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Price: US$4.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1941. Seventh Edition. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback. Into Battle. FEP removed. Slight wear to bottom corners of cloth. Slightly rolled spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Two-and-a-half years have passed since the publication of 'Arms and the Covenant', a collection of speeches by Mr. Winston Churchill on national Defence and Foreign Policy from 1932 to 1938. A number of people, both in this country and in the United States, have recently urged me to bring the story up-to-date. With the Prime Minister's permission, I have therefore collected all his speeches from May 1938, down to the present day. This volume sees the fulfilment of all the darkest fears to which Mr. Church gave utterance in the earlier volume. By the time this set of speeches begins the situation had already become so desperate that less emphasis is plaved upon our laggardly rearmanment than in the earlier speeches. With the danger so close upon us, and with so little time to expand our defences, Mr. Churchill clearly thought it more useful in the hopes of deterring the aggressor, to dwell upon such elements of strength as we possessed rather than to exhibit our weakness nakedly to the world. Reading between the lines, however, the warnings persist with even more urgency than before. As in the previous volume, these speeches will be found not only to revive many warnings, whose timeliness all can judge today, but to provide a running commentary upon the remorseless deterioration of the foreign situation. 313 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Description: flyleaf missing, very good condition
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A tiny booklet, 16pp. This interesting, striking, and uncommon little wartime booklet includes various excerpts from Churchill's speeches from the early years of his wartime premiership, interspersed with commentary from the unidentified compiler, who also contributes an introduction and poem. The title takes its name from four lines of verse by Thomas Osbert Mordaunt quoted on the title page: "Sound sound the clarion fill the fife." From the compiler's introduction: "I have chosen this phrase as the title of this little book because it sums up most effectively the spirit of those utterances which have stirred lovers of freedom everywhere." The title page states "The quotations are reproduced by permission of the publishers, Cassell & Co. Ltd., from "Into Battle"", placing the 1941 publication date sometime after the 6 February 1941 publication of Into Battle. The miniature booklet measures 4 x 2.5 inches, contains 16 pages, and is bound in wire-stitched illustrated card covers, the front cover bearing a color portrait of Churchill with aircraft, battleship, and tank in the background. Condition is very good plus. The covers remain bright with both binding staples firmly intact and no loss , a small closed tear to base of front cover, a little rust on the staples. The contents remain clean and bright with no spotting or previous ownership marks. Bibliographic reference: Zoller A35.ior". An unusual Churchill item.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$18.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size 8¾" x 5½", 313 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Book condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, spots to page edges, prelims and ends else contents clean. Dustjacket condition very good, rubbing to folds, fraying to edges, small pieces missing at top and bottom of spine, a little grubby and faded, not price clipped, price 8s. 6d. net. A wonderful book, published in 1941 while the war still raged, containing all of Winston Churchill's War speeches from Munich against the appeasers to November 9 1940 "We will never cease to strike" delivered just after the end of the Battle of Britain, with renewed hope and the new promise also of help from the United States. Sixth edition published April 1941, the first edition being published just two months previously. With frontispiece photograph of Winston Churchill by Cecil Beaton and facsimile signature. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. INTO BATTLE Speeches 1938-1940. Cassell & Company Ltd.,, London, 1941.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: INTO BATTLE Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. Cassell & Company, London. 1941 First edition 314pp Hardback. This copy is bound in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling to the spine. A dust wrapper is not present. Although there is some spotting to the page edges this does not encroach upon the page. The text block is unmarked, bright, white, tight and square. The fact that history records that the speeches of Winston Churchill did much to inspire the population to greater efforts in the battle against the privations on the home front, it is worth remembering that these speeches were collected during the war and sometimes within months of their first broadcasts. This was the second volume compiled by Churchill's son and includes some of the most moving speeches made between 1938 and 1940 including his tribute to the Battle of Britain pilots 'Their Finest Hour' Originally published in February 1941 this third edition was published in the same month in 1941. Ref U6
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston S; Eade, Charles. Into battle: war speeches. Cassell, 1941.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1941 Cassell third edition hardback; Very Good clean and sound copy, just name on fep dated 1941, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.78 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 313p, port. ; 22cm. Subjects: World War, (1939-1945) -- Great Britain. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: Fifth Edition. 313 pp. White endpapers with foxing. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Churchill, Randolph S. (comp.). Into Battle. Cassell London 1941, 1941.
Price: US$29.60 + shipping
Description: 4th edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo viii + 313pp., frontis., Winston Churchill's War Speeches
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 313p, port. ; 22cm. Subjects: World War, (1939-1945) -- Great Britain. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, ninth printing, of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches. Into Battle contains Churchills speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. 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. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life begins.There were twelve printings of this edition. This ninth printing was issued in January 1942, less than a year after the first printing, and is quite similar in appearance, the binding the same as the first printing, as are both faces and the spine of the dust jacket. Condition is very good in a good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is unfaded, square, and tight, with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and only minor wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are bright with modest spotting primarily confined to the first and final leaves and the otherwise bright page edges. The sole previous ownership mark is contemporary a book plate affixed to the front pastedown and hand-dated "21.8.42". The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. Minor loss is confined to the spine ends, which were reinforced from the verso by a previous owner with what appears to be strips from a donor dust jacket. The spine is a bit toned and the jacket shows moderate overall wear, but is nonetheless respectably clean. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.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 A142.1.j, Woods/ICS A66(a.9), Langworth p.204.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.05 + shipping
Description: Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾" x 5¾" (1 kg); 313pp; 2nd edition, 1st printing, first published the same year. Includes: Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197584|| Condition: Good in Poor Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper heavily worn at the edges with much loss. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Previous owners' name and address to the pastedown. Edges of the textblock heavily spotted. The contents lightly toned with age with a little, mostly marginal, spotting throughout.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing, first state of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches. Into Battle contains Churchills speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. 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. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life begins.There were twelve printings of this edition. This first printing, first state, is confirmed by missing pagination on pages 78 and 294. The binding is a smoother blue cloth variant, which in our experience is exclusively associated with the first state of the first printing. Condition is good plus in a fair dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is unfaded, square, and tight, with bright spine gilt. We note minor shelf wear to extremities, including wrinkling and light abrasion to the spine ends. The contents are bright with a crisp feel and no previous ownership marks. Spotting is light to the first and final leaves, heavy only to the text block edges. The first printing dust jacket is entirely complete, with no appreciable loss and unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. The jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price, and retains an unfaded spine, but is quite worn and soiled, with various losses to the spine ends, edges, flap folds, and joints, the white rear face soiled and spotted. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.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 A142.1.a, Woods/ICS A66(a.1), Langworth p.204.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell, 1941.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Into Battle, Winston S.Churchill, Cassell, 1941, First Edition / First Printing The first and rarest volume (certainly as a first print) in Churchill's "War Speeches" series of seven volumes. This is a first impression with the September 3rd speech left out. The binding is sound with a slight lean and the pictorial Churchill frontispiece is loose. The boards are clean, marked and a little worn in parts. The endpapers and pages are without marks nor tears with some foxing to the page edges. There is a neat owners name and date to the front end paper. Overall a good book given its age and the wartime economy paper used. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a book box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing, first state of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches, containing his speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister.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. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life begins.There were twelve printings of this edition. This first printing, first state, is confirmed by missing pagination on pages 78 and 294. The binding is a smoother blue cloth variant, which in our experience is exclusively associated with the first state of the first printing. Condition is good plus in a good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square and tight, with wrinkling and a touch of fraying to the spine ends. The contents retain a crisp feel, despite some age-toning. An original "Book Society" bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Spotting is light and intermittent throughout, heavier only to the page edges. The first printing dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. The jacket shows overall toning and wear with loss to the spine extremities, and lesser losses to the edges. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.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 A142.1.a, Woods/ICS A66(a.1), Langworth p.204.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$207.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very Good. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onward to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory. Lacks one volume. Occasional foxing. Text bright. Binding tight. Halftone frontispiece. Some volumes have owner inscription penned to ffep. Decorative dw in very good condition, some are slighlty rubbed yet remain intact. Minor age wear. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Quentin Reynolds. The Wounded Don't Cry. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, 1941.
Price: US$237.29 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An immensely scarce war memoir by Quentin Reynolds', his vivid first hand account of World War Two. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. A very scarce work, this copy being the fourth edition, published in May 1941, following the first edition of March 1941.Quentin Reynolds' personal account of the Second World War, from the point of view of an American journalist from the first half of the War.Reynolds was a war correspondent for 'Collier's Weekly', and is best remembered now for a libel suit against the right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler.From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, from her library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire. After being widowed at 25, Audrey married the fabulously wealthy American department store heir, Marshall Field III, later divorcing him and marrying the Honorable Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. In 1940 she bought Julians Park and redesigned the interior. Her library was impressive, with many examples of her own bookbinding.Audrey was an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty, the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII (though she was also rumoured to be his daughter, or the lover of King Edward VIII), featured in the 'Book of Beauty' by Cecil Beaton. She had many high profile friends, such as Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, Fred Astaire, and Nancy Mitford, a sparkling hostess of the Edwardian period, her hedonistic antics bringing her into the Bright Young Things. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Spine is a touch faded. Light spots to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell, 1941.
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Into Battle, Winston S. Churchill, Cassell, 1941, First Edition First Impression The first, rarest and most valuable / sought after in Churchill's seven "war speeches" volumes. As such first impression copies in decent dustjackets are very rarely seen. This is a true first impression with the September 3rd speech left out and no pagination on page 78. The binding is sound, the boards are clean, relatively unmarked with the gilt writing to the spine still prominent. The endpapers and pages are without marks, tears or inscriptions with some foxing to the early pages extending to the page edges. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a removable transparent cover has retained its colour well with some loss to top and bottom of the spine and at the rear crease. Overall a very good book in good dustwrapper given its age and the wartime economy paper used. A very rare volume indeed. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$317.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a super scarce variant of the first edition. Issued in the preferred smooth blue cloth.The speech from 'September 3rd 1939 to the House of Commons' is omitted from this volume as is correct for a first printing. The scarce variation comes in the paginations that are lacking. This copy is lacking pagination from pages 214 and 294. Up until now it was assumed there was only one issue that omits the speech of Sept 3rd, that printing has no pagination on pages 78 and 294; hence this copy is another but rare first issue. The price clipped jacket which has the Book Society Choice reference. Condition: The page edges have some light foxing. A little light pushing to the spine tips. A contemporary gift inscription to the ffep. Ghost of a small sticker removal from the front paste down. Square and firmly bound. The jacket is clipped with chipping and closed tears. Two internal tape repairs.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing of the first volume of Churchill's famous war speeches, containing speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. There were twelve printings of this edition. This is the first printing, first state, identified by Churchill bibliographer Ronald Cohen as missing pagination on pages 78 and 294. The binding is a smoother blue cloth variant, which in our experience is exclusively associated with the first state of the first printing. Condition is very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket. The blue binding is tight, clean, and bright, modest shelf wear confined to wrinkling at the spine ends and bumped lower corners. The contents are atypically bright for the edition; we find no spotting and the contents retain a crisp, unread feel. The sole previous ownership mark is the original "Book Society" bookplate with the original owner's name inked thereon. The first printing dust jacket is unusually bright and complete. The lower front flap is unclipped, retaining the original publisher's price, both the front panel and spine retaining vivid orange-red hue with only the slightest color shift, and trivial chip losses are confined to extremities. Scuffing and soiling are mild. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.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. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the Twentieth Century and Churchill's life beginsReference: Cohen A142.1.a, Woods/ICS A66(a.1), Langworth p.204.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$410.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uniform blue cloth hard covers with no significant cover wear, just some occasional and minor edge darkening. 1) Into Battle, compiled by Randolph S Churchill, 3rd edition published February 1941, viii, 313 pages with half-tone frontispiece, unclipped dust jacket has some edge wear and two stains on lower front. 2) The Unrelenting Struggle, compiled by Charles Eade, 2nd edition published November 1942, x, 349 pages with 5 half-tone plates. 3) The End of the Beginning, compiled by Charles Eade with 5 half-tone plates, 1st edition published 1943, xiv, 258 pages. 4) Onwards to Victory, 1st edition published in 1944 and compiled by Eade, x, 278 pages. 5)The Dawn of Liberation, 1st edition published in 1945, xi, 327 pages. 6) Victory, 1st edition published 1946, xi, 239 pages. 7) Secret Session Speeches delivered to The House of Commons 1940-1943, v, 96 pages. Each dust jacket is unclipped except clipped fifth volume and complete with what appear to be prophylactic tapes to the inside edges of each dust jacket; the dust jackets do show edge wear and some creasing. Inside the front cover of some volumes is a discrete owner's signature and a small square of white tape possibly covering another owner's name. Published between 1941 and 1946 this complete set of 7 volumes, 5 of which are 1st editions, are in very good condition, possibly near fine, with quite good dust jackets.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Into Battle. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: This is a superior, jacketed British first edition, first printing, first state of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches. Into Battle contains Churchills speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. 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. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life beginsThere were twelve printings of this edition. This first printing, first state, is confirmed by missing pagination on pages 78 and 294. The binding is a smoother blue cloth variant, which in our experience is exclusively associated with the first state of the first printing. Condition is near fine in a very good plus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is unfaded, square, and tight, with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and minor wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are uncommonly bright with a crisp, unread feel, no previous ownership marks, and no spotting. The first printing dust jacket is entirely complete, with no appreciable loss and unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. The jacket is unusually clean, despite mild, uniform spine toning. Minor wear, tiny closed tears, and attendant wrinkling are confined to the spine ends, upper front face, and flap fold corners. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.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 A142.1.a, Woods/ICS A66(a.1), Langworth p.204. First edition, first printing, first state.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$480.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eight matched volumes: The War speeches and the post-War speeches, comprising: Into Battle: viii, 313 7th ed. Jul. 1941,; The Unrelenting Struggle; x, 349, 1st. ed.1942; The End of the Beginning: xiv, 258, 2nd. ed., Dec., 1943; Onwards to Victory: x, 278, 1st. ed., 1944; The Dawn of Liberation: xi, 1st. ed, 1945; 327.; Victory: xi, 239, 1st. ed. 1946; Secret Session Speeches: v, 96, 1st. ed., 1946; The Sinews of Peace: vii , 256, 1st. ed., 194. Gilt titles: sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ b/w photos (listed). Three-quarter red lea. & cloth bds. bds. w/ gilt design. T.e.g. Five raised bands on sp. Interior leaves are clean and tight. The Second World War speeches of the redoubtable Sir Winston Churchill. A superb set.
Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S.. Into Battle. London Cassell 1941, 1941.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Cassell in 1941. A very good with previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Spotting throughout and to the page edges. No inscriptions. In a very good (much better than is usually encountered) dust wrapper which is unclipped and has one small chip to the head of the front panel and two smaller chips to the rear panel. Spotting to the rear panel. "Into Battle" is a collection of stirring wartime speeches and essays by Winston Churchill, reflecting his leadership during World War II. Churchill's eloquence and resolve shine through as he inspires courage and determination in the face of adversity. Through vivid language and profound insights, he rallies the British people and allies to persevere against tyranny. These timeless speeches capture Churchill's indomitable spirit and remain emblematic of his role as a pivotal figure in history's greatest conflict.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$569.51 + shipping
Description: 7 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with portrait frontispieces and numerous plates, tops and fore-edges lightly spotted, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped), some wrappers chipped at heads and tails of backstrips. The set comprises: Into Battle (reprint); The Unrelenting Struggle (reprint); The End of the Beginning (reprint); Onwards to Victory (fkirst edition); The Dawn of Liberation (first edition); Victory (first edition); Secret Session Speeches (first edition). Randolph Churchill edited the first volume, Charles Eade the subsequent six volumes. Although published as a series and uniform in size, complete sets are seldom offered for sale (especially in dustwrappers as here). Woods A66a, A89, A94, A101, A107, A111, A114 respectively (recording the first editions).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: This is a wartime pamphlet featuring excerpts from Prime Minister Winston Churchills speeches, spanning the first ten months of his premiership, from May 1940 to February 1941. This is the only copy we have encountered and of which we are aware. We have confirmed with Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald I Cohen, that this pamphlet is, indeed, a new discovery, previously unknown. The pamphlet measures 5.25 inches (18.5 cm) x 4.75 inches (12.25 cm) and is eight pages in length, wire-stitched and printed in black and red on cream card stock. The front cover features a photographic portrait of Churchill framed by a double red rule above the title "Winged Words" printed above a red double horizontal rule. Seven pages within feature eleven excerpts from Churchills speeches of May, June, July, August, September, October, and November 1940, as well as three excerpts from Churchills speeches of February 1941. Each excerpt is dated by month and titled as follows: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat May 1940; This was Their Finest Hour June 1940; We shall Fight on the Beaches June 1940; Alone in the Breach July 1940; The War of the Unknown Warriors July 1940; The Task Before Us August 1940; A Message of Good Cheer September 1940; Every Man to His Post September 1940; The Salvation of Europe October 1940; Empire and Liberty October 1940; We Will Never Cease to Strike November 1940; Pride of Empire February 1941; American Opinion February 1941; A Message to Roosevelt February 1941. The rear cover is printed "Presented with the Compliments of John Peck & Company Limited" (a Liverpool clothing manufacturer) above an illustrated advertisement for "Pexwear" overalls, billed as "The uniform of Britains war workers". At the foot of the page is a five-line advertisement for Into Battle, the first volume of Churchills war speeches published by Cassell and Company on 6 February 1941. Condition is very good plus. The cardstock wraps remain complete with no loss, tears, or spotting. Both binding staples are firmly intact, though rusted with some adjacent staining of the pamphlet. Soiling is light. The contents are clean with no previous ownership marks. 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. Publication of this wartime pamphlet precedes all but the first of these war speeches volumes. Bibliographic reference: unknown to either Cohen or Woods.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Here is a full jacketed set of British first edition, first printings of Churchill's seven war speeches volumes. Few books are as emblematic of Churchills literary and leadership gifts as his war speeches volumes. 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 wartime 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. Assembling jacketed first printing sets has been challenging.This full first edition, first printing set features very good volumes in good plus or better dust jackets. The blue cloth bindings remain square, tight, and respectably clean, with only a few trivial blemishes, minor shelf wear to extremities, a few corner bumps, and a little loss of the first volume's author and publisher gilt print. The contents of all seven volumes are respectably bright, though with customary spotting, substantially confined to prelims and page edges. Most, if not all, of this set has spent life together; the same previous owners bookplate, including their inked name and date contemporary to publication, is affixed to the front pastedowns of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes. The same previous owners name and a contemporary date of "1946" is inked on the front pastedown of the seventh volume. Into Battle is not only first printing, but first state, confirmed by the absence of pagination at pages 78 and 294, and is bound in the smoother, darker blue cloth we correlate to the first state. The Unrelenting Struggle is likewise first state, with irregular pagination at p.281, as is Victory, confirmed by incorrect pagination at p.177. The first printing dust jackets retain bright hues, though with various wear and defects. The fourth, fifth, and sixth volume dust jackets have neatly price-clipped lower front flaps, the other four retaining the original publisher prices. All seven jackets show various amounts of wear to extremities, and modest overall scuffing. We note minor chip losses to the spine ends and the upper front face of the second volume, as well as a shallow strip loss to the lower left front cover of the fifth volume. The versos of the spine ends of the third, fourth, and fifth volume dust jackets have been carefully backed with colored patches, apparently from donor dust jackets, to fill in the minor losses. The white Secret Session Speeches dust jacket shows some typical spotting. All seven dust jackets are protected beneath clear, removable, archival covers. 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 A142.1.a, A172.1.a, A183.1.a, A194.1.a, A214.1.a, A223.1.a, A227.2.a; Woods/ICS A66(a.1), A89(a.1), A94(a.1), A101(a.1), A107(a.1), A112(ab), A114(b); Langworth pages 204, 213, 218, 223, 228, 234, 250.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No wrappers price clipped. First four volumes reprints, last three first editions. Dustwrappers in good condition (please see image), inscriptions on front endpapers, but otherwise a very nice set of the complete seven volume set.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good First English edition set, in correct, slightly age-darkened dust jackets that still retain excellent shelf-appearance. All volumes have foxing to the prelims and fore-edges, with the exception of Volume 7. INTO BATTLE is the rare First State of the First Printing, per Cohen, with the printed numerals missing on Page 78. The unclipped dust jacket has fractional loss at the spine head and some scattered edge-chipping. The book is in very good condition, with a lovely, small bookplate on the front free endpaper, with an inked name and gift presentation both dated 1941. THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE is the First State of the First Printing, per Cohen, with the misprinted numerals on Page 281. The price-clipped dust jacket has fractional loss at the spine tail that has been filled out. The contents are otherwise fine, with an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1943. ONWARDS TO VICTORY has a former-owner name inked discreetly on the front free endpaper, else fine. The dust jacket is price-clipped. THE DAWN OF LIBERATION has very light, scattered fore-edge foxing, else fine. The dust jacket is unclipped. VICTORY is the First State of the First English Edition with the misprinted page numeral on on Page 177 missing the 1, as per Cohen. The dust jacket is unclipped. SECRET SESSION SPEECHES unclipped dust jacket is lightly edge-chipped at the spine head, else fine. Increasingly rare thus. First English Edition Set (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66- A114).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good First English edition set, in correct, unclipped dust jackets with very moderate wear and excellent shelf appearance. INTO BATTLE is the rare First State of the First Printing, per Cohen, with the printed numerals missing on Page 78. The dust jacket has fractional loss at the spine head and some scattered edge-chipping but is essentially fine. The book is virtually mint, save for a lovely bookplate from The Book Society on the front pastedown. THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE is the First State of the First Printing, per Cohen, with the misprinted numerals on Page 281. The dust jacket has closed tears on the lower edges of the front face and very minor chipping to the spine tail. The contents are otherwise fine, with foxing to the prelims and fore-edges. ONWARDS TO VICTORY has a former-owner name inked discreetly on the front free endpaper, else fine. THE DAWN OF LIBERATION has very light, scattered fore-edge foxing, else fine. VICTORY is the First State of the First English Edition with the misprinted page numeral on on Page 177 missing the 1, as per Cohen. SECRET SESSION SPEECHES dust jacket is lightly edge-chipped at the spine head, else fine. Increasingly rare thus. First English Edition Set (Cohen A142-A227) (Woods A66- A114).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2886.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions. 7 volumes, 1941 to 1946. Bound in a recent half maroon morocco with over red boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration of rampant lions in compartments; top edges gilt. Some scattered foxing, else a fine clean set. A few lines pencil underlined in Into Battle, with a comment in the margin. Into Battle is the first issue. Photographic plates. Collection of Churchill's speeches made throughout the Second World War. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2886.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Editions. 7 volumes. 1941 to 1946. Bound in a recent full scarlet morocco with raised bands, gilt lettering, borders and devices to spines; all edges gilt. All in fine condition. Into Battle is the first issue which misses the 3rd September 1939 speech (the first day of Britain's war). Photographic plates. Collection of Churchill's speeches made throughout the Second World War. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2886.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions. 7 volumes. 1941 to 1946. Bound in a recent half navy blue morocco over blue boards, with raised bands, gilt lettering and rampant lion devices to spines; top edges gilt. Some scattered minor foxing, else a fine clean set. Into Battle is the first issue which misses the 3rd September 1939 speech (the first day of Britain's war). Photographic plates. Collection of Churchill's speeches made throughout the Second World War. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First editions of each volume of Churchill's collected War Speeches, with Into Battle in the first state lacking page numbers on pp. 78 and 294. Octavo, 7 volumes,original cloth, illustrated with 50 half-tone photographic plates, includingÂfrontispieces. Woods A66(a), A89, A114. Each volume is near fine in a very good to near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Churchillâs speeches âconstitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the warâ (Randolph S. Churchill). With 50 half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3142.55 + shipping
Description: [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions ('Into Battle' is a first state). Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, vols 3 and 4 being price-clipped. First title with Book Society Choice bookplate, discreet ink date 7/10 to second title, wartime paper has expected spotting, also to edges, heavier to fourth title. Jackets with uniform wear, some small chips and tears. A very good set. A monumental collection of orations from Britain's wartime leader. 'Into Battle' contains the most memorable Churchill speeches of the war, from 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat' to his heroic homecoming at Harrow School. 'Unrelenting Struggle' covers the period from Nov.'40 through Pearl Harbour and the 'some chicken, some neck' speech in Ottawa, Dec.'41. 'End of the Beginning' chronicles the turning point of the war, following victories at Alamein and Stalingrad, and the North Africa landings. 'Onwards' features speeches delivered prior to the invasion of Europe on 6 June '44. 'Liberation' continues the 'hopeful' nature of the 1944 speeches, whilst 'Victory' provides us with the final, triumphant war speeches. Six 'secret' speeches concludes the series.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3206.68 + shipping
Description: [Speeches] FIRST EDITIONS, all first impressions ('Into Battle' is a first state). Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, none of which are price-clipped. Wartime paper has some expected spotting, two titles ('Onwards to Victory' and 'Victory') with the same owner bookplate, the earlier book with a neat gift note dated 1944, jackets with uniform wear, some small chips and tears. Very good indeed. A monumental collection of orations from Britain's wartime leader. 'Into Battle' contains the most memorable Churchill speeches of the war, from 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat' to his heroic homecoming at Harrow School. 'Unrelenting Struggle' covers the period from Nov.'40 through Pearl Harbour and the 'some chicken, some neck' speech in Ottawa, Dec.'41. 'End of the Beginning' chronicles the turning point of the war, following victories at Alamein and Stalingrad, and the North Africa landings. 'Onwards' features speeches delivered prior to the invasion of Europe on 6 June '44. 'Liberation' continues the 'hopeful' nature of the 1944 speeches, whilst 'Victory' provides us with the final, triumphant war speeches. Six 'secret' speeches concludes the series. Cohen, A142.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3206.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITIONS. 7 Volumes. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). A complete set of first editions and 1st impressions of Churchill's war speeches. A few pages with light foxing but overall a clean and fine set which has been finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather, spines with five raised bands, gilt. Red title and name labels, gilt. Spines with lettering and rampant lion device stamped in gilt. Single gilt ruled borders on boards. All edges gilt. Fine. A fantastic presentation of this important set.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3783.89 + shipping
Description: First UK editions, first impressions, handsomely bound; the complete series of the leader's wartime speeches, published in stages while the war was still ongoing, together with his post-war Secret Session Speeches. 7 volumes, octavo (211 x 135 mm). Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispieces in first five volumes along with other photographs. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston S.. The War Speeches - in 7 Volumes 1941-6. London Cassell 1941, 1941.
Price: US$4489.36 + shipping
Description: London -: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [Speeches] - All FIRST EDITIONS, all first printings. Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. All in original colour dust-jackets, volume 2 neatly clipped. Wear and chipping to volumes one and to volume three. Some internal spine repairs to the dust wrappers. Neat names to volumes 3, 4 and 5. All in all, a very good set. "Winston Churchill: The War Speeches" is a notable collection published by Cassell, chronicling the inspiring oratory of Sir Winston Churchill during World War II. Comprising his most iconic speeches, this compilation offers a remarkable insight into Churchill's leadership, eloquence, and unwavering determination in the face of Nazi aggression. These speeches, delivered between 1940 and 1945, rallied the British people and the Allied forces, becoming pivotal in maintaining morale and resolve. Cassell's publication of Churchill's wartime speeches solidified his status as one of the 20th century's greatest orators and statesmen. His famous speeches, such as "We shall fight on the beaches" and "Their finest hour," remain emblematic of British resolve and the struggle against tyranny. This collection preserves Churchill's words as a testament to the indomitable spirit that helped lead the Allies to victory and stands as a testament to his enduring legacy as a leader, writer, and speaker of unparalleled influence.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$6413.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 194146. First editions, first impressions. Seven individually issued works bound uniformly in full navy blue morocco leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with the binders stamp to the base of the paste down in gilt. Titles in gilt and gilt lined compartments to the spines, gilt Churchill signature to the leather front boards, marbled endpapers, gilt lined leather turn-ins, all page edges gilt. Some occasional light foxing, otherwise very clean and crisp. An excellent set of Churchills speeches in handsome bindings. Each volume was published separately and is complete in and of itself, they are often bound as a set of seven volumes. Comprising of: Into Battle 1941, viii, 314pp, frontispiece portrait; The Unrelenting Struggle 1942, x, 350pp, frontispiece portrait, 4 plates; The End of the Beginning 1943, xiv, 258pp, frontispiece portrait, 4 plates; Onwards to Victory 1944, x, 278pp, frontispiece plus 4 plates; The Dawn of Liberation 1945, xii, 328pp, frontispiece, 4 plates; Victory 1946, xii, 240pp, frontispiece plus 4 plates; Secret Session Speeches 1946, 96pp, 16 pages of photographs. The first volume compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, the remaining six volumes compiled by Charles Eade. Provenance no signatures or bookplates, from the Foyle library. Approximately 8 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fine condition gilt titles to gilt lined compartments. Joints fine condition. Corners fine condition. Boards fine condition full navy blue morocco leather with git signature to the front boards, minor marks. Page edges fine condition gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges fine condition sound. Paste downs fine condition marbled paper, gilt lined leather turn-ins. End papers fine condition marbled paper. Title very good condition some tanning, minor marks and foxing. Pages very good condition lightly tanned throughout. Binding fine condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1941-46 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: This full, seven-volume set of British first edition, first printings of Winston Churchills Second World War speeches offers a vanishingly rare trifecta of virtues. First, the set as a whole is unequivocally the finest we have ever encountered. Second, the presentation volume therein the seventh and final volume is equally fine, magnificently well-preserved. Third, the presentation volume is not only signed by Churchill, but inscribed, dated, and accompanied by and signed presentation letter from Churchill, providing definitive and compelling provenance.The presentation inscription, letter, envelopes, and cardsSecret Session Speeches is inscribed by Churchill in five lines on the half title: "To | Denny C. Stokes | from | Winston S. Churchill | Christmas 1947". An accompanying typed letter signed by Churchill on his Hyde Park Gate stationery is dated "December 8, 1947" and reads: "Dear Mr. Stokes, | I have received the most handsome album THE | FIGHT FOR FREEOM which you have been good enough to send | me. I am very much obliged to you for this gesture of | goodwill, and for the all-too-kind remarks contained in your | letter. Thank you so much. | I am sending you a copy of my SECRET SESSION | SPEECHES, which I have signed for you, as an expression | of my pleasure in your gift." The letter is signed by Churchill and accompanied by two original envelopes one, in which the letter resides, featuring Stokess typed Ealing address but unfranked, consonant with its inclusion with the inscribed book. A second, slightly larger envelope (in which the first envelope now resides) features the printed House of Commons seal on the flap, is franked, and is hand-addressed to a different "Stokes" at the same address. A further virtue of this inscribed presentation copy is inclusion of two rare original cards. Richard Langworth reports presentation copies of Secret Session Speeches "accompanied by a 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 in white card printed in black, 'WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF Winston S. Churchill' (name in script), surrounded by a light blue decorative border." Langworth also reports "a second card of the same size reading "The Reference to "American Authorities" in the Introduction refers to the United States Government and General Eisenhower" and surrounded by a thin light blue rule." (A Connoisseurs Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, p.250) In addition to Churchills inscription, Churchills presentation letter, and the envelopes, this inscribed presentation copy features both presentation cards.Edition and ConditionBetween 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 wartime paper, bound in coarse cloth, and wrapped in bright, thin, 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. This particular set is simply magnificent, each volume truly fine in a near fine plus or better dust jacket. Jackets, bindings, and contents are all strikingly clean. Of note, Into Battle is not only first edition, but first state, denoted by the absence of pagination at pages 78 and 294, and is bound in the smoother, darker blue cloth we correlate exclusively to the first state. The Unrelenting Struggle is likewise first state, denoted by irregular pagination at page 281. Such sets even more so such beautifully preserved inscribed volumes are virtually a chimera. All four volumes are housed together in a full, navy, Morocco goatskin case with dropback top and front, magnetic closure, ribbon pull tab, and silver title and author print.The recipient, Denny StokesThe recipient of this inscribed book was Dennis "Denny" Crane Stokes (1900-1975). While we know nothing about the "most handsome album THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM" to which Churchill refers in his letter, we do know that Stokes made a name for himself building dioramas, predominantly historical and military in nature. Denny shared with Churchill a keen interest in history, in the minutiae of battle tactics, and in the use of miniatures to portray both.Stokes may have served at the end of the First World War with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and been wounded around the time the Allies breached the Hindenburg Line in September 1918 another subject of Stokess known dioramas. Churchill served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers during the First World War. Certainly, it may be imagined that Stokess dioramas appealed to Churchill who, as a youth, arranged his own considerable collection of toy soldiers into elaborate battle scenes. The accumulation of these notional connections may explain why Stokes received such a compellingly personalized letter and inscribed book from Churchill.Reference: Cohen A142.1.a, A172.1.a, A183.1.a, A194.1.a, A214.1.a, A223.1.b, A227.2.a; Woods/ICS A66(a.1), A89(a.1), A94(a.1), A101(a.1), A107(a.1), A112(ab), A114(b); Langworth pages 204, 213, 218, 223, 228, 234, 250.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.