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MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-Signed Presentation First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-1938 | Register to View Price

This virtually mint First English edition set in dust jackets is inscribed and signed in Volume I: “To Bishop Welldon, from Winston S. Churchill – September 1933.” BISHOP JAMES WELLDON was the headmaster of Harrow School from 1885-1898 and an acknowledged powerful influence on Winston Churchill’s early life. When the young Churchill nearly flunked the […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding-

By: Winston S. Churchill

$3,500.00

A handsome leatherbound First English edition set, bound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath in full tan morocco, all edges gilt, with marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered and elaborately ornamented on the spine with a gilt-tooled drum and flags motif in six compartments with five raised bands. The contents are fine, with light scattered foxing to the prelims. […]

MARLBOROUGH His Life and Times – VOLUME II

-First English Edition Advance Proof Copy in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1934 | $1,500.00

This is a Publisher’s Advance Proof for Volume II of the First English edition. It is a softcover wrapped in a correct Volume II dust jacket, which has rectangular loss across the upper right front face, else fine. The volume itself is in virtually mint condition. It matches the final published edition, including all the […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Set in Slipcases and Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | $4,500.00

This is a very good First American edition set, all volumes in their rare, correct dust jackets, as issued, in the original printed slipcases. [With apologies for the complicated lineage:] Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I divided into two books (designated as Volumes I & II) and slipcased as a set. Scribners […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

$600.00

This is a very good First American edition set, without dust jackets. Volumes I and II have ink gift inscriptions, dated “Christmas 1933” on the front free endpapers; Volumes III and IV have the same former-owner name in ink on the front free endpapers. The cloth of Volume VI is very faintly damp-stained; the spine […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Presentation Set in Uniform Dust Jackets and Rare Slipcase-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | Register to View Price

This is a virtually mint First American edition set wrapped in the final-state, uniform blue and gold dust jackets and preserved in the publisher’s green card slipcase, which does show its age, but is very rarely seen. Laid-into Volume I is the publisher’s printed presentation slip: “WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR.” Scribners published the […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-English "Presentation" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1939 | $1,600.00

An unusually fine set in unclipped dust jackets of the hyperbolically titled “Limited Presentation Edition” that publisher Harrap issued in December 1939 using remaining sheets from various printings, save for Volume I, which was reprinted expressly for this edition. Volume II is bound from the second printing of 1934; Volumes III and IV from original […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-English "Presentation" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1939 | $675.00

A good set, in worn dust jackets of the hyperbolically titled “Limited Presentation Edition” that publisher Harrap issued in December 1939 using remaining sheets from various printings, save for Volume I, which was reprinted expressly for this edition. Volume II is bound from the second printing of 1934; Volumes III and IV from original First […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-Unabridged Two-Volume English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1966 | $500.00

This two-volume reprint edition, first published in 1947, was photo-lithographed from the original first English edition, compressed and printed on thinner paper, but left unabridged. It is a lovely set, here in unclipped dust jackets that are virtually mint, just darkened a bit on the spines, else fine. The contents are fine. A beautiful way […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First Canadian Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-1938 | $4,500.00

This is a very good set of of the rare First Canadian edition, in the even rarer dust jackets, which are generally in excellent condition, edge-chipped and darkened along the spines, else fine. The Canadian edition was largely bound from English edition sheets but in purple cloth. The dust jackets were printed identically to the […]

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MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-Deluxe Signed Limited Leatherbound First Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38

One of the jewels of the Churchill canon, this Deluxe Edition of MARLBOROUGH was issued in a limitation of 155 signed leatherbound sets; the only signed leatherbound Churchill first edition ever produced. Stunningly bound in full dark-orange Niger by Leighton Straker, the books are each gilt-stamped on the upper board with the Marlborough crest, gilt-lettered […]