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London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. First English Edition (Cohen A18.1) (Woods A9). Softcover. Very Good. 8vo (136 pages [i-iv] v-ix [x-xii] xiii-xv [xvi] 1-118 [119-120]). This is, without question, the rarest Churchill first edition available today; an original copy of the First edition in its original card wraps, as issued. The front cover here has triangular losses at each corner, as well as some surface chipping, but it is attached and intact. The front cover has also darkened with age and there is a faint pencil marking visible near the publisher’s name. The spine has fragmented but is entirely present. Though published blank, the spinehas been hand-lettered in now-faded ink: “Free Trade. Churchill, M.P.” The rear cover (which advertises MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY) is brighter and less worn. The binding is strong and the contents are fine, clean and unfoxed. The title page is stamped: “Reference Dept —The National Union — 10 Apr 1906.” The book is preserved in a simple blue cloth…
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FOR FREE TRADE [First Edition] A Collection of Speeches delivered at Manchester or in the House of Commons during the Fiscal controversy preceding the late General Election
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Sail On, O Ship of State! The Longfellow Verse in Mr. Roosevelt’s Message to Mr. Churchill.
by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Winston S. Churchill. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
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Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [1941]. The historic secret Atlantic Conference was held between August 9th and 12th, 1941 on a warship anchored in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. At that momentous meeting, the two leaders and their military aides agreed upon critical policies for the conduct of a joint war against Germany, even though the U.S. was still officially neutral and would remain so until December 8. The meetings culminated in the Atlantic Charter, a declaration of principles issued a few days after the conference. Often compared to Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Charter also laid the foundation for the United Nations Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942.
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Mr. Brodrick's Army.
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London: Arthur L. Humphreys,, 1903. Legendarily rare A black tulip of the Churchill canon, surviving in only a handful of copies, long recognized by even the most dedicated Churchill collectors as "virtually impossible to acquire" (Langworth, p. 65). This is the second and only realistically obtainable edition. Mr. Brodrick's Army begins with Churchill's Commons speech on the New Army Scheme of 13 May 1901, his first major set-piece address. "I took six weeks to prepare this speech, and learnt it so thoroughly off by heart that it hardly mattered where I began it or how I turned it". This volume gathers together his interventions in opposition to St John Brodrick's plans for increased military spending - "the very subject that had toppled his father" (Woods, p. 65). The first edition was minutely printed in simple self-wrappers; the second was printed with wide margins, bound in bright wrappers, and is altogether rather handsome. "Humphreys initially chose a cheaper production format in order to…
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Addresses.
by ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., & Winston S. Churchill.
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Washington, DC: The White House, Christmastide,, 1942. Presentation copy from FDR to his Secretary of War First edition, number 6 of 100 copies only, inscribed by Roosevelt to his secretary of war on the front free endpaper: "For Henry L. Stimson with the affectionate regards of his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt Christmas 1942". A superb association copy of this volume collecting Roosevelt and Churchill's early war speeches. Stimson (1867-1950) served as US secretary of war from 1940 to 1945, the whole period of US involvement in the Second World War, under both Roosevelt and Truman. In a very long career, he had also served as secretary of war under President Taft from 1911 to 1913, and as secretary of state from 1929 to 1933 under President Hoover. A lifelong Republican, Stimson was appointed to the position to strengthen bipartisan support for Roosevelt's foreign policy and preparation for war. Despite their political differences, the pair had a strong working relationship. Stimson's overall…
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I feel I can count upon you at any time when a need may arise - A 17 July 1922 autograph signed letter from then-Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston S. Churchill to T. E. Lawrence "of Arabia" accepting Lawrence's resignation from the Colonial Office, accompanied by the original franked envelope addressed and initialed in Churchill's hand, the letter and envelope archivally framed with a limited and numbered intaglio drawing of Lawrence and Churchill by Curtis Hooper, signed and numbered by Churchill's daughter, Sarah
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Colonial Office, Downing Street, London, 17 July 1922. Letter. This is Winston Churchills 17 July 1922 autograph signed letter to T. E. Lawrence accepting Lawrences resignation from the Colonial Office, accompanied by the original, franked envelope addressed and initialed in Churchills hand. This letter underscores the friendship and collaboration of two titanic twentieth century personalities and their shared work in securing post-First World War peace and political stability in the Middle East. From early 1921 to mid-1922, T. E. Lawrence of Arabia worked for then-Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston S. Churchill. Churchill had asked a reticent Lawrence to commit for a year. He gave Churchill more than he had promised, both in time and in achieved outcomes. Then, in July 1922, Churchill reluctantly released Lawrence from service. The autograph letter signed by Churchill fills the entire 8 x 10 inch (20.3 x 25.4 cm) front panel of a single, folded sheet of Churchills Colonial…
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An archive containing correspondence between Winston S. Churchill and his close friend, the publishing magnate Viscount Camrose, as well as Camroses sons, the correspondence spanning sixteen years, from 1946 to 1962, and including seventeen instances of Churchills signature, as well as various salutations, valedictions, emendations, and annotations in Churchills hand
by Winston S. Churchill, William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, Isaiah Berlin, Emery Reves, and others
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Including Chartwell, Hyde Park Gate, Hotel de la Mamounia in Marrakech, New York City, 10 Downing Street, and Villa Politi in Syracuse, Sicily, 1946 - 1962. Letter. This remarkable archive contains correspondence from Winston S. Churchill to his close friend, William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954) and Camroses sons, centered on the conception, writing, and publication of Churchills Second World War memoirs. Churchills signature appears seventeen different times in this archive, along with various salutations, valedictions, emendations, and annotations. The correspondence spans sixteen years, from 15 October 1946 to 11 October 1962, detailing multiple aspects of Churchills war memoirs, from concerns attending initial conception before Churchill began writing to submittal of the final words of the sixth and final volume. Among other things, Churchills letters in this archive illuminate Churchills Private & Confidential considerations, his exacting engagement in editing…
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Corrected draft typescript, signed, of an article on disarmament.
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31 January, 1931. WARS AND RUMOURS OF WAR WOULD CEASE FOREVER" - THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND DISARMAMENT Extensively corrected typescript for one of a series of articles on foreign affairs commissioned from Churchill by the Hearst newspapers, every page with authorial proofing, corrections, emendations, and interpolations. Churchill takes as his theme the recent report of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament presented to the League of Nations. In his powerful and highly influential article of 1924 "Shall we commit suicide?" Churchill had said that "to sustain and aid the League of Nations is the duty of all", but his support was always more in hope than expectation. Here he comments with world-weary cynicism on responses to the Commission. "All the foreign Ministers of all the countries lifted up their voices and sang for joy that peace and concord would now reign... and that disarmament, wars and rumours of wars would cease for ever." But in reality there was no such harmony, and the "victorious…
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Large Photograph Signed Winston S. Churchill and Signed by 43 Other Leaders Including Anthony Eden, Jan Smuts, Lord Beaverbrook and Clement Attlee
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The Second World War.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1948-53. Inscribed to his old friend and Bezique rival An excellent presentation set of Churchill's wartime memoirs, inscribed in four volumes by the author to Sylvia Henley, "one of those who had known Churchill best, and longest... a frequent guest at Chartwell" (Gilbert, p.307). Four volumes are inscribed by the author: "For Sylvia from Winston 1948" (Vol. I), "For Sylvia from Winston 1951" (Vol. IV), "To Sylvia from Winston S. Churchill 1952" (Vol. V), and "Sylvia from Winston 1954 Bezique Grand Cup" (Vol. VI). Sylvia has noted in pencil after the inscription in the sixth volume "This refers to W's victory over me at Chartwell Jan 3 1954". Sylvia Henley (1882-1980) was Clementine Churchill's cousin, with whom she had a particularly "strong and long-lasting friendship" (Jenkins, p. 138). Along with Jock Colville, Sylvia was one of Churchill's most frequent and favoured Bezique opponents; Bezique was Churchill's favourite game, he was an expert player and…
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Large Family Archive of the Benwell Rees - Family, including William Benwell Rees (brother to actor Benedict Cumberbatch's grandmother Helen Rees, by marriage to British Diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, who was Consul in Romania, Turkey and Lebanon ). The archive includes at least one manuscript letter by Henry Arnold Cumberbatch and around one thousand documents chronicling the lives of the ex-patriate Benwell Rees family from 1890-1970 in Alexandria and Monaco, including William Benwell Rees, whose marriage to Etheldreda Blanche Barker cemented the family's role in the highest circles of Alexandria life. The archive also charts their son Basil Rees' decade in Monaco under Princess Grace and Prince Rainer III where he served as President of the British Association in the 1950's-'60s and solicited a letter written by Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, on Winston Churchill's behalf on Chartwell headed paper in which the former Prime Minister declined to attend an event in Monaco [signed by Montague B
by [Cumberbatch, Benedict] Cumberbatch, Henry Arnold / Rees, Helen / Basil Benwell Rees / William Benwell Rees / Etheldreda Blanche Barker / [Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne [Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill]]
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1902. Alexandria / Monaco / etc., c. 1902 - 1967. Octavo. Half Morocco. Bindings stronger rubbed and slightly damaged.
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My Early Life: A Roving Commission.
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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited,, 1930. His "elegiac" autobiography, in the famously elusive dust jacket First edition, first impression, in a very presentable example of the extremely rare dust jacket, retaining much of its vibrant colour. A conspicuously attractive copy of Churchill's "witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial order in which he had grown up" (ODNB). My Early Life, Churchill's first volume of sustained biography, is a highly entertaining account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war correspondent in Cuba, and service attached to the Malakand Field Force on the NW Frontier of India, charging with the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South Africa during the Boer War. This copy is of the second state, with 12 lines of Churchill titles on the half-title verso, and in the second state binding, with 5-line lettering to the front cover (the first state has…
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Yousuf Karsh Signed Winston S. Churchill Portrait.
by Karsh, Yousuf. [Winston S. Churchill]
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Burn Everything" - A remarkable archive accumulated by Charles Barker, Chief Clerk to British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill throughout the Second World War, including a wartime presentation copy of The World Crisis, Churchill's history of the First World War, inscribed and dated by Churchill as a 1942 Christmas gift, as well as 70 individual items, including additional books, personal correspondence, photographs, and various mementos and ephemera, such as noteworthy invitations, tickets, and passes
by Winston S. Churchill, Charles Barker, Anthony Bevir, Brendan Bracken, John Colville, John Martin, Sheila Minto, and others
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London and various: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and various other agencies, entities, and individuals, 1941-1979. This remarkable archive belonged to Charles Barker and centers on his service as Chief Clerk to British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill from 1940-1945, throughout Churchill's Second World War premiership. At the heart of the archive is a magnificent presentation copy of Churchills history of the First World War, a wartime edition presented to Barker as a gift for Christmas, 1942, featuring not only Churchills dated inscription, but also a typed and dated 10 Downing Street presentation slip. This item is but one of more than 70 individual items in the archive, ranging from books to correspondence and envelopes to photographs, to various mementos, including noteworthy invitations, tickets, and passes. Each of these items is interesting. Many are treasures in their own right. Provenance This archive came from the collection of British army veteran and noted Churchillian Major Alan…
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The Story of 150 Staging Post and the Airlift to the Yalta Conference February 1945: A truly singular Second World War album belonging to, and compiled by, R.A.F. Group Captain Walter J. Pickard, containing meticulously captioned photographs and mementos of his work flying VIPs during the 1945 Yalta Conference, a number of Secret docu
by Compiled by R.A.F. Group Captain Walter J. Pickard, inscribed by Winston S. Churchill and with contributions or signatures of dozens of others
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Saki, Crimea, U.S.S.R.: Privately compiled, 1945. Album. This singular and compelling Second World War album was painstakingly compiled, decorated, and annotated by Royal Air Force Group Captain Walter J. Pickard. Full of mementos, documents, and photographs, the album chronicles the staging, preparation, and flights which conveyed Winston Churchill, as well as other British and American delegates, to the Yalta Conference in 1945, earning Pickard the accolades of his commanders, the appreciation of his Prime Minister, and the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.). Not least among the albums contents is the dated inscription of Winston S. Churchill and signed correspondence from Churchills private secretary confirming that Churchill personally received, examined, and inscribed this album, and conveying Churchills appreciation to Pickard. The album is 100 numbered pages, bound in leather-covered boards with a hand-labeled title Saki affixed diagonally on the front cover. Saki refers to…
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, the publisher's signed, limited, finely bound issue of the first edition, one of only five unnumbered sets and the only one marked "Presentation" and not only signed by Churchill, but also inscribed and dated by the publisher
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London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1933. Signed and limited issue of the first edition. Full leather. This signed, limited, and finely bound publisher's presentation set of Churchill's Marlborough would be remarkable for condition alone, but this is also one of just five unnumbered sets reserved by the publisher. This is the only one of the five known to be hand-marked as "Presentation". Churchill signed just below the limitation statement "Winston S. Churchill". But this copy is also inscribed by the publisher. Just above Churchills signature in the space where the limitation number would normally be written, the word Presentation is inked. On the half title, in four lines in the publishers hand, is inked the inscription To Steve | from | George | 1933. Condition is excellent, approaching near fine. The spines are only lightly sunned, that of Volume I showing a few freckles. Light spotting appears primarily confined to the untrimmed fore edges, only occasionally and lightly…
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Marlborough.: His Life and Times.
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,, 1933-38. Took its place at once among the classics of historical writing First edition, signed limited issue, number 55 of 155 copies signed by the author. This is the only signed limited issue of any of Churchill's writings; few sets retain the original slipcases, fewer still in such nice condition. Churchill's ancestor the 1st Duke of Marlborough led allied forces to victory against Louis XIV. Churchill worked on his biography for almost a decade, and was given exclusive access to the Blenheim archives to research the book. On publication, the work "took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor's leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the domination of the continent by a single power, it was also a source of inspiration to Churchill in his campaign against appeasement" (ODNB). 4 volumes, large octavo. Original orange Niger goatskin by Leighton-Straker, spines lettered in gilt with single gilt rule at head and…
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Working papers for A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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[c.1956-58]. Churchill's masterpiece takes form A significant archive of material from the composition of Churchill's classic A History of the English Speaking Peoples, including a galley proof chapter of "The United States" initialled by Churchill. The archive was preserved by Denis Kelly (1937-1992), a key player in Churchill's large team of historians and assistants with whom he produced the work. Kelly was a barrister by training and first met Churchill in 1947 when he was chosen to catalogue Churchill's papers. Waving his arm at the tottering piles, Churchill told Kelly "your task, my boy, is to make Cosmos out of Chaos" (cited in Gilbert, p. 331). This archive shows he had much the same role in the writing of the History. Most of the material relates to the third and fourth volumes of the history (including chapters on the American Revolution, Peninsular War, Napoleon, the Indian Empire, and the Seven Years War). It chiefly comprises two components: typescript précis of the works of other…
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The World Crisis, Six Volumes
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Thornton Butter worth Limited, London, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English edition. All First editions. First Published April, 1923 stated on copyright page of first volume, and then all other volumes have subsequent dates. Volume 3 is INSCRIBED by Churchill on a front free end paper to Kenneth Dewar, who was a prominent and controversial figure in the British navy as well as a top adviser to Churchill. From Wikipedia --Churchill wrote an anti-Jellicoe tract in his World Crisis, Volume III which in large measure shared Dewar's views on tactics and even some diagrams.[38] Although Dewar would later become a supporter of the Labour Party, after Churchill was passed over for a cabinet position in 1931 Dewar wrote to him on 16 November, "I am very sorry to see that you are not in the new Cabinet. I had hoped you would go to the Admiralty and do very necessary work for the Navy." Volume 4 is annotated by Dewar with some fascinating comments on Churchill's version of events in…
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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
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London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1941-1946. First edition, first printings. Hardcover. This full, seven-volume set of British first edition, first printings of Winston Churchills Second World War speeches offers a vanishingly rare trifecta of virtues. First, the set as a whole is unequivocally the finest we have ever encountered. Second, the presentation volume therein the seventh and final volume is equally fine, magnificently well-preserved. Third, the presentation volume is not only signed by Churchill, but inscribed, dated, and accompanied by and signed presentation letter from Churchill, providing definitive and compelling provenance. The presentation inscription, letter, envelopes, and cards Secret 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,…
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The World Crisis, a remarkable set of British first editions with five dated inscriptions from Churchill to his Aunt and significant annotations by her son, Churchill's Cousin, concerning the Battle of Jutland
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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. This is an extraordinary inscribed and annotated British first edition set of Churchill's history of the First World War. Each of the five books (the 1916-1918 book was issued in two volumes) is inscribed and dated by Churchill to his Aunt Clara. Clarita "Clara" Jerome Frewen (1851-1935) was the eldest sister of Churchill's mother and wife of Moreton Frewen, the famously slipshod editor of Churchill's first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Three inscriptions are dated pre-publication and all five are warmly personal, with Churchill using only his first name. The inscriptions alone would make the set a prize, but it is the second family association that makes the set a unique piece of history. The books passed to Clara's son and Churchill's first cousin, Captain Oswald Moreton Frewen (1887-1958). Oswald was a career naval officer who served under Churchill's leadership as First Lord of the Admiralty during both…
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