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THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

By: Winston S. Churchill

1910 | Register to View Price

This copy of the rare first hardcover edition has been handsomely rebound in three-quarter red morroco leather over red linen covered boards, the spine elaborately lettered and gilt-tooled in six compartments with raised bands, the upper edge gilded, with lushly marbled endpapers. In his Churchill bibliography, Ronald Cohen reveals that this hardcover (“cased”) edition consisted […]

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

-First English Hardcover Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1910 | Register to View Price

This is an extravagantly rare copy of the first hardcover edition in very good condition. The hardcover (“cased”) edition “consisted of only 100 copies, bound on 20 December 1909, two weeks before the softcover edition was bound,” according to bibliographer Ronald Cohen. “It is, at least, very clear,” writes Cohen, “that only a few such […]

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

-American Reprint Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1970 | $95.00

As-new copy of the American edition of the rare 1970 reprint, in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine.

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

-First English Softcover Editions (First & Second States)-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1910 | Register to View Price

A rare combo set of both First and Second States of the First English Softcover edition (per Cohen). The First State has the misnumbered page 71 (numbered I) and the Appendix and Index at rear. The Second State has page 71 numbered correctly, plus a Second Appendix replacing the Index at rear. The front cover […]

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

By: Winston S. Churchill

1910 | Register to View Price

Bibliographer Ronald Cohen notes five distinct issues of the Softcover Edition that bore the promotional imprints of individual regional British newspapers. This copy of the Second State (with page 71 and a Second Appendix replacing the Index at rear) is emblazoned: “The Northern Echo Edition” (of Darlington, UK), a sixth issue not recorded by Cohen. […]

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THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS together with THE PEOPLE’S INSURANCE & THE PEOPLE’S BUDGET

-First English Editions of this Rare Trilogy-

By: Winston S. Churchill and David Lloyd George

1910-1911

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS was actually part of a trilogy of Liberal Party campaign treatises, along with THE PEOPLE’S BUDGET and THE PEOPLE’S INSURANCE (published in 1911), both authored by Churchill’s running mate, David Lloyd George. All three were published in virtually identical softcover formats by Hodder & Stoughton, printed on cheap, acidic paper that deteriorated […]