covers feature gilt rule borders, the front cover stamped with Churchills facsimile signature in gilt. The cover edges are gilt tooled and the spine ends gilt hatched. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, red and white silk head and tail bands, and striking marbled endpapers framed by generous gilt ruled and tooled turn-ins. This compellingly handsome example of the fine binders craft is a reminder to collectors that not all fine bindings are created equal.Gilt print on the lower front pastedown turn-in attributes this binding to "HENRY SOTHERAN, LTD." Founded in York in 1761 and established in London in 1815, Sotherans is one of the worlds oldest bookshops. Condition approaches near fine. The bright and clean binding shows only a few negligible scuffs and indentations. The British first edition, first printing contents are well-suited to the binding uncommonly clean and bright with only light, intermittent spotting and no previous ownership marks. The original publishers advertisement is retained following the text, offering the "Second Impression" of The River War and the "Seventh Thousand" of The Story of the Malakand Field Force.A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. His "Tale of the Revolution in Laurania" is a melodramatic tale of political intrigue in a fictional Mediterranean state. He would later make deprecating comments about his novel and it is perhaps instructive that he never wrote another. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point."It has been argued that, as a literary effort, Savrola gave "dramatic voice to Churchills mature philosophical reflections about his fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life." (Powers, Finest Hour #74) Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book or the literary merit thereof, the novel certainly provides an interesting insight into the early political perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill.Reference: Cohen A3.2.b, Woods/ICS A3(a.1), Langworth p.39.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2244.68 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Churchill's only novel, a melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state. This copy, in unusually sharp condition, is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. The US edition preceded the UK edition by twelve days, possibly as US law required a foreign-authored book to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the initial blank. 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 A3.1.a; Woods A3(a). Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very light rubbing else a bright, fresh copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is an original, unrestored, virtually mint copy of the exceedingly rare First Printing of the Colonial edition. It is significantly rarer than either the American or English first editions of SAVROLA. Bibliographer, Ronald Cohen states that no more than 1,500 Colonial SAVROLAs were produced for both the hardcover and the softcover issues combined. Moreover, the survival rate for these editions was quite poor due to colonial climate conditions. This miraculous survivor, in its original decorated cloth binding, is virtually free of wear, retaining vivid color and just a faint reddish tinge to the rear face, no doubt picked up from an adjacently shelved book. The spine is only moderately faded, with very bright gilt type. The binding is extraordinarily tight and crisp. The original decorated endpapers are undimmed, and the contents are clean and unfoxed. Truly unique thus. First Colonial Library Edition (Cohen A3.3.a) (Woods A3bb).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.