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Martin Gilbert. Churchill: A Photographic Portrait. William Heinemann, London, 1974.
Price: US$38.46 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first edition copy of this photographic biography of Sir Winston Churchill. A first edition copy.This volume contains a collection of photographs that were collected by Martin Gilbert during his work on Churchill's official biography. Therefore, this volume contains a unique range of photographs covering the whole of his life.From the Churchill School Westerham Library with a bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. From the Churchill School Westerham Library with a bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is also generally excellent with a library sticker to the spine and light fading to the spine. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: University library withdrawal, still stiff to open; unmarked but for small blindstamp, small inkstamp to copyright page, and small nameplate to front pastedown; with numbered card laid-in; bound in full vellum with all edges bright gilt; small patch of faint sticker residue to spine; housed in tidy forest green gilt-decorated slipcase with a bump to one edge. ; The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill; Vol. 1; 521 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Churchill, Sir Winston. War Speeches, Volume I. Library of Imperial History, London, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: University library withdrawal, still stiff to open; unmarked but for small blindstamp, small inkstamp to copyright page, and numbered nameplate to front pastedown; bound in full vellum with all edges bright gilt; housed in tidy forest green gilt-decorated slipcase. ; The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill; Vol. 19; 483 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Churchill, Sir Winston. The World Crisis, Part Two: 1915. Library of Imperial History, London, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: University library withdrawal, still stiff to open; unmarked but for small blindstamp, small inkstamp to copyright page, small sticker and small nameplate to front pastedown; numbered card laid-in; bound in full vellum with all edges bright gilt; housed in tidy forest green gilt-decorated slipcase. ; The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill; Vol. 9; 563 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: pristine unmarked copy
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No DJ as issued; Green cloath boards with gold lettering; Gilt top fore-edge
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition thus of the Library of Imperial History. Vol. VII. As New.A fine copy of this collection of early speeches by Winston Churchill.
Seller: Out West Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume III of the Centenary Limited Edition of the Collected works of Sir Winston Churchill. Includes fold-out map of the Grand Advance in the middle of the book. Cover boards are in excellent condition. Binding is tight. Small stain on fore edge of text block, not visible on pages. Map insert is lightly tanned with some foxing around upper margin, not covering text. Two small stains on left margin of page 166, also not covering text. All other pages are clean and unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover maroon boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt top edge. Includes b/w illustrations, Notes, Appendices and Index, 854 page. No DJ as issued.
Seller: BookEnds Bookstore & Curiosities, Ojai, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$141.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Without slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies. In full cream vellum binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt motif on the front cover, gilt edges to pages.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Without slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies. In full cream vellum binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt motif on the front cover, gilt edges to pages.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Without slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies. In full cream vellum binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt motif on the front cover, gilt edges to pages.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. Contains a note, which reads: "Volume II of the Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill number 2266 in the centenary edition, has been commissioned by, and is published for Richard T. Cella by authority of the Churchill Centenary Trust". Light scuffing to front and top edge of slipcase. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill. The Library of Imperial History, London, 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: This is Winston Churchill's first biographic work, the subject of which is his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. This lovely edition was produced in very limited numbers using sheets from the 1974 Collected Works that were never bound by the original publisher. This edition contains the full, unabridged text of the 1906 first edition with the added benefit of the author's new Foreword from the 1952 Odhams edition. The result is the superb contents of the Collected Works - printed on 500-year archival paper with gilt top edge - in a heavy, red buckram binding with the Churchill Arms on the front cover. The contents are bound with red and gold head and tail bands and gray endpapers. The binding is far more practical and durable than the vellum in which most Collected Works volumes were originally bound. This copy is in as new condition, the binding and contents pristine with no wear, defects, or previous ownership marks.Winston Churchills biography of his father focuses on Lord Randolph's career in Parliament after 1880. Lord Randolph died in January 1895 at age 45 following the spectacular collapse of both his health and political career. Winston was 20 years old. When he first contemplated writing his father's biography Winston Churchill was an itinerant soldier and war correspondent who had yet to write his first book. The son still dwelt very much in his father's shadow, both emotionally and in terms of the political career to which he already aspired.By the time Lord Randolph Churchill was published in 1906, the young Winston Churchill already had half a dozen books to his credit and half a decade in Parliament. By 1906 Churchill had already left his father's political party, prevailed in the same political battle that had terminated his father's career, and was just two years from his first Cabinet post. Nonetheless, that Churchill would be selected as biographer by Lord Randolph's executors was not a foregone conclusion. Churchill first entertained the idea soon after his father's death, but it was not until late in 1902 that he was appointed.Churchill then spent two and a half years researching and writing. We can assume that it was not only a major literary effort, but an emotional one as well. Of the work, Churchill wrote to Lord Rosebery on 11 September 1902 "It is all most interesting to me - and melancholy too" (R. Churchill, Companion Volume II, Part 1, p.438). Churchill was criticized by some reviewers for overplaying his father's accomplishments. Nonetheless, the work was well received both as a frank portrayal of Randolph's extremes and as a showcase for the son's literary talent.Reference: Cohen AA1.6
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: This is a lovely edition of the penultimate volume of Winston Churchills monumental history of the First World War.The British first editions of The World Crisis were originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. This volume, the fifth, deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928 experience which fundamentally informed the experience and perspective Churchill brought to bear as Britains leader during the Second World War.This lovely edition was produced in very limited numbers using sheets from the 1974 Collected Works printing that were never bound by the original publisher. The text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition. The result is the superb contents of the collected works - printed on 500-year archival paper - in a binding the same style and color as the British first edition, enabling collectors to put a crisp, new copy on the shelf at a price far less than a British first edition in equivalent condition. The attractive binding is navy blue cloth with the same spine gilt, blind rules, and blind front cover title box as the British first edition. This is a handsome and scarce production. Condition is fine. The binding and contents are nearly pristine. We note only a negligible dent to the upper rear fore edge of the binding and a hint of soiling to the upper fore edges. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the "War to end all wars". Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it.In October 1911, aged 36, Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the post with the brief to change war strategy and ensure the readiness of the worlds most powerful navy. He did both. Nonetheless, when Churchill advocated successfully for a naval campaign in the Dardanelles that ultimately proved disastrous, a convergence of factors sealed his political fate. Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign, leaving the Admiralty in May 1915. By November, Churchill resigned even his nominal Cabinet posts to spend the rest of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches at the Front. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he would experience two decades later leading up to the Second World War. Despite Churchill's political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered. Hence Churchill had more than just literary and financial compulsion to write his history.Reference: Cohen AA1.11
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$217.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. The River War:. The Library of Imperial History, 1974.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Thus (Cohen AA1)(Woods AA1). This is a virtually mint copy extracted from the legendary 34-volume "Centenary Edition" of Churchill's Collected Works, which was published on the occasion of what would have been Churchill's 100th birthday.discovered and rebound in a variety of styles. This single volume was elegantly rebound in an excellent facsimile of the First Edition's original black cloth design, complete with the gilt-stamped illustration of a gunboat steaming down the Nile. The text was taken from Churchill's later Abridged Edition of THE RIVER WAR.
Seller: Out West Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front boards, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcases with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbons; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Speeches within are Mr. Broderick's Army, For Free Trade, Liberalism and the Social Problem, The People's Rights, and India. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front board, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcase with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbon; marbled endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front boards, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcases with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbons; marbled endpapers. Volume 1 slightly discolored; darker than volume 2 (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches each
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Five volumes. Full vellum boards with gilt coat of arms and rule to front boards, as well as gilt particulars to spine. Housed in dark green slipcases with gilt coat of arms to front. All edges gilt; green silk ribbons; marbled endpapers. Various shadings of vellum (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 6 3/4 x 10 inches each.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3781.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo. 34 vols (comprising 50 books) plus 1 vol publishers' proof. Wanting 4 supplementary volumes of Essays (pub'd 1976). 1st ed. Full vellum gilt and all edges gilt in slip-cases. (with some delamination of slip-cases often found in this publication, due to sticky varnish in storage). Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom