MOVING CHURCHILL #12: After Party
Our Farewell Event on May 14 was a bittersweet success. Overflow crowd. Excellent questions from ICS Executive Director Adam Howard. Candid answers from Chartwell Booksellers proprietor Barry Singer. Further questions (of pertinence and impertinence) from those in attendance, including Barry’s daughter, Lea — who asked her father which book not by Churchill was his favorite book on Chartwell’s shelves. (Answer: The Great Gatsby and Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin’s exquisite novel of New York City, which was the store’s very first book reading back in 1983.)
The evening was recorded for broadcast on the ICS podcast, “The End of the Beginning.” As soon as that is released, we will share it with you.
We did so want to announce where the heck Chartwell Booksellers is heading after June 30th, but we still could not with any finality. Negotiations drag on. When they are concluded (one way or another), you will know.
One thing is certain. In anticipation of the cost of moving, as of June 1 we will begin charging a nominal $8 for shipping on all standard online orders. If you want to take advantage of our ebbing free shipping policy, now is the time.
As for SALE books, we have a surplus of First Edition Official Biography volumes in our stockroom and little time to catalogue them. We’ve decided therefore to try something new:
A “BLIND DATE SALE.”
Pick a First English or First American edition, with dust jacket or without, and we will send you the best copy we have at a bargain price. You don’t even have to swipe.
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
“BLIND DATE SALE”
Individual First Edition Volumes
VOLUME I (“Youth” 1874-1900)
First English Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
First American Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
Rare Miniature First American Book Club Edition
VOLUME II (“Young Statesman’ 1901-1914)
First English Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
First American Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
Rare Miniature First American Book Club Edition
VOLUME III (“The Challenge of War” 1914-1916)
First English Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
First American Edition In Dust Jacket / No Dust Jacket
Rare Miniature First American Book Club Edition
VOLUME IV (“The Stricken World” 1917-1922)
First English Edition In Dust Jacket
VOLUME V (“The Prophet of Truth” 1922-1939)
First English Edition In Dust Jacket
VOLUMES VI & VII are Sold Out.
VOLUME VIII: “Never Despair” 1945-1965
First American Edition In Dust Jacket
MOVING CHURCHILL
We will surely continue to share updates weekly.
And more special SALE books.
(Winston Churchill moved some 20 times in his adult life. We are also sharing each of these.
One-by-one. Just for the record.)
Move #12
62 ONSLOW GARDENS
In November 1929, upon returning from an extended visit to the U.S., Winston Churchill rented a house in London at 62 Onslow Gardens belonging to Clementine Churchill’s once-notorious cousin, Venetia Montagu, with whom Prime Minister H.H. Asquith had been so famously infatuated. Winston and Clementine resided there for two months, while also commuting to Chartwell.
Still more to come.
With our thanks and best wishes,
Chartwell Booksellers