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Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: December 1932 First edition, 4th Impression, Library with the usual stamps/stickers. Rebound by Library with leather to the spine. Heavy rubbing to corners. Tanned edge paper, light foxing. Spine a little bent as shown in pictures. u5A23.
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$61.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth on boards with gilt titles and small circular embossed stamp to front bottom fore area. Mild dusting of marks and rubbings. Spine: head & foot with thin wear. Tiny bumping to top boards fore corner tips.edges: light age browning and foxing. Eps: light foxings; Signature to ffep. Frontis: b/w photograph of Winston Churchill sitting beside his painting. Mild foxings to many pages. Binding is VG+. 320p
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Churchill, Winston S.. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth London 1932, 1932.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition brown cloth Very Good octavo 318pp., frontis., Rebound in brown buckram, bright spine titles, neat ownership inscription & some browning to end papers o/w nice tight, square copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, 1932.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Previous owner's signature, dated 1932 on front free endpaper.Half-title and title-pages are foxed. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Text block is clean. A collection of twenty-three essays on a wide range of subjects. 320pp. Woods A39(a). Size: Medium Crown Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S.. THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 319 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white illustrations. Black and white frontispiece photograph of the author. Inner hinges are cracked but intact. Page edges are darkened, smudged, and scuffed. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Worn and lightly bumped around the edges. Lightly scuffed and stained on the boards. Some wrinkles on the spine. 4th UK Impression. VG-/- -
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Thoughts and Adventures.. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1932.
Price: US$263.92 + shipping
Description: First edition. Tall 8vo, orig. cloth. Cloth rubbed but o/w a very good copy. Woods A39a.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Churchill, Winston S.. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$339.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Orig. green cloth, gilt titles. 320 pp. B&W cartoons in text, plus frontis. portrait of Churchill. Recently professionally rebacked with original spine laid down, some loss to title (T and A lacking from beginning of each word). Cloth is rubbed. Pencil ownership inscription to ffep. Bookplate and ownership inscription of Adrienne Taylor. Offsetting to half-title.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited., London, 1932.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First Edition, third impression. , contemporary green cloth over boards, title in gilt on upper board and flat spine., Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 ? 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party. Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. Conversely, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy., Size : 8vo., Comprises essays on a vast array of subjects, such as Churchill?s musings on his own career - ?A Second Choice?, ?Personal Contacts?, ?The Battle of Sidney Street?, ?Election Memories?, ?The Irish Treaty?, and then correspondingly the tools by which he made himself relax amid those political storms. Illustrated with a photograph frontispiece of the author, and chapter 2 illustrated with cartoons. , References : Ref. Richard Langworth, First Edition: Woods A39(a) A very good copy. Previous owner?s handwriting in ink on the upper free end paper.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: This is the first edition, first printing of Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The khaki cloth unique to the first printing of this edition is notoriously prone to scuffing, wear, and soiling, and the contents proved highly susceptible to spotting. Absent the protection of the scarce and expensive original dust jacket, nearly every copy we encounter is both significantly scuffed and spine toned.This copy is in good plus condition. The binding is inevitably scuffed, including a tiny closed tear at the spine head, but nonetheless remains square and tight with bright gilt and no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine. The contents are unusually clean. We find no internal spotting, which appears confined to just a few scattered spots on the page edges. The sole previous ownership mark dates from the Second World War and intrigues. "W. Churchill" and a date of "14/6/44" is inked on the front free endpaper recto. This, in our opinion, is definitively not the signature of the author. The page edges show moderate age-toning, the fore and bottom edges otherwise clean, the top edge a bit dust soiled, the fore edges with a few minor indentations.An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.a, Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$753.63 + shipping
Description: [Political Autobiography] FIRST EDITION, First Impression, PRIMARY BINDING. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.320. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author at work on a painting, and a handful of in-text illustrations. Bound in publisher's khaki/olive green cloth (later in dark green), with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, stamped in blind. Contents clean, some spotting to edges, ink ownership to paste-down, some shelfwear; very good. Churchill's second and final work of autobiography, following 'My Early Life' (1930). WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A39(a); Langworth 156.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Description: [Political Autobiography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.320. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author at work on a painting, and a handful of in-text illustrations. Recently rebound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and lions rampant stamped to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others lightly trimmed. Very occasional minor spotting, and some minor repairs to fore-edge of pp.19-24. A crisp, clean copy presented in an attractive new leather binding. Churchill's second and final work of autobiography, following 'My Early Life' (1930). WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A39(a); Langworth 156.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the rarely-seen [London] "Times Book Club" edition, which was bound from early edition sheets but in a plainer binding of smooth dark green cloth. Miraculously, the Cohen bibliography overlooks this edition. The cloth here is unusually fresh and bright, with a tiny chip at the spine head. The gilt spine type is just a bit dulled. The contents are fine and unfoxed. There is a "Times Book Club" sticker on the rear pastedown. Truly scarce, especially in this condition. First English ?Times Book Club? Edition (Cohen A95.1.?) (Woods A39a). 8vo (320 pages, illustrated with cartoon reproductions and a photo frontis)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1932.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: This is the first edition, second printing, an excellent copy, quite scarce thus in the dust jacket. This copy previously belonged to the personal library of Churchills bibliographer, Ronald Cohen. This second printing was issued in November 1932, the same month as the November 1932 first printing. The spine, rear cover, and rear flap of this second printing dust jacket are identical to those of the first printing.The front face differs only slightly in that the authors name has been moved up and the honorific "The Rt. Hon." has been deleted to make room for four lines printed in red thus: "The opinion of the Press | is summarized in the words | of the MORNING POST | A TONIC FOR THE TIMES".The front flap of this second printing dust jacket substitutes nine review excerpts for the blurb found on the first printing dust jacket. This copy is very good in a very good dust jacket.The jacket is substantially complete, with only minor chipping to the spine ends and slight loss at the flap fold corners. The jacket spine is moderately soiled, scuffed, and toned, the faces and flaps substantially clean with only light soiling. The jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. The volume beneath is likewise very good, the green cloth unfaded, the spine and front cover gilt vividly bright. We note light shelf wear to extremities, minor wrinkling to the spine cloth, and a slightly shaken front hinge. The contents retain a crisp feel with no spotting, mild age-toning, light soiling to the text block edges, and a single previous owner name in pencil on the front free endpaper recto. This jacketed second printing is compelling in its own right, but offers the additional benefit of identical shelf appearance to the first printing at a price far less than an equivalent condition jacketed first printing copy would command. Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.c, Woods/ICS A39(aa.2), Langworth p.156.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: This a first edition, second printing in the first printing dust jacket bibliographically intriguing thus. Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The first impression of November 1932 was quite swiftly followed by a second impression; the one thousand second printing copies were actually printed prior to the publication date of 10 November. The contents vary from the first printing only in the notation of the second impression on the copyright page. Churchills bibliographer Ronald Cohen states: "I expect that copies of the second printing would have been wrapped in first edition dust jackets until these ran out or until such time as the newly designed jackets including reviews became available." This copy - which must be an earlier second printing - confirms Cohen's expectation. Condition is very good minus in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth binding is clean, tight, and, consonant with a jacketed copy, entirely unfaded with deep green hue and vivid gilt on the front cover and spine. There is a slight forward lean, a faint vertical spine crease, shelf wear to the bottom edge, including minor fraying to the lower corners and a dent and minor split at the bottom edge of the front cover. The contents are mildly age-toned with spotting primarily confined to the prelims. The first free endpaper is missing, but clearly was excised long ago; differential toning to the half title and final free endpaper corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirm that this copy has spent life jacketed. There are three previous ownership marks on the upper half title an inked and crossed out name, a different inked name, and a small sticker with a third name, address, and telephone number. The lower final free endpaper verso is ink-stamped with the date "11.32". On the facing lower rear pastedown is the printed sticker of "The Times Book Club". The first printing dust jacket is substantially complete and unclipped, with the original price intact on the spine, lower front face, and lower front flap, and with minor loss confined to the spine ends and flap fold corners. The spine shows mild toning and scuffing and there is light wear to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.c (volume) A95.1.a (jacket), Woods/ICS A39(aa.2), Langworth p.156.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: This is the first edition, first printing, in dust jacket. Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience.The khaki cloth unique to the first printing of this edition is notoriously prone to scuffing, wear, and soiling, the contents proved highly susceptible to spotting, and the first printing dust jacket has become quite scarce in anything approaching collector-worthy condition. This copy is good plus in a good plus dust jacket. The khaki cloth binding shows some typical scuffing with a lightly bumped lower front cover corner and a mild forward lean. There is a single, tiny, and unobtrusive bookworm hole at the upper right rear cover, with a corresponding scar to the rear pastedown. The contents retain a crisp feel with no previous ownership marks, moderate age-toning, and mild spotting primarily confined to the first and final few leaves. The dust jacket is unique to the first printing, with distinctive differences to later printings (and even some later first printings). This dust jacket is substantially complete, with minor loss confined to the flap fold and hinge extremities. The jacket shows definite overall soiling, as well as a rectangular dark patch to a blank portion of the upper spine below the author's name, perhaps caused by a long-lost label or sticker.The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. The virtue of this particular copy lies in the opportunity to acquire a sound and presentable jacketed first printing at a comparatively affordable price; this is the least expensive jacketed first we have offered in quite some time.An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.a, Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156. Item #007457
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: This is an exquisitely finely bound first edition, first printing of Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Thoughts and Adventures has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience.The elegant, dark green, full Morocco goatskin binding features a hubbed spine with gilt-rule framed and decorated bands, gilt rules at the spine head and tail, Churchills ancestral Marlborough arms in gilt on the front cover, and a red calf spine label. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, a green silk ribbon marker, gold and green silk head and tail bands, and elaborately gilt-tooled turn-ins framing sumptuous marbled endpapers. This compellingly handsome example of the fine binders craft is a reminder to collectors that not all fine bindings are created equal.The volume is housed in a stout, green buckram slipcase with Churchills ancestral Marlborough arms in gilt on the right side.Condition is magnificently fine. The exceptional binding shows no wear or blemishes. The first edition contents are well suited to the binding, immaculately crisp and clean with no spotting or previous ownership marks. The gilt page edges are likewise pristine. The slipcase is in fine condition.An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.a, Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156. Item #007457
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2262.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The second impression of the first edition, also dated November 1932 [ICS A39a. Langworth p. 156]. Original dark green ribbed cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to front and spine, in dust jacket. The publisher had to scramble to meet an immediate demand, Langworth notes: the first impression was 4000 copies, and this second impression numbered 1000 -- the jacket was identical to that of the original issue. The jacket here is toned with only moderate rubbing and edge-wear. Covers are very clean and bright. There is some toning to edges and endpapers, some slight foxing to front and rear leaves, and an old owner's blind-stamp to bottom of title-page. Old Glasgow bookseller's label (Jackson, Wylie & Co.) inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really sound and handsome copy. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's bookmark laid in. 320pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1932.
Price: US$4335.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 8vo. Gilt lettered khaki green cloth. The book has had some damp to the bottom third but virtually not affecting the dust jacket. Light splashes to the fore-edge, and very light staining to a couple of pages in the very edge of the margin. Dust jacket with light edge wear, some very light damp staining visible to the spine foot, the spine with several small scratches and a little darkened, but a good clean copy overall in a nice dust jacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: This is a prize for collectors. This jacketed copy of the first edition, first printing would be impressive for condition alone approaching near fine in a near fine, complete dust jacket. Rendering this copy exceptional is that fact that the binding is an unrecorded variant. The previously recorded binding, unique to the first printing, is a khaki cloth characterized by Churchills bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, as "Moderate olive brown embossed calico-texture cloth". Later first printings and all subsequent printings (a total of four printings of the first edition) were recorded by Cohen in a significantly darker "dark greyish green" cloth with an entirely different "dotted-line grain". As can be seen in the listing images, this original publishers binding is quite different from either a distinctly lighter, pale green/olive cloth in a tighter weave. We have never seen or heard of another bound thus. The logical speculation is that this cloth was used sparingly and very early in the first printing binding process. The volume has clearly spent life jacketed. Despite a stain on the front cover ostensibly from incidental moisture exposure or handling the binding is bright and clean as only a jacketed copy can be. The color is unequivocally original; we note absolutely no color difference between the spine, covers, and the cloth turn-ins bordering the pastedowns. We note virtually no wear, the binding perfectly square with sharp corners. The contents are atypically clean and bright with a crisp, unread feel. In case there is any doubt, differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. We find no spotting and no previous ownership marks. The first printing dust jacket is complete, with no loss. Trivial wear is confined to extremities, hinges, and flap folds. Soiling is negligible and shelf presentation is excellent, with only the slightest color shift between the spine and faces. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, archival quality clear cover. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects was first published in 1932. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. From the original front flap blurb: "Whether he is dealing with personal reminiscences, or telling us his views on any subject under the sun, Mr. Churchill stamps the page with his own vivid personality." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written." Bibliographic reference: Cohen A95.1.a (unrecorded variant binding), Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, Winston. THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
Price: US$5088.64 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth lettered in gilt in printed buff dustwrapper A fine copy, with an early ownership name on the front end paper and some foxing to the prelims in a very near fine dustwrapper, with just a trace of wear to the head of the spine. An unusually crisp, clean and well preserved copy. Photographic frontispiece and a number of cartoons in the text. The second part of Churchill's autobiography covering the early part of his political career in the form of self contained journalistic essays. Uncommon in a dustwrapper, particularly one so well preserved.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Thoughts and Adventures.. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$5475.12 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, rare in the jacket. "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers, Thoughts and Adventures comprises essays on a wide array of subjects, attesting not only to the breadth of the author's comprehension but of his personal experience" (Langworth, p. 154). The essays muse on his career, his hobbies, the First World War, on politics, and the future. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Cohen A95.1a; Woods A39(a). Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original dark green cloth (second binding issue, following those in olive-brown cloth), spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece, several cartoons in text. A hint of rubbing to unclipped jacket and a few trivial nicks and chips at extremities: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, Winston S.. Thoughts and Adventures.. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$5797.18 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. The second volume of Churchill's autobiographical writings, covering his early political career, the battle of Sidney Street, a near silence on Gallipoli, service on the western front, the negotiation of the Irish settlement, thoughts on the "Mass effects of modern life" and life "Fifty years hence". Uncommon in jacket A collection of Churchill's magazine and newspaper journalism written in the same lighter, informal style as My Early Life, the success of Thoughts and Adventures came as a considerable surprise to the publisher. Published on 10 November 1932 in a run of 4,000, three additional printings of 1,000 were required in the same month, two of them before publication, Butterworth writing to Churchill: "We are truly delighted at this success which confounds the Jonahs of the Bookselling trade.To keep pace with the increasing demand, we had to get both printers and binders to work overtime. The sheets were delivered by passenger train, and the cases were made by the binders in advance" (quoted in Cohen). A very difficult book to find in a jacket. Cohen A95; Woods A39(a). Octavo. Original olive cloth, title gilt to spine and front board. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. A few indentations to fore-edge. The highly prized dust jacket in strikingly good condition, unclipped, with just a slight split at head of front fold and minor rubbing.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: This is a beautifully fine jacketed copy of the first edition, first printing quite scarce thus. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects was first published in 1932. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. From the original front flap blurb: "Whether he is dealing with personal reminiscences, or telling us his views on any subject under the sun, Mr. Churchill stamps the page with his own vivid personality." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written." The khaki cloth unique to the first printing of this edition is notoriously prone to scuffing, wear, and soiling, the contents proved highly susceptible to spotting, and the first printing dust jacket has become quite scarce in anything approaching collector-worthy condition. This copy is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is entirely complete and unusually clean. We note only fractional wear to extremities. Spine presentation is impressive, with only a trivial hint of toning and soiling and a tiny scuff to the black rule at the spine head. Short closed tears of approximately .75 inch at the upper hinges and lower front hinge disappear beneath the removable, archival quality clear dust jacket protector. The book beneath is clean and bright as only jacketed copies can be. The khaki cloth binding is exceptional square, strikingly clean, and vividly bright with sharp corners. The contents remain crisp and bright. The book feels unread. We find no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting endemic to this edition is exceptionally light within, where it is confined to the endsheets and prelims. Externally, spotting is light on the otherwise bright fore and bottom edges, heavier to the top edge. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A95.1.a, Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Thoughts and Adventures. Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1932.
Price: US$6200.00 + shipping
Description: This is an extraordinary jacketed copy of the first edition, first printing the finest we have encountered, housed in a full tan Morocco goatskin Solander.Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety of subjects. It has been called "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between two hard covers" and reflects the two qualities that so characterize Churchill's life - a remarkable breadth of both mind and life experience. The khaki cloth unique to the first printing of this edition is notoriously prone to scuffing, wear, and soiling, the contents proved highly susceptible to spotting, and the first printing dust jacket has become quite scarce in anything approaching collector-worthy condition. This copy is truly fine in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is unique to the first printing, with distinctive differences to later printings (and even some later first printings). This dust jacket is entirely complete and strikingly clean. We note only fractional wear to extremities mostly just a tiny bit of wrinkling at the spine head - and a few tiny blemishes. Spine presentation is impressive, with no appreciable toning and only incidental soiling, mostly confined to the lower front joint. The jacket is protected within a clear, removable, archival cover. The book beneath is magnificently clean and bright as only the best jacketed copies can be. The khaki cloth binding is exceptional square, immaculately clean, and vividly bright with sharp corners and only the most trivial hints of shelf wear, entirely confined to the edges. The contents are crisp and bright. The book feels unread. We find no previous ownership marks. Most impressive, we find no spotting. Even the fore and bottom edges are immaculate, the top edge showing just a little shelf dust. The book is housed in a tan Morocco goatskin Solander with rounded spine, raised spine bands, twin black spine labels, and tan, suede-lined interior. Condition of the Solander is as new.An original blurb for Thoughts and Adventures encapsulates as far as is possible the wide range of the chapters within: "These true stories concern such things as the tides that make a politician change his mind; the domination of chance in human lives; the cartoonists who mocked Churchill; the chances and events that occurred while he was in the trenches; phases of the war seen from intimate participation with the high commands; flying experiences in 1912; the Irish; the future; and contemporary change." In a 31 May 1932 letter to his publisher about the book, Churchill characterized it thus: ".although there is no one single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written."Reference: Cohen A95.1.b, Woods/ICS A39(aa.1), Langworth p.156.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.