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Price: US$7.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x + 349 pages. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding with dulled gilt-coloured titles to lightly darkened and spotted spine. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly foxed and yellowed. Ink writing to flyleaf. Light foxing to endpapers o/w pages clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Gibbs-Smith, C. Harvard, Introduction. Churchill. British Library of Information, 1942.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover has uneven fading. ; Quotations from Churchill speeches accompanied by full-page black & white photos (no captions). Approx. 4" wide by 5 1/4". Original paper covers. ; 32 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 33 pages. 10 x 13.5 cm. (5 1/4" x 4"). Printed wrappers. Small album containing a collection of b&w photographs of Winston Churchill aimed at showing "Prime Minister's character and genius rather than to show him in a setting of events" The photos are accompanied by quotations from Churchill's speeches. Clean and bright ephemera
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Price: US$15.28 + shipping
Description: FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Churchill, Winston S.. The Unrelenting Struggle. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Compiled by Charles Eade. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few small chips and closed tears. Red buckram, faded at the edges, with black ink panels and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges, sticker on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A collection of Churchill's speeches published in America to "widen the horizon of any American reader."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Churchill , Winston S.. The Unrelenting Struggle. Little, Brown, And Company, Boston MA, 1942.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Speeches, November, 1940 to the end of 1941. Many key speeches here including " All Will Be Well " made at the Guildhall , Hull, November 7, 1941. Gift inscription on front endpaper. A small tear and chips to dust jacket . Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: printed paper wraps, 7 (1) pages,stapled at spine, two historic speeches.to the members of both Houses of the United States Congress at Washington on Dec 26th, 1941.- To the members of the Senate and of the House of Commons at Ottawa on December 30th, 1941, printed by St. Clements Press, London, see WOODS; A86 overall light soil and tone, staples are rusted. Size: 4 to
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Cartland, Barbara. Ronald Cartland. Collins, London, 1942.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 264 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Frontis. This is perhaps the scarcest work by Barbara Cartland Preface by Winston Churchill. From Wikipedia: "Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ (9 July 1901 21 May 2000) was an English author, one of the most prolific and commercially successful of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 36 different languages, and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year." From Wikipedia: "John Ronald Hamilton Cartland (3 January 1907 30 May 1940) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940, aged 33. Ronald Cartland was the son of Major Bertram Cartland and Mary Hamilton Scobell, and the younger brother of novelist Barbara Cartland. Party office, where he managed the election of the Tory MP candidate. After Lionel Beaumont Thomas's decision to retire on health grounds in 1933, Cartland was chosen to replace him in Herbert Austin's former constituency of King's Norton, Birmingham. His selection was supported by the Chamberlain family, long the most powerful force in Birmingham Conservative circles. He won in the 1935 election, becoming one of the youngest MPs in the House of Commons. Cartland's maiden speech to the Commons, in May 1936, attacked the Government of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, for its less-than-enthusiastic attitude in aiding 'distressed areas' those parts of the UK that were suffering from extreme economic difficulties, with unemployment rates as high as 40%. After Chamberlain succeeded Baldwin as Prime Minister, Cartland earned the wrath of the Conservative Party's hierarchy by taking a stand against the British Government's policy of appeasement of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy which brought him to the attention of other Tory dissident backbenchers, as well as Winston Churchill. He served as a back-bench MP in Neville Chamberlain's government. He is most famous for a speech that he gave to the house in August 1939, in which he accused the Prime Minister of having "ideas of dictatorship". Ronald Cartland achieved the rank of Major in the British Army. In 1937, he joined the Territorial Army. By August 1939, he was a lieutenant in the Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry. When the Nazis invaded Holland, Belgium and France in May 1940, the now Major Cartland was serving in the 53rd Anti-Tank Regiment, (The Worcestershire Yeomanry) Royal Artillery. The unit was assigned to defend the town of Cassel, a hilltop site near one of the main roads leading to the Channel port of Dunkirk, France. Cartland and his men held off the Germans for nearly four days, from 27 to 29 May. On the evening of 29 May 1940, Cartland and his unit split up, and joined the retreating British Expeditionary Force heading towards Dunkirk. On 30 May 1940, while reconnoitring his position from a ditch, he was shot and killed during the retreat to Dunkirk. Major. Cartland was initially listed as Missing In Action, and his family in England did not learn of his true fate until January 1941. His mother received a letter from one of Cartland's men, now in a German POW camp where the soldier described Cartland's death in detail. " Good in good dust jacket. Bookplate inside front cover. Part of DJ pasted to fep.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. The Unrelenting Struggle. McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1942.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: This is a quite presentable copy of the Canadian first edition of Churchill's second war speeches volume. The Unrelenting Struggle contains 72 of Churchill's speeches, broadcasts, and messages to Parliament from November 1940 to the end of 1941, terminating with Churchills famous speeches to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament. Churchill's words during this time resounded during some of the darkest and most uncertain days of the war. This first Canadian edition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is clean, square, bright, and tight, with sharp corners, wrinkling to the spine ends, and a touch of toning confined to the spine heel corresponding to small dust jacket losses. The contents are respectably clean with no previous ownership marks and no spotting, mild age-toning, and light spotting to the text block edges. The dust jackets red spine panels are only mildly toned, retaining bright color. There are shallow chip losses to the spine ends, flap fold corners, and upper rear face, as well as modest overall scuffing and soiling. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes in British, U.S. editions, and Canadian editions. The Canadian first editions are scarcer than either their British or U.S. first edition counterparts, particularly in collector-worthy condition in first printing dust jackets. Few books are as emblematic of Churchills literary and leadership gifts as his war speeches volumes. During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, Nobel Prize winner, painter. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world. Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly " for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."Reference: Cohen A172.3, Woods/ICS A89(c), Langworth p.215.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. The Unrelenting Struggle. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: This is a quite presentable copy of the U.S. first edition, first printing of Churchill's second war speeches volume. The Unrelenting Struggle contains 72 of Churchill's speeches, broadcasts, and messages to Parliament from November 1940 to the end of 1941, terminating with Churchills famous speeches to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament. Churchill's words during this time resounded during some of the darkest and most uncertain days of the war. This first U.S. edition, first printing, is a collector-worthy example, near fine in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is clean, square, bright, and tight, with sharp corners and only a hint of wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are beautifully bright within. We find no spotting and no previous ownership marks. The book feels unread. Only the text block edges show some mild shelf soiling. The dust jacket is neatly price-clipped and has shallow loss at the spine ends and flap fold corners, but more than compensates with a vividly red, unfaded spine title and print. As a result, shelf presentation is far superior to most first edition copies we encounter. The white rear panel is lightly soiled, but complete, and the illustrated front panel remains bright with only mild wrinkling and scuffs, mostly to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes in both British and U.S. editions. The U.S. first editions were generally published in smaller numbers and are considerably scarcer today than their British counterparts, particularly in collector-worthy condition in first printing dust jackets. Few books are as emblematic of Churchills literary and leadership gifts as his war speeches volumes. During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, Nobel Prize winner, painter. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world. Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly " for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."Reference: Cohen A172.2.a, Woods/ICS A89(b.1), Langworth p.214.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: This is an original Second World War press photograph of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill introducing Field Marshal and South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts to the British Parliament on 21 October 1942.The gelatin silver print is on heavy glossy photo paper and measures 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm). Condition is very good with a clean, crisp appearance. There is modest wear, substantially confined to the white border margins, with the exception of a small tear and loss at the lower left corner, not appreciably affecting the image. The verso features the ink stamp of "Keystone Press Agency Ltd." The original Keystone caption remains tipped onto the verso. It is titled: "FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS ADDRESSES | MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES 21.10.42." The caption text reads: "Field Marshal Smuts today addressed | members of both Houses of Parliament. | Mr. Lloyd George presided at the meeting, | and Mr. Churchill made a brief speech. | KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS. Mr. Churchill | speaking today." By 1942, Churchill and Smuts had known one another for more than four decades. Their acquaintance began inauspiciously. In 1899 Winston Churchill, age 24, was captured during the Boer War. Churchills Afrikaner interrogator was Jan Smuts, age 29. Smuts opposed Churchills release. Churchill famously escaped. They met again in 1906, when Churchill was at the Colonial Office, and Smuts had become a Commando general. Their agreement to "a fresh start between Briton and Boer" led to formation of a self-governing Union of South Africa. (Roberts, WWD, p.105) Smuts served as its second prime minister from 1919-1924. Both men attended War Cabinets in the First World War. Smuts was an early member of Churchill's Other Club where, in 1933, in the midst of Churchills "wilderness years" (and his own), Smuts said that Churchill should have been Prime Minister and "Let me say this if my old friend is careful, he will get there yet." (Ibid. p.570) Smuts got there first. The September 1939 parliamentary vote that brought South Africa into the Second World War on the Allied side also resulted in the return of Smuts to the premiership (1939-1948). Churchill became British prime minister in May 1940. By 1941 Smuts had joined the British War Cabinet, been appointed a Field Marshal in the British Army and become a critical advisor to Churchill. In July 1942, British troops defeated Rommels forces in the First Battle of El Alamein, but Allied momentum then stalled. Churchill flew to Cairo on 1 August to assess command. Smuts accompanied Churchill and was instrumental in encouraging Churchills difficult decision to replace Middle East Commander-in-Chief Auchinleck with Alexander. Churchill wrote to his wife of Smuts "He fortified me where I am inclined to be tender-hearted " (Ibid. p.748) When Smuts died in 1950, Churchill told the Other Club that he had admired Smuts unreservedly, accepting advice from him that he would not have taken from anybody else besides his wife. (Ibid. p.918)This press photo once belonged toa newspapers working archive. During the first half of the twentieth century, photojournalism grew as a practice, fundamentally changing the way the public interacted with current events.Newspapers assembled expansive archives, including physical copies of all photographs published or deemed useful for potential future use, their versos typically marked with ink stamps and notes providing provenance and captions. Photo departments would often take brush, paint, pencil, and marker to the surface of photographs themselves to edit them before publication. Today these photographs exist as repositories of historical memory, technological artifacts, and often striking pieces of vernacular art.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. The Unrelenting Struggle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1942.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition, first printing, first state of the second volume of Churchill's war speeches, containing 72 of Churchill's speeches, broadcasts, and messages to Parliament from November 1940 to the end of 1941, terminating with Churchills famous speeches to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament. Churchill's words during this time resounded during some of the darkest and most uncertain days of the war.This first edition, first printing is in very good condition in a good dust jacket. First state is confirmed by irregular spacing of the pagination at p.281. The blue cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded, with bright spine gilt. Trivial shelf wear is confined to extremities. The contents show no previous ownership marks and spotting is substantially confined to the first and final leaves and page edges. The first printing dust jacket is unclipped, the original lower front flap price intact, and unfaded, the orange hue bright on both the front face and spine. There is overall soiling and scuffing and shallow loss to the spine head, upper front face, and flap fold extremities. A previous owner applied hued patches to the verso of the jacket which appear to be from a donor dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover.Few books are as emblematic of Churchills literary and leadership gifts as his war speeches volumes. During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, Nobel Prize winner, painter. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world. Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly " for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes. The British first editions are visually striking, but were printed on cheap "War Economy Standard" paper, bound in coarse cloth, and wrapped in bright, fragile dust jackets. They proved highly susceptible to spotting, soiling, and fading, so the passage of time has been hard on most surviving first editions.Reference: Cohen A172.1.a, Woods/ICS A89(a.1), Langworth p.213.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Step by Step 1936-1939.. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1942, 1942.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: First Macmillan edition, first impression, of this prescient collection of articles against appeasement, originally published just before the outbreak of the Second World War, here republished for a wartime audience. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. Churchill's articles were syndicated throughout Europe from 1936 to 1939. His attack on appeasement and calls for Britain to prepare for conflict ran counter to the near-unanimous support for appeasement and peace among the British establishment and led to his exclusion from high office throughout these years. He was vindicated by the German invasion of Poland, and his committed stance earned him the enduring respect of allied opinion as he took on the mantle of Britain's wartime leader. Macmillan's edition was the first to be published with Churchill as Prime Minister. Reflecting Britain's alliance with the Soviet Union, two anti-Soviet speeches were omitted: "Enemies to the Left" and "The Communist Schism". 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 A111.3a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Price-clipped jacket a little sunned and rubbed: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Step by Step 1936-1939.. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1942, 1942.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: First Macmillan edition, first impression, of this prescient collection of articles against appeasement, originally published just before the outbreak of the Second World War, here republished for a wartime audience. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. Churchill's articles were syndicated throughout Europe from 1936 to 1939. His attack on appeasement and calls for Britain to prepare for conflict ran counter to the near-unanimous support for appeasement and peace among the British establishment and led to his exclusion from high office throughout these years. He was vindicated by the German invasion of Poland, and his committed stance earned him the enduring respect of allied opinion as he took on the mantle of Britain's wartime leader. Macmillan's edition was the first to be published with Churchill as Prime Minister. Reflecting Britain's alliance with the Soviet Union, two anti-Soviet speeches were omitted: "Enemies to the Left" and "The Communist Schism". 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 A111.3a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Price-clipped jacket with light rubbing at extremities, still a nice example: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: This is a beautifully fine copy of the first English-language edition, only printing of Churchill's May 10, 1942 broadcast address, made on the second anniversary of his becoming wartime Prime Minister. Churchill spoke that night to the British people live from the Cabinet War Room. It was six days later, on a tour of bomber stations, army units, and armaments factories, that Churchill most aptly summed up the overall theme of his broadcast address when he told a Leeds crowd: "We have reached a period in the war when it would be premature to say that we have topped the ridge, but now we see the ridge ahead."This twelve-page, wire-stitched pamphlet measures 9 inches tall x 6 inches wide (22.9 x 15.2 cm). Scarce in general, this pamphlet is particularly so thus, in fine condition. The pamphlet remains crisp, clean, and complete. We find no tears, no losses, no previous ownership marks, and virtually no wear or soiling. Both binding staples remain firmly intact and show no corrosion. Age-toning is mild, evident only in slight color shift to the perimeter of the pamphlet, The pamphlet is protected within a clear, removable, archival mylar sleeve.Churchills 10 May broadcast address looks both back to darker times earlier in the war, and to present challenges that herald a better future. By the end of his second year as Prime Minister, the imminent threat to Britain had eased sufficiently that Churchill faced political divisions in the wartime coalition and growing criticism of his war leadership. Addressing this criticism, he had drafted a passage which began, "Everyone feels safer now, and in consequence the weaker brethren become more vocal ", seeking to diminish his critics and stave off their efforts to reduce his "power of direction and initiative." Wisely, Churchill deleted this passage at the last moment.Perhaps as a gentler and more deft assertion of his leadership, Churchill recalled the early days of the war when France had fallen and Britain was alone: "It fell to me in those days to express the sentiments and resolves of the British nation in that supreme crisis of its life For a whole year after the fall of France we stood alone " He spoke of his difficult and uncomfortable ally, Russia, complimenting Russia for her tenacity, but attributing her victory to the Russian winter. He spoke against gas warfare, promising that Britain would be prepared to retaliate massively in kind against Germany should Germany resort to poison gas echoing the deterrence through threat of massive retaliation strategy that would characterize the coming Cold War. He also spoke of Japan, and the promise of combined British and American sea power. Churchill concluded with a bracingly Churchillian attaboy: " tonight I give you a message of good cheer. You deserve it, and the facts endorse it. But be it good cheer or be it bad cheer will make no difference to us; we shall drive on to the end, and do our duty, win or die "This pamphlet is one in a series of Churchill's speeches printed by the British Library of Information in New York. The British Library of Information published thirty-four editions of statements, speeches, and broadcast addresses by Prime Minister Winston Churchill (that number including some variant publications of the same speeches), beginning with his first speech as Prime Minister of 13 May 1940 and ending with the broadcast address of 29 November 1942. These editions were often issued within two or three days of delivery and "reveal the political determination of the British government to bring the inspiration and steadfastness of the Prime Minister and the British nation to an American nation not yet engaged in the war. Indeed, twenty-two of the BLOI speech pamphlets were published before Pearl Harbor." (Cohen, Volume I, p.513, A120)Reference: Cohen A169.2, Woods A88/1 First English-language edition, only printing.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Rare first edition of Churchill's historic address delivered before Congress on December 26th 1941. Octavo, original boards. One of on thousand copies printed. In very good condition. "Most of Churchill's December 26, 1941, speech to Congress was an attempt to summarize the course of the war thus farâ"from a British viewpoint. His aim was to convince the American public that the wisest plan was to create an effective alliance that could win the war and preserve the peace afterwards. He added that the best war news of all was that âthe United States, united as never before, have drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard.â
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Rare first edition of Churchill's historic address delivered before Congress on December 26th 1941. Octavo, original boards. One of on thousand copies printed. In near fine condition. "Most of Churchill's December 26, 1941, speech to Congress was an attempt to summarize the course of the war thus farâ"from a British viewpoint. His aim was to convince the American public that the wisest plan was to create an effective alliance that could win the war and preserve the peace afterwards. He added that the best war news of all was that âthe United States, united as never before, have drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard.â
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: This original Second World War American propaganda poster features the image and words of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. In large white print, angled above an image of the gesticulating and bespectacled Prime Minister, is the title "till Death or Victory". Below Churchills face, printed in black on a downward slanted white faux paper fragment, is an excerpt from Churchills 15 February 1942 broadcast, "When I survey and compute the power of the United States, and its vast resources, and feel that they are now in it with us, with the British Commonwealth of Nations, all together, however long it lasts, till death or victory, I cannot believe there is any other fact in the whole world which can compare with that." The excerpt terminates with Churchills facsimile signature "Winston S. Churchill". The lower left corner states "One of a series of posters sponsored by The National Industrial Information Committee". This poster is undated but likely produced in 1942, certainly during the war. The 20 x 16 inch poster (50.8 x 40.6 cm) is protected beneath UV filtering acrylic in a 23.375 x 18.875 inch (59.4 x 48 cm) substantial wood frame featuring an antiqued black finish. Condition is very good, the poster professionally linen-backed, creating a smooth and even surface to the paper. This large, framed item will be shipped at cost.This poster was one of a series of six produced by the National Industrial Information Committee, under auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). These posters, featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-Shek, "Albert Vragel, an industrial worker", and "The Sullivans, an American father and mother", all exhorted hard work in the name of victory. NAMs president released a message with these posters, "If these inspiring messages from our war leaders, from one of our great army of workers, and from the honored parents of five young American boys who gave their lives that we might live can help to make us all realize that every minute we spend at the job of producing for war will save countless lives and bring the final Victory closer to hand, I believe they should be displayed in every shop, in every plant, and in every office in the land." The role of American industry in the Allied victory is difficult to overstate. Less than one month after Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt told Congress "It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies. We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war." By the end of the war, half of the worlds wartime industrial production was in the United States. This poster of Churchill reproduced an excerpt from his 15 February 1942 broadcast report on his first Washington Conference with President Roosevelt. As evidenced by his words, few were more aware of the essential productive vitality of the American war effort. In early December 1941, the United States formally entered the Second World War, marking the end of Britain's solitary stand against Hitler's Germany, which it had sustained since the fall of France. Churchill immediately decided to travel to the United States, and made a perilous crossing of the U-Boat-plagued Atlantic on the battleship Duke of York. While in North America, Churchill addressed both the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament and stayed at the White House, conferring extensively with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On 15 February 1942, a month after he returned to Britain and on the same disastrous and demoralizing day British troops surrendered to the Japanese in Singapore, Churchill addressed the British people from Chequers. Singapores loss explains why this posters speech so bluntly emphasizes that no "other fact in the whole world" compares to the importance of alliance with America.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
. The Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms. , 1942.
Price: US$6325.00 + shipping
Description: Original painting, measuring 29 3/4 by 21 1/2 inches, matted and framed. The subject of the painting is the text of the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 that provided a framework for U.S. and British war, and post-war, goals. The Charter formed the basis for the charter of the modern United Nations. The text is written here in fine calligraphy with red and gold initials. The headings for the eight parts are in blue on a pink ground, and tiny versions of the flags for each of the Allies who signed the Charter are finely wrought in full color. At the end of the text, the title is flanked by excellent miniature portraits of Roosevelt and Churchill. Along the right side of the Charter are four paintings representing the Four Freedoms. In his State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, Roosevelt put forward four essential human rights that all people should enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These fundamental freedoms were incorporated into the Atlantic Charter and entered the cultural zeitgeist, inspiring a wealth of artistic expression, most famously the series of paintings by Norman Rockwell. Arthur Szyk also produced a quadriptych of the Four Freedoms, and murals depicting the freedoms grace government and private buildings throughout the United States. This painting was completed a year before Rockwell's series appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post and was executed by Jos. (possibly Joseph) Schoor, about whom we could find no information but who is certainly accomplished in his craft. The four richly detailed scenes show representations of the Four Freedoms: an orator enjoying the freedom of speech; a crowd entering a house of worship and exercising their freedom of religion; a farmer free from want gathering hay; and an allegorical female figure with a sword ready to defend the innocent from war, famine, and death, guarding the freedom from fear. The striking images feature strong lines and bold colors reminiscent of the paintings of Rockwell Kent and Edward Hopper. The Charter and Freedoms are bounded by a multi-colored triple border, also painted by Schoor. The whole has been professionally framed and matted and is in fine condition. Altogether a well-executed response to a world-changing vision of the future. (Frame measures 38 1/4 by 30 1/4 inches).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S. Winston S. Churchill Signed Walter Stoneman Photograph.. , 1942.
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Description: Silver gelatin print portrait of Winston Churchill by Walter Stoneman, boldly signed and dated by him, "Winston Churchill 1947" on the mount. Photographer's stamp on verso. The photograph measures 9 inches by 6 inches. Celebrated war-time portrait of Churchill taken on 1 April 1942, by Walter Stoneman, self-styled "The Man's Photographer." In June 1897, he was the only one of fourteen photographers working for J. Russell & Sons who succeeded in taking four pictures ofÂQueen VictoriaÂin her goldenÂstate landauÂon the occasion of herÂdiamond jubilee. Working for J. Russell & Sons, he took numerous photographs of royalty,Âaristocracy, members ofÂhigh societyÂand other prominent individuals. By 1913 he became managing director of the firm, and after the death ofÂJohn Lemmon RussellÂin 1915 he ran the company. In 1948, Stoneman was made a Member of theÂOrder of the British Empire (MBE) for services to photography. He continued working as a photographer right until his death in 1958.ÂStoneman was a fellow of both the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal Geographical Society, as well as vice-president of the London Devonian Association. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 16 inches. Winston S. Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Angloâ"Sudan War, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns. At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government of 1924â"1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s because of his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940â"41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured. After the Conservative Party suffered an unexpected defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. He publicly warned of an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. After winning the 1951 election, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His second term was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed coup d'Ã tat in Iran. Domestically his government laid great emphasis on house-building. Churchill suffered a serious stroke in 1953 and retired as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained a Member of Parliament until 1964. Upon his death aged ninety in 1965, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history.
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