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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First Canadian Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
This is a very good example of the First Canadian Edition in unclipped dust jackets, as issued in a red cardboard slipcase with photo frontis. The books and dust jackets…
LIFE: “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” (Volume I, Pt. III “The Birth of Britain”)
-Magazine Article-
The pre-publication serialization of Churchill’s A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. [Pages 64-66, 68-73, 77-78, 80, 83-86, 91 (17 pages)] This is an original copy in very good condition….
LIFE: “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” (Volume II, Pt. IV “An Age of Unrest”)
-Magazine Article-
The pre-publication serialization of Churchill’s A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. [Pages 58-60, 62-68, 70, 73-76 (15 pages)] This is an original copy in very good condition….
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding-
This First English edition set exquisitely rebound by Bayntun of Bath (for the late-Kroch and Brentano’s bookstore of Chicago) in full navy-blue morocco leather, has Churchill’s signature in gilt across…
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding by “Zaensdorf”-
This First English edition set is a signed binding by the legendary London-based Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (author of THE ART OF BOOKBINDING) in full cognac-colored oasis leather. The endpapers are…
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-The Chartwell Edition-
Published simultaneously with the First English edition but sold by subscription only, this Chartwell Edition constituted the first illustrated edition of Churchill’s monumental history. Here is a very good set….
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
This is a very good First English edition set, in unclipped dust jackets that are exceptionally fresh, bright and unfaded. Volume I dust jacket has an infinitesimal chip at the…
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Presentation Set Signed in All Four Volumes-
This mixed First English edition presentation set, in unclipped dust jackets, is signed “Winston S. Churchill” and hand-dated “1959” in ink in each volume. The set was presented by Churchill…
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Taiwanese Pirated One-Volume Unabridged Edition in Dust Jacket-
A fascinating anomaly, this one-volume unabridged edition was illicitly produced by Taiwanese publishers in 1964 by photo-reproducing the complete texts from the four-volume Cassell (Sixth) edition and then binding the…
The Official Biography: SIGNED FIRST ENGLISH EDITION Set
-Signed by Randolph Churchill, Clementine Churchill and Martin Gilbert-
This First English edition set, in dust jackets, is one of the more extraordinary examples of the Official Biography that we have ever encountered; signed in sequence by Randolph Churchill,…
THE WORLD CRISIS
-Mixed Early English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
…Printing of the First English edition, according to Cohen (published February 1930 and denoted by the publisher as the ‘5th Impression of the Third English edition’). The dust jacket retains…
LIFE: “Sir Winston’s Hideaway”
-Magazine Article-
“Churchill paints in Sicily while reading his HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES.” [Page 47 (2 pages)] An original copy in very good condition….