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Winston Churchill. Step by Step 1936 - 1939. Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1939.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback first edition third impression November 1939 book in a fair condition , stained to outer cover as shown , pages intact and complete with fold away map to rear
Seller: Tweed Valley Books, Galashiels, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover: green cloth on boards , gilt titles and faint touches of a little white dustings. Tiny bumping to three boards fore corners. Edges; light few only foxing and couple of small faint smudges. Ffep: head with name/date 1939. Missing one page 271/272. Clean content. Binding is VG. 365p
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover without dust jacket, Second Impression (June, 1939) of the First Edition (First Published June, 1939), 365 pages including one full page map, plus another foldout map; rich green cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine and the Thornton Butterworth colophon embossed in a circle at the front bottom corner, some light smudging and/or light fading to covers, but very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear, neat four-line gift inscription in ink dated "December 25, 1939" on free front endpaper, text pages very clean and unmarked; laid in is the DJ back panel, age toned and with four tiny tears, still attached to the back flap advertising Churchill's book Great Contemporaries.
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Price: US$150.81 + shipping
Description: CHURCHILL, Winston S., The Rt. Hon. Step by Step 1936-1939. L: Thornton Butterworth Ltd.,1939. Second Printing. Pp. 365 including 1 in text map and one folding map at rear. 8vo, green blind-ruled cloth with gilt titling to spine. A series of eight-two speeches made by Churchill between March 13, 1936 and May 15, 1939. Of nautical interest: Our Navy Must Be Stronger - May 15, 1936; In Mediterrannean Waters - November 13, 1936; Rebuilding The Battle Fleet - March 22, 1937; Defending The Empire - May 13, 1937; Britain Rearms - January 7, 1938; The Anglo-German Naval Agreement - January 12, 1939. Lower edge of spine bumped, tape residue to small areas of both fixed endpapers, both free endpapers show minor adhesive residue, previous owner's name and date inked to fixed front endpaper. Dust jacket somewhat soiled (and more so at spine), jacket extremities worn, frayed and having some short tears, jacket has several light ink marks to front, and is price clipped. A good to very good copy. 200.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Churchill, Winston. STEP BY STEP 1936 - 1939. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1939.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published the same month as 1st edition. 365 pages. Illustrated with fold out map at the back of book. Page 310 to 345 have ink stain at bottom edge of page, otherwise pages good condition. Previous owner's name, inscription on ffep. Green cloth, gilt title on spine. Beige DJ with black titles. DJ soiled and yellowed. Not price clipped. GOOD+/GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Step by Step 1936 - 1939. London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. (1939)., 1939.
Price: US$176.01 + shipping
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvi, 365; fold out map at rear; 1 full page map; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, cloth a little rubbed; a very good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.. STEP BY STEP. 1936-1939.. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. London. 1939, 1939.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Two maps, one folding. Two pages with very small tears to the bottom of the page, one with a small amount of loss, but well away from the text, otherwise a very good bright copy in the publishers original green cloth binding. Spine lettered in gilt. A small abrasion to the cloth at the bottom of the spine but generally a very good clean copy inside and out.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston. Step by Step. 1936-1939. London. Thornton Butterworth, 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in (unusual) variant blue cloth over boards. Gold lettering on the spine. The spine is faded a half shade darker than the boards, which are a bright attractive blue. Some mild and ordinary edgewear. Binding overall good and clean and tight. Decorative endpapers with wavy/shimmery pattern. Title page has no date on it. Copyright page dated only 1939, with no mention of any other printings. 365 pages plus one page epilogue. Folding map of Europe at the rear has clear tape reinforcement on the back, at the creases (although it is preventative, not a repair). Second map present facing page 295. Pencil notes lightly written on inside front cover say "variant binding. folding map mover from [?] to 354-5 to [?] endpaper." Nice and clean throughout. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photograph beside this listing, please be advised that it's a STOCK photo placed there by ABE (for reasons that I cannot understand), not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: contemporary full green cloth over board, title in gilt on flat spine, blind ruling upon the upper and lower parts on the upper board., A disturbingly prophetic account of the events leading up to World War II, this anthology is a collection of Churchill?s reporting for the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard from 1936 to 1939?tracing Hitler?s rise to power, the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland, and other events leading up to the declaration of war.Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874 ? 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party. Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. Conversely, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy., Size : 8vo.,
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Churchill, Winston S.. Step By Step 1936-1939. Thornton Butterworth Limited ( 1939 ), London, 1939.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, modern 3/4 tan morocco, extra-gilt spine bound by Bennett Book Studio [ Woods A45 ]. 82 current events columns written by Churchill as the world ran headlong into global war. Folding map.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Step by Step 1936-1939.. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$547.51 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, of this prescient collection of articles against appeasement. The US edition was published in August 1939, following the first British edition in June. "The American first is taller and more elegant than its English counterpart" (ibid., p. 199). 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 would soon be 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. 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 A111.2. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver on red ground. With dust jacket. Half-tone portrait frontispiece. Unclipped jacket chipped at extremities with a few closed tears, slightly soiled: a fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the rarely-seen [London] "Times Book Club" edition, which came out simultaneously with the First English edition, bound from First Edition sheets, somewhat reduced in size, though. Surprisingly, bibliographer Ronald Cohen seems to have missed this edition altogether, which is a rarity unto itself. The black cloth would appear to be a variant binding. We also have a copy bound in green cloth that appears to have precedence (see item #208909). The half-title page is omitted in this copy and the spine type reads: "W.S. Churchill." as opposed to "Winston S. Churchill" as it appears on the green cloth version, and most other Times Book Club titles. The book is also approximately 1/4-inch shorter than the green version. The black cloth here is fresh but there is some staining to the rear board. The contents are fine; the pages just a touch browned. There is a homily bookplate on the front pastedown and the trademark tiny Times Book Club inkstamp on the rear pastedown. ?Times Book Club? Edition (Cohen A111.1.d) (Woods A45a).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL Winston S.. Step by Step 1936-1939. IN FULL MOROCCO. Thornton Butterworth, [1939], 1939.
Price: US$882.46 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text and folding map coloured in outline; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collection of 82 chronologically arranged articles on foreign policy and defence written by Churchill in the years immediately preceding WWII. They appeared originally in the (London) newspapers 'Evening Standard' (13 March 1936 to 5 April 1938) and 'Daily Telegraph' (14 April 1938 to 15 May 1939). Many of them contain his all-too-prophetic warnings about Hitler and the Nazis. Woods, A45
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Churchill, The Rt. Hon. Winston S.. Step By Step 1936-1939. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1939.
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. In a good dustwrapper which has a few small edge chips/tears and shows some soiling. The wrapper, which is not price-clipped, is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Small initialled gift inscription dated 25-12-1939 on front free end-paper which has a vertical crease. Otherwise a nice clean copy with fore and bottom edge also clean (and usual dust-soiling to top edge). 365 pages + one page epilogue. Folding map at rear and one other map. Consists of the fortnightly letters written by Churchill between March 1936 and May 1939 mainly about foreign policy and defence and warning of the intentions of Nazi Germany. Photographs available on request.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. STEP BY STEP 1936-1939. Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, 1939.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket shows no chipping, light soiling front cover.Spine darkened just a bit, not price-clipped. A very clean and crisp copy throughout, collated complete with the two maps present, map in rear is folding and with coloration. A series of speeches, so-called pre-war speeches, from 1936-1939, just preceding the Second World War. Woods A45(a). 366pp. Please see photos. Size: Demi Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. STEP BY STEP -First English Edition-. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1939.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First English Edition, in an unclipped dust jacket that has modestly darkened with age, as per usual, with faint edge-chipping at the spine head and tail and a closed tear on the rear face. The book is crisp and clean, with bright green cloth and gilt lettering. The contents are fine and unfoxed. A truly handsome copy. First English Edition (Cohen A111.1.a) (Woods A45a).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Churchill Winston. STEP BY STEP 1936-1939. London Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1939, 1939.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. With a folding map of Europe at the rear. 8vo, in a fine binding of very handsome full red crushed morocco binding for Asprey of London, the covers framed in gilt, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands creating gilt framed compartments, gilt lettering in two compartments, board edges gilt ruled, as are the turn-ins, white and red floral endpapers and a.e.g. 366 pp. A very fine and impressively bound copy, internally near as mint, the textblock essentially pristine and perfect, the binding beautifully crafted and in flawless condition. A VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY OF ONE CHURCHILL'S MORE ELUSIVE FIRST EDITIONS. STEP BY STEP is the collected letters Churchill wrote fortnightly, mainly about foreign policy and defense issues which ".tell the tale of these three eventful and disastrous years in a continuous flow.a running commentary upon events as they happened or were about to happen, and a narrative of what we have lived through" - Preface. STEP BY STEP was published only a few months before the declaration of war between Britain and Germany, and it contains many far too prophetic concerns and warnings about Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S. Step By Step 1936-1939.. Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, 1939.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Churchill title, the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket. The final book Churchill published before the outbreak of the Second World War, Step by Step contains 82 letters written fortnightly between 1936-1939 regarding British Foreign Policy and Defence, many of which contain early warnings and predictions about the threat of Nazi Germany. Churchill states in his preface, "When I came to read the letters through I was surprised to find that they seemed to tell the tale of these three eventful and disastrous years in a continuous flow. They are at once a running commentary upon events as they happened or were about to happen, and a narrative of what we have lived through. I therefore thought it would be right to present them to the readers of Great Britain, the Unites States, France and Scandinavia in this volume and its translations which I trust may be accepted as a faithful record."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Step by Step 1936-1939.. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, very handsomely bound, of this collection of Churchill's powerful series of articles against appeasement, originally syndicated throughout Europe from 1936 to 1939, here published in book form just before the outbreak of the Second World War, an event which vindicated Churchill's arguments. Cohen A111.1.a; Woods A45 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles to spine with lion centre tools in compartments, raised bands, signature block to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Folding map of Europe bound in at rear. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Step by Step. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1939.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Description: This is a compellingly well-preserved jacketed British first edition, first printing of an important Churchill title - his last book published before the outbreak of the Second World War. This copy the best we have offered - is unusually bright and clean, truly fine in a very good plus dust jacket. The green cloth binding is immaculate, perfectly tight, and entirely unfaded with vivid spine gilt, sharp corners, and no apparent shelf wear. The contents are crisp, bright, and tight. We find no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms what the binding already testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. Truly negligible spotting is confined to the endpapers. Even the fore and bottom edges are strikingly clean, the only sign of age is a trivial hint of shelf dust to the top edges. The dust jacket is nearly as impressive, unclipped, retaining the original front flap price, and entirely complete. We note modest shelf wear to extremities, very light overall soiling, and just a hint of toning to the nonetheless-still-bright jacket spine. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. The volume is housed in a full navy Morocco goatskin Solander with rounded spine.Step By Step includes 82 newspaper articles focused on foreign affairs written by Churchill between March 1936 and May 1939 at the end of his "wilderness years". Many of them, of course, contain his warnings and predictions about Nazi Germany. Step By Step was published in June 1939. Only a few short months later, on the first day of September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Churchill had spent the better part of a decade politically isolated, frequently at odds with both his party and prevailing public sentiment. Now he was invited to join the War Cabinet, reprising his First World War role as First Lord of the Admiralty. Less than a year after Step By Step was published, in May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. As a measure of Churchill's prescience and ultimate vindication, when Step by Step was published Labour leader Clement Attlee, a political opponent who would replace Churchill as Prime Minister in late July 1945, wrote to Churchill, "It must be a melancholy satisfaction to you to see how right you were." Others were even more blunt. Sir Desmond Morton, military officer, government official, and appeasement opponent, wrote to Churchill, "Many years on, historians will read this and your speeches in Arms and the Covenant. They will wonder but I doubt they will decide what devil of pride, unbelief, selfishness or sheer madness possessed the English people that they did not rise as one man" and "call on you to lead them."Reference: Cohen A111.1.a, Woods/ICS A45(a.1), Langworth p.197.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Step by Step (1936-1939).. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$4830.99 + shipping
Description: Advance proof copy of this powerful collection of Churchill's articles against appeasement, including a significant terminal essay omitted from the published edition. Proof copies of Churchill's single volume pre-war works are very rare - no proof copy of this title is recorded in auction listings since 1967. The most significant alteration between the proof and published book is that the proof includes the article "Will Hitler make Napoleon's mistakes", which was published 4 March 1939 in Illustrated (Cohen C625). This article was replaced in the published version by "Turkey's Significance as a Partner in the Peace Bloc". The article provides a good conclusion to the volume, placing Hitler within the broadest sweeps of history and interpreting the role of individuals in effecting historical change. Churchill upholds that England would again be willing to fight, predicts Nazi neo-paganism and racial ideology will not outlive Christianity, and presciently questions of Hitler, "will he lead another Grand Army towards Moscow, and how would he fare in such an adventure?". Langworth wonders if the reason for Churchill's last-minute omission was that "perhaps he didn't wish to give Hitler any helpful hints" (Langworth, p. 196). The proof copy differs from the published version in numerous respects. The book's title has "(1936-1939)" in brackets, omitted in the published version. The title page has a subtitle "A series of letters on world affairs published in many newspapers throughout the world", already blacked out in the proof, and discarded in the published version. The published version gives new titles to various articles towards the end of the book. The proof copy has blank pages filled in the published book with explanatory text detailing the course of world events between speeches. It omits the maps, epilogue, and first half of the preface (which is deliberately cut out, the remaining portion on the facing page crossed out). The blurb on the rear cover corresponds with that featured on the back of the published jacket. It correctly names a probable publication date of the end of June and forecasts the price as 12s. 6d. Cohen A111.1. (though not noting the proof copy); Woods A45. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseurs Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Light wear at extremities, a little rubbed and soiled, one leaf of preface excised as issued. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom