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Compiled By Randolph S. Churchill, M.P.. Into Battle. Speeches By the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Cassell and Company, London England, 1941.

Price: US$11.23 + 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

Churchill, Winston S.. The Premier's Clarion Calls to Courage. Valentine & Sons, Dundee & London, 1941.

Price: US$15.59 + 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

Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill M.P.. Into Battle Speeches By the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P. War Speeches. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.

Price: US$18.60 + 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$19.49 + 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 (1874-1965). Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Into battle / speeches by Winston S. Churchill; compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London : Cassell, 1941.

Price: US$20.05 + 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

Churchill, Randolph S.. INTO BATTLE; SPEECHES BY THE RIGHT HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1941.

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

Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Into battle / speeches by Winston S. Churchill; compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London : Cassell, 1941.

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 Churchill’s 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.

Randolph S. Churchill. Into Battle: Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill P.C., M.P.. London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney: Cassell & Company, 1941.

Price: US$101.36 + 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 Churchill’s 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 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.

Churchill, Winston Spencer (Randolph S Churchill: Compiler). Into Battle (Winston Churchill's War Speeches). Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1941.

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.

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 Churchill’s 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.

Churchill, Winston S. Eade, Charles & Curchill, Randolph S. (eds.). War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill: Eight Volumes. Cassell and Company, Limited, London, 1941.

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$487.33 + 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

Winston S. Churchill. The War Speeches, a full set of seven British first editions - Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, and Secret Session Speeches. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941.

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 Churchill’s 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 owner’s 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 owner’s 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.

Winston S. Churchill. THE WAR SPEECHES -First English Edition Set. Cassell and Co. 1941-1946, London, 1941.

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.

Winston S. Churchill. THE WAR SPEECHES -First English Edition Set-. Cassell and Co. 1941-1946, London, 1941.

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.

Churchill, Winston S. ; Eade, Charles [ed.]. War Speeches [7 volumes]) - - Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle ; The End of the Beginning ; Onwards to Victory ; The Dawn of Liberation ; Victory ; Secret Session Speeches. ( all first editions ). Cassell and Company, Ltd 1941 to 1946, London, 1941.

Price: US$2923.98 + 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

Churchill, Winston S.. War Speeches [Seven Volumes]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. [ALL FIRST EDITIONS]. Cassell and Company, Limited 1941 - 1946, London, 1941.

Price: US$2923.98 + 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

Churchill, Winston S. ; Eade, Charles [ed.]. War Speeches [Seven Volumes]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. [ALL FIRST EDITIONS]. Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1941 - 1946, London, 1941.

Price: US$2923.98 + 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

Churchill, Winston S. Winston Churchill's War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, Secret Session Speeches.. Cassell and Company Ltd 1941-46, London, 1941.

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. Churchill’s speeches “constitute 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 war” (Randolph S. Churchill). With 50 half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

CHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston Spencer (1874-1965), [CHURCHILL, Randolph S., editor]. [War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6, 1941.

Price: US$3183.89 + 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

CHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston Spencer (1874-1965), [CHURCHILL, Randolph S., editor]. [War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6, 1941.

Price: US$3248.86 + 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

CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.. WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle; The Unrelenting struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.. Cassell and Company. London. 1941-46, 1941.

Price: US$3248.86 + 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

CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The War Speeches. [Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory and Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill and Charles Eade.]. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1941-46, 1941.

Price: US$3833.66 + 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$4548.41 + 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

Winston S. Churchill. The War Speeches, a full set of seven British first editions - Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, and Secret Session Speeches, the final volume an author's presentation copy inscribed and dated by Churchill in 1947 and including a typed presentation letter signed by Churchill on his Hyde Park Gate stationery, the original envelope, and the author's printed "WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF Winston S. Churchill" presentation card. Cassell and Company Ltd. 1941-1946, London, 1941.

Price: US$25000.00 + shipping

Description: This full, seven-volume set of British first edition, first printings of Winston Churchill’s 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 Stokes’s 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 Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, p.250) In addition to Churchill’s inscription, Churchill’s 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 Stokes’s known dioramas. Churchill served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers during the First World War. Certainly, it may be imagined that Stokes’s 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.