The War Speeches.: Compiled by Charles Eade in three volumes.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge,, 1953. First US collected edition, first printing, being the definitive edition of Churchill's war speeches, compiled by his literary secretary. During the war, Churchill's speeches were published in annual volumes. "Produced to cheap standards owing to wartime shortages and restrictions, the original volumes were all out of print by 1952. Cassell decided to reissue the war speeches in a new, expansive and comprehensive edition of three tall, elegant volumes printed in large type and generous margins on quality stock" (Langworth, p. 303). The American edition was issued from sheets of Cassell's first British edition, published the previous year. Only 500 sets of the American edition were made, and it is much scarcer than its British counterpart, more so with the slipcase. Langworth comments his dislike for the binding and jacket design, "but none of this matters because of the extreme rarity" (ibid). Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes. Three volumes, large octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, red cloth sides. With dust jackets, housed in original blue cloth slipcase. Jackets price-clipped, jacket of vol. I chipped at extremities with slight loss, others with only minor rubbing and nicking at extremities; slipcase a little rubbed with slight wear at extremities: fine copies in very good jackets and slipcase. Cohen A263.2. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998.