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Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis 1915 Vol II. Thornton Butterworth, 1929.
Price: US$37.21 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929. 563 pages. No dust jacket. Second Edition Third Impression. Vol II, indicated by two gilt stars on spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front paste down and endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) and crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Churchill, Rt. Hon Winston S.. THE WORLD CRISIS: THE AFTERMATH.. Thornton Butterworth, 1929.
Price: US$64.37 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback without dust cover. Well read copy with significant spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Winston S Churchill. The World Crisis The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing. The World Crisis The Aftermath by Winston S Churchill. Ex Libris Lily Dent. Condition is very good, some slight age toning and foxing internally. Spine is slightly crumpled and is worn at top and bottom. Seller Inventory #002197
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston S.. THE WORLD CRISIS: the aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$132.89 + shipping
Description: Pp. 474, 4 folding maps and charts, and 4 in text, appendix, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, lettered and ruled in gilt & blind, the cloth lightly bubbled, and lightly marked, edges slightly worn; hinge starting towards centre, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, endpapers and edges of leaves lightly browned, a few spots of foxing, 3 cm. closed tear into margin of one leaf; Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929. First edition. Cohen A69.2(IV).a (first state without errata slip. *Fourth volume of the series under this title.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis the Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1929.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lightly rubbed and bumped, cloth wrinkled, crease to spine, a tipped in plate removed from rear p/d leaving slight remainder of paper, closed edges lightly foxed, remainder mark to base edge, PP clean and tidy. Size: 8vo Thick 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$243.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean navy blue cloth on boards with gilt titles to spine and blindstamped title to front of cover. Spine: five gilt stars; head & foot with thin bumping and soft rubbings. Edges: light few only foxings, light age tanned colour. Eps: narrow vertical dj shadowing and few only foxings. Clean contents. All fldg maps clean and present. Four pages with a 4cm closed tear to fore-edge. Binding is As New. 474p Dj: moderate browning to spine and to flaps spines. Top and bottom edges with small open tears (sections missing,) tears and chips. Three iny holes to spine. On spine states Maps and Plans.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. THE WORLD CRISIS: THE AFTERMATH.. Thornton Butterworth, 1929.
Price: US$254.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-libris sticker to the inside page, some inscriptions to the front also. The book cover is slightly crippled and bent in the top right corner. The edge of the textblock is foxed. Seems okay to read throughout though.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing, of the fifth and penultimate volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. 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. As The Aftermath subtitle suggests, this volume deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928. The British first editions were tall, handsome volumes bound in navy cloth, the contents featuring shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Moreover, the cloth binding of this fifth volume proved particularly susceptible to blistering.Condition is good in a fair dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded with bright spine gilt. Apart from light shelf wear to extremities, and an abrasion to the bottom edge of the rear cover, the chief aesthetic flaw is modest blistering, along both vertical edges of the spine and at points along the edges of both covers. The contents are internally bright with a crisp, unread feel and no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting is primarily confined to the prelims and text block edges, which also show some shelf dust and age-toning. The dust jacket is toned, modestly to the faces, more significantly to the spine, with only the flaps retaining appreciable original green hue. There is intermittent shallow loss to extremities, with larger loss to a maximum depth of 1 inch at the spine head (nonetheless leaving almost all of the title print intact) and an irregular 1.25 inch deep by 2 inch wide loss at the upper left front face. Splits are either starting or advanced to the spine joints and flap folds. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.The World Crisis was published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. The first four volumes span the 1911-1918 war years. The fifth and sixth volumes deal, respectively, with the post-war years (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). 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. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord "Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) 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. Years later, Churchills wife, Clementine, recalled to Churchills official biographer "I thought he would never get over the Dardanelles; I thought he would die of grief." (Gilbert, Vol. III, p.473)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. And, of course, Churchill famously returned to the Admiralty in September 1939. 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 A69.2(IV).a, Woods/ICS A31(ab), Langworth p.105.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$323.72 + shipping
Description: Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 474 pages. Subjects: With half-title pages. Includes indexes. Contains tables of statistical data. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 - Causes. World politics - 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 474 pages. Subjects: With half-title pages. Includes indexes. Contains tables of statistical data. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 - Causes. World politics - 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis [5 volumes of 6]. Thornton Butterworth Limited. London., 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 volumes of 6 of Churchill's great work on the First World War. All 5 volumes bound in dark blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, blindstamped titles on the front covers. All bindings tight and clean, with protective mylar dustjackets added. Volumes 1 and 5 are first printings. Volume 1: The World Crisis 1911-1914. Printed April 1923. Inscription G.H. Dodsworth from H.A.M. + L.M.M. 1923 on front endpaper. 536 pages. Volume 2: The World Crisis 1915. November 1923. Third printing. Inscription George H. Dodsworth from HAM + LMM Christmas 1923. 557 pages. Volume3: 1916-1918 Part 1. April 1927. Fourth impression. Inscription on front endpaper (same people) dated Christmas 1927. 291 pages. Volume 4. The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part 2. April 1927. Fourth Impression. Same inscription as vol 3. 589 pages. Volume 5. The Aftermath. March 1929. Inscription (same people) dated July 1930. 474 pages. We have not been able to discover who Dodsworth was, nor the people gifted these books to them as they came out a century ago. This set is from the collection of Prof. Christopher Sterling, a voracious and discerning collector of Churchill books, many others of which we are pleased to offer alongside this set. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Extra shipping will be necessary for this multi-volume set.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
WINSTON S.CHURCHILL. THE WORLD CRISIS, FIVE VOLUMES. THORNTON BUTTERWORTH, LONDON 1927 & 1929, 1929.
Price: US$432.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIVE VOLUMES FROM THE SIX VOLUME SET [LACKING VOLUME 6 ,THE EASTERN FRONT ] ALL HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS WITH NUMEROUS FOLDING MAPS, VOLUMES 1-4 ARE A SLIGHTLY LATER PRINTING FROM 1927, VOLUME 5 IS THE FIRST PRINTING FROM 1929. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. MINOR WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH BOARDS, VOLUME 5 HAS BEEN RECASED WITH THE ORIGINAL SPINE RELAID & NEW CLOTH INSERTED AT HINGES, FEW MINOR BUBBLES TO CLOTH ON BOARDS OF VOLUMES 5, ENDPAPERS BROWNED, OCCASIONAL MINOR MARKS, LIGHT FOXING OR CREASE TO PAGES. OVERALL THE BOOKS ARE VERY GOOD WITH ALL BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$483.37 + shipping
Description: Roy. 8vo., Third Impression, with 4 folding maps (2 coloured) on japon and 4 full-page maps in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, front blank preliminary lightly spotted; navy blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter generally and lightly age-soiled, and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Published three months after the first edition. This scarce work, complete in itself, is either the fourth of fifth volume of The World Crisis depending on your point of view as to the numbering system (see below). 'The World Crisis', Churchill's masterly history of the Great War, is bedevilled by an irritating numbering problem. Since the third volume is in two parts a complete set comprises five logical volumes in six physical volumes. Thus the last two volumes (The Aftermath and The Eastern Front) are constantly referred to as four and five (Woods and most other bibliographies) or five and six (as indicated by the publisher on backstrips). Early issues are very scarce in the dustwrapper. Woods, A31(a).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing of the fifth and penultimate volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. 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". This volume deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928. Though the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Moreover, the cloth binding of this fifth volume proved particularly susceptible to blistering.Condition approaches near fine in a poor dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is bright, square, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, and only trivial shelf wear to extremities. Blistering is truly nominal for the edition, with just a hint along the covers adjacent to the hinges. The contents retain a crisp, unread feel with no previous ownership marks. Spotting is barely worthy of mention, confined to just a few spots to the fore edges of the final leaves. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the dust jacket flaps, affirming what the bright binding already testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. The page edges are just a little dusty, the contents showing only the mildest age-toning. The best that can be said of the dust jacket is that it has suffered nobly in protecting the book beneath. The jacket is soiled, toned, and stained, with losses along the upper edge to a maximum depth of .75 inch (1.9 cm), minor loss at the corners and flap folds, and splits along the hinges and flap folds, as well as a horizontal split at the upper spine between the subtitle and authors name. The jacket is now protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Published between 1923 and 1931, The World Crisis spans the 1911-1918 war years, with two supplemental volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). 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. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord "Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) 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. Years later, Churchills wife, Clementine, recalled to Churchills official biographer "I thought he would never get over the Dardanelles; I thought he would die of grief." (Gilbert, Vol. III, p.473)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. And, of course, Churchill famously returned to the Admiralty in September 1939. 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 A69.2(IV).b, Woods/ICS A31(ab), Langworth p.105.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing, of the fifth and penultimate volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. 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". As The Aftermath subtitle suggests, this volume deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928. Though the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Moreover, the cloth binding of this fifth volume proved particularly susceptible to blistering.Condition is very good in a good dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners and bright spine gilt. Apart from light shelf wear to extremities, the only aesthetic flaw is some mild blistering and creasing to the spine cloth. The contents are clean and bright, retaining a crisp feel. We find no previous ownership marks and no appreciable spotting. The page edges show mild toning and light soiling. The folding map at p.102 slightly protrudes from the text block, causing some fraying to the very edges of the blank margins. Of interest, laid into this copy we found the original purchase receipt for its 1929 purchase from an Edinburgh bookshop. The dust jacket has shallow loss at points along the edges, as well as small losses along the lower rear joint and a small hole at the center spine. The jacket spine is soiled and toned, with lesser soiling and toning to the jacket faces. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.The World Crisis was published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. The first four volumes span the 1911-1918 war years. The fifth and sixth volumes deal, respectively, with the post-war years (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). 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. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord "Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) 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. Years later, Churchills wife, Clementine, recalled to Churchills official biographer "I thought he would never get over the Dardanelles; I thought he would die of grief." (Gilbert, Vol. III, p.473)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. And, of course, Churchill famously returned to the Admiralty in September 1939. 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 A69.2(IV).a, Woods/ICS A31(ab), Langworth p.105.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
WINSTON S.CHURCHILL. THE WORLD CRISIS. FIVE VOLUMES. THORNTON BUTTERWORTH, LONDON 1923 & 1929, 1929.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ALL FIVE BOOKS ARE FIRST EDITIONS & FIRST PRINTINGS. FIVE VOLUMES FROM THE SIX VOLUME SET [LACKING VOLUME 6 ,THE EASTERN FRONT ] ALL HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS WITH NUMEROUS FOLDING MAPS. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. SOME WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES MOSTLY TO VOLS 1 & 2, CLOTH SPINES TO VOLS 1 & 2 LIGHTER IN COLOUR, MOST CORNERS BUMPED, SOME MARKS TO CLOTH BOARDS MOSTLY TO VOLS 1 & 2, ENDPAPERS BROWNED WITH VOLS 3 & 4 HAVING AN INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPERS, OCCASIONAL CREASES OR MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL THE BOOKS ARE IN GOOD - VERY GOOD WITH ALL BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1929.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing, first state of the fifth and penultimate volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. 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". This volume deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928. Though the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Moreover, the cloth binding of this fifth volume proved particularly susceptible to blistering.Condition of this first edition, first printing is very good in a very good dust jacket. First state is confirmed by the lack of an errata slip at p.9. The blue cloth binding is bright, square, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, and only a trivial hint of wear to extremities. Blistering is nominal for the edition, with just a hint along the rear cover fore edge. The contents remain bright and crisp; the book feels unread. Previous ownership marks are an illustrated bookplate with the owners autograph, affixed to the front free endpaper recto, and a tiny "Huddersfield" bookshop sticker affixed to the lower rear pastedown. Light spotting appears confined to the first and final leaves and the page edges. The dust jacket is nearly complete, with minor losses to the hinge extremities and corners. The jacket shows overall toning, more significant to the spine, light soiling, and modest wear to hinges and extremities. The dust jacket is now protected beneath a removable, archival quality clear cover.Published between 1923 and 1931, The World Crisis spans the 1911-1918 war years, with two supplemental volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). 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. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord "Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) 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. Years later, Churchills wife, Clementine, recalled to Churchills official biographer "I thought he would never get over the Dardanelles; I thought he would die of grief." (Gilbert, Vol. III, p.473)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. And, of course, Churchill famously returned to the Admiralty in September 1939. 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 A69.2(IV).a, Woods/ICS A31(ab), Langworth p.105.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston. S. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929.
Price: US$636.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large thick 8vo., navy publisher’s boards, embossed with title and author to the lower corner; spine lettered and decorated in gilt; in the original printed dust jacket priced 30 shillings net; pp. [viii], 9-474, [ii]; containing 4 folding maps, and 4 additional in text, both in black and white and full colour; edges lightly spotted, endpapers a touch offset; lightly creased to spine; but else a superior copy, unusually complete with the jacket, which is a touch darkened in places and nicked to spine ends. Near fine. Second impression, published in the same month as the first, in the genuinely rare dust jacket. The fifth part of Churchill’s account of the First World War. Aftermath addresses some of the complications and disappointments following Armistice day which ultimately set the stage for the Second World War. In fact, the same year this volume was published, Churchill faced his own complications and disappointments, as the Conservatives lost 10 Downing Street and Churchill his Cabinet post as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The ensuing 1930s would come to be called Churchill’s "Wilderness Years" – a decade he spent out of power and out of favor, warning about the dangers of a rising Nazi Germany, often at odds with both his party leadership and prevailing public sentiment. Seldom found in this condition.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1503.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A neat and attractive early printing set of the first five volumes in this series. Original matching dark blue cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to spines, and in blind to fronts. Covers are very clean and bright, with moderate handling and shelf-wear, and a little bubbling to cloth at edges, more so on Vol. V. There is some toning to edges and endpapers, with some moderate scattered foxing to text, and an old owner's blind-stamp to bottom of each title-page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really sound and handsome set. Illustrated -- all maps, folding and otherwise, and plates present as listed. [printing rundown: Vol. I - 3rd ed. 4th imp.; Vol. II - 2nd ed. 3rd imp.; Vol. III - 4th imp.; Vol. IV - 4th imp.; Vol. V - 1st imp.] Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Price: US$1590.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In 4 volumes. The first two volumes are an Odhams Press reprint edition of 1939. 'The Aftermath' is a second impression (same month as the first). 'The Eastern Front' is a first edition. Uniformly bound in full brown morocco. Raised bands to spines with decorative gilt panels and gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Ribbon markers. Maps, some folding. Illustrations. Foxing, mostly to prelims, of 'The Eastern Front.' Other volumes very clean. No ownership marks. A handsome set in Fine condition. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The World Crisis.. Thornton Butterworth, London. 1929-1937., 1929.
Price: US$4134.07 + shipping
Description: Six volumes. Volumes 3 and 4 are first editions. The first and second volumes are reprints of the third edition. The fifth volume is the third impression of the first edition. The last volume, The Eastern Front, which is in fact a supplement, is the second edition, issued in The Keystone Library series. Octavo. Blue cloth. Arthur Balfour described The World Crisis as "Winston's brilliant autobiography, disguised as a history of the universe."Edges spotted. A very good set indeed in very good dustwrappers except for those of volumes 3 and 4 which are torn, chipped and defective.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4770.09 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "To A. J. Salisbury from Winston S. Churchill. Aug 1. 1929". The recipient was Churchill's neighbour Alfred J. Salisbury (1880-1943), who lived at Northfield, a country house close to Chartwell. Salisbury seems to have been involved in the modernisation of Chartwell. A number of letters in the Churchill Archive relate to the works there. He is recorded as prominent in the district, interested in farming and gardening, both activities which appealed to Churchill for his country retreats (see Salisbury's obituary, Sevenoaks Chronicle, 3 September 1943). The Aftermath was the fifth volume in Churchill's monumental history of the First World War, dealing with the peace treaties, Russian civil war, and post-war conflict. Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes. Cohen A69.2(IV).a (first state, without errata). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. 4 folding maps and 4 maps in the text. A little rubbed. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. THE WORLD CRISIS: THE AFTERMATH. London: Thornton Butterworth. March, 1929.
Price: US$6042.11 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Signed by Winston Churchill. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with titles in blind to the lower front board, titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with eight maps, four are folding, two of which are coloured. A very good copy, the binding firm with a bumping and minor fraying to the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, somewhat spotted to the prelims and text block edge are otherwise clean throughout. All of the maps are present and in fine condition. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the second blank endpaper "Inscribed by / Winston S. Churchill / June 21. 1929". The fifth and penultimate volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War, of which 7500 copies of the first printing were published on 7 March 1929. [Woods A31a (vol IV); Cohen A69.2 (IV).a] Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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Description: This is a remarkable association copy of the penultimate volume of Winston S. Churchills history of the First World War. This jacketed first edition, first printing of The Word Crisis: The Aftermath is inscribed and dated to Arthur James Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915 when Churchill was forced to resign. Churchills own words testify most eloquently to his association with Balfour, which both included and exceeded that of a colleague, mentor, or rival: " this remarkable man whom I knew, and whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics, I enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years." (Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p.240)The inscriptionChurchill inscribed this presentation copy of the first edition, first printing, first state of The Aftermath six days prior to publication. Using their respective initials, the tone is familiar, befitting their long association, and the first and third lines have a hint of playful versification. Inked in four lines, the recto of the blank sheet preceding the half title reads: "A. J. B | from | Winston S. C. | 1 Mar 1929". This was the last book Churchill published during the recipients lifetime; Balfour died a year later.ConditionCondition approaches very good overall in a very good plus dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, clean, and bright, with vivid spine gilt, sharp corners, and only trivial shelf wear confined to extremities all consonant with a jacketed copy. Unfortunately, the otherwise well-preserved cloth suffers significant blistering, endemic to the edition. In this case the spine is most affected, but also the cover edges and the upper front cover. The contents are uncommonly clean for the edition, crisp and bright with no spotting or previous ownership marks other than the authors inscription. First state of the first edition, first printing, is confirmed by absence of an errata at p.9. We note only minor age-toning and incidental dust to the top edge of the text block. The binding remains firmly attached, despite a cosmetic split at the final free endpaper gutter showing a narrow glimpse of the fully intact mull beneath. The dust jacket is complete apart from fractional chipping to the spine ends, and notably clean, with modest, uniform spine toning. There are short closed tears and wrinkling to the top .5 inch of the spine head. The inscribed volume is housed in a full, dark blue Morocco goatskin Solander case with rounded spine, raised and gilt-rule framed spine bands, tan Morocco spine labels, gilt rule-bordered covers, and marbled paper lining.The associationArthur James Balfour, first earl of Balfour (1848-1930) was among the most significant influences and associations of the first half of Churchills political career. The two were already tethered by friendship and politics when Winston was born, and during Winstons first three decades in Parliament they were almost perpetually connected by oscillations of alignment and opposition, of concurrent and opposing political ascendance. Balfour was friends with Winstons father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and supported Winston in his early endeavors, including publication of his first book and his first election to Parliament. It was in late May 1904, during Balfours 1902-1905 premiership, that young Winston dramatically left the Conservative Party and crossed the aisle to become a Liberal. In late 1911, within weeks of Churchills appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, Balfour resigned as Conservative party leader, a casualty of Conservative losses to the Liberals in policy battles championed by Churchill. Arguably, Balfours most important legacies and most potent time in power came in the years that followed. Moreover, the First World War and its aftermath apropos the title of the inscribed work in question tethered Balfour and Churchill even more than had the preceding decades. On the Dardanelles the strategic initiative that would end Churchills tenure at the Admiralty, the two men were in accord. Indeed, Balfour "argued persuasively in favor" of Churchills proposal to attack the Dardanelles with ships alone. (ODNB) When the Dardanelles disaster engulfed Churchill and forced his resignation, it was Balfour who succeeded Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.It is worth noting that Balfour anticipated the weapons that would revolutionize naval warfare in each world war the submarine in the First and the aircraft in the Second. Later, as Foreign Secretary, Balfour did much to "smooth the way for American co-operation" in the war effort. And it was the Balfour Declaration that formally stated that the British government supported "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people a frankly Zionist position to which Churchill would also commit. As Churchill would later be to the genesis of the United Nations, Balfour was committed to the U.N.s ill-fated forerunner, the League of Nations, serving as Lord President of the Leagues Council from 1919-1922. Their final service together was in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; from 1925-1929, Balfour served as Lord President of the Council while Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. On 1 March 1929 six days before publication Churchill inscribed this volume for Balfour. In the autumn of 1928, ill-health had finally removed the octogenarian Balfour from active work. Balfour died two years later. When Churchill published his Great Contemporaries in 1937, an entire chapter (pages 237-57) was devoted to Balfour.The editionA 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. The World Crisis was published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. The first four volumes span the 1911-1918 war years, with two supplemental volume
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