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ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-English Wartime "Cheap" Edition in Variant Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1940 | $2,500.00

Unsold copies of the first printing of ARMS AND THE COVENANT were re-issued as this so-called “Cheap Edition” by Harrap in June 1940. The books were untouched, the only new feature was a new dust jacket, printed a vivid yellow with deep red type. This is a very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket […]

ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-First English Edition without Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $850.00

This is an extremely beautiful copy of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth is uniquely unfaded, particularly along the fade-prone spine. The contents are fine, with light, scattered foxing to the fore-edge only. A discreet sticker from The [London] Times Book Club is affixed to the rear pastedown, else fine. Quite lovely.

ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-First English Edition without Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $350.00

This is a very good copy of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth has faded unevenly and somewhat blotchilly. The contents are fine, with frontis photo toning to the half-title, as per usual.

ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-English Wartime "Cheap" Edition in Variant Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1940 | $2,250.00

Unsold copies of the first printing of ARMS AND THE COVENANT were re-issued as this so-called “Cheap Edition” by Churchill’s publisher Harrap in June 1940, a month after he became Prime Minister. The only new feature was a new dust jacket, printed a vivid yellow with deep red type. This is a very good copy, […]

WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT

-First American Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $1,500.00

This is a very good copy of the First American edition in the dramatic dust jacket, which is unclipped, bright and clean on the front and rear faces but faded somewhat along the spine. There is a 1/2-inch sliver of loss at the upper corner of the front face and a nick on the spine, […]

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WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT

-First American Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $1,650.00

This is a very good copy of the First American edition in the dramatic dust jacket, which is unclipped, bright and clean on the front and rear faces, slightly faded at the spine, with a full-length crease along the spine length. There is fractional loss across the rear upper edge of the jacket wrapping around […]

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ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $2,500.00

This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in the very rare dust jacket, which is somewhat shelfworn and a trifle foxed and edge-chipped, with rubbing along the age-darkened spine and fractional losses at the spine head and tail, as well as the upper right corner tip of the front face. There […]

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ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-Signed First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | Register to View Price

This First English edition, in the extravagantly rare dust jacket, is signed and dated in ink on the front free endpaper: “Winston S. Churchill, August 1938,” on the eve of the Munich Agreement and just months after publication. The dust jacket is spotted lightly throughout, more pronounced across the rear face, but otherwise maintains its […]

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ARMS AND THE COVENANT

-Signed First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | Register to View Price

This very good copy of the First English edition, in the rare dust jacket, is signed and dated in ink in the month of publication by author and editor, both — father and son: “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill / Randolph S. Churchill / June 1938.” The unclipped dust jacket is shelfworn, toned on the […]

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WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT

-First American Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1938 | $2,000.00

This is a very good copy of the scarce First American edition of ARMS AND THE COVENANT, in the very rare dust jacket, which is unclipped and virtually mint. The contents are fine, with very faint tanning to the endpapers. Just about flawless.