Books By Winston Churchill
Including books with Winston Churchill’s Speeches
The World Crisis
$500 – Folio Society
London, The Folio Society, 2007. A superb modern edition of Churchill’s WWI history, produced to the standard you would expect from The Folio Society. Books are Fine / As New in the original shrink wrap.
The Great War
$450 – Woods/ICS A31(db), Cohen A69.9.c, Langworth p.118
The Great War by Winston Churchill is an abridged and heavily illustrated version of The World Crisis, which was originally issued as 26 fortnightly parts. Most sets were later bound in case bindings which were available from the publishers.
Savrola: Winston Churchill – Scarce Chivers Edn.
$250 – Scarce Chivers Edition
This reprint was published for The Library Association and most copies went to Libraries, resulting in a modern rarity. Dark pink cloth. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. A true collector’s copy.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
$164 – Easton Press
Churchill’s first published book bound in leather by Easton Press. The binding is in dark green with elaborate gilt decoration. Condition is as new. The book is still in the original shrink wrap hence the reflections in the photos.
Their Finest Hour
$150 – First Edition, Franklin Library
Limited Edition of “The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century”. Fine Copy of Churchill’s book from the Franklin Library. Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper all edges gilt. The end sheets are moire fabric with a matching silk ribbon page marker.
La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale
$800
The Second World War in French. Paris: Libraire Plon, Paris, 1948–53. First French Editions. 6 volumes made into 12 – the complete set. Printed on good quality paper, no doubt produced to be bound.
Collected Works of Churchill (34 vols) & Essays (4 vols): 38 vols
$7,000 – Cohen AA1.1-34
38 vols total: The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 vols) + The Collected Essays (4 vols). FINE CONDITION
My African Journey
$150 – Not in Woods, Cohen A27.11 / ICS A12e
Pocket size edition of Churchill’s book, My African Journey. Bound in red leather blocked in decorative gilt with “Churchill” on front board. Heron Books, London, c.1965..
Savrola: Monaco
$500 – Langworth p49
A very elaborate production of Winston Churchill’s book. Deluxe illustrated numbered edition (#872) in French Issued as unbound sheets, 9″ x 11″. Loose sheets intended for binding.
Mr Broderick’s Army
$70 – Woods A6(b)
Collector’s Bindings – 1977 The Churchilliana Company. First Edition. Pristine Condition
Lord Randolph Churchill: Swedish
$200
Foreign Language Edition. Swedish translation published by Norstedts. Stockholm 1941. A very large book, 579 pages, card covers, intended to be rebound.
The End Of The Beginning
$400 – Woods A94a, Cohen A183.1.b
The Third Volume of Winston Churchill’s War Speeches in French & English. First English Edition together with the First French Edition. 1943. Housed together in a custom-made solander case…
While England Slept
$250
A modern reprint of Churchill’s book, While England Slept in purple leatherette never sold to the general public, and so has become a modern rarity. Fine copy, as new, in original shrink wrap, as issued without dust jacket…
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
$750 – Cohen A267.2. 4
The Educational Book Company Ltd, London: 1956-58. The Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of Churchill’s history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States.
Savrola: French Limited Edition
$1,200 – Limited Edition, No. 41
Savrola – French Limited Edition on Special Paper. The French production of Savrola was intended to be custom bound: this would be an ideal copy to have bound in a fine morocco binding.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples: Churchill & Roberts
$500 – Folio Society
Churchill’s 4 vol set in slipcase : A History of the English Speaking Peoples plus Andrew Roberts’ matching 1 vol A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900 in matching slipcase. As New Condition
The Great War: 26 parts by Winston Churchill
$750
The Great War, 26 books issued fortnightly. The Great War is actually an abridged and heavily illustrated version of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Published in 1933 by Newnes. Unbound, preserved in 2 large custom-made boxes with bright gilt titling to spine.
My African Journey: 1st Edition
$3,000 – Woods ICS:A12(aa), Cohen A27
First Edition. 1908. Hodder & Stoughton, London. Original bright red pictorial cloth with illustration showing hunter in safari gear (presumably Churchill). Housed in a custom-made matching red-maroon morocco book-like clamshell box with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. VG+
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
$400 – Not mentioned in Cohen and Langworth
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Special Publisher’s Leather Edition) by Winston Churchill. Barnes & Noble Leather Bindings. 4 Vols bound in full brown leather in matching brown cloth slipcase.
Thoughts and Adventures
$5,300 – Inscribed & Signed by Winston Churchill
Inscribed & Signed by the author, Winston Churchill. His book: Thoughts and Adventures, in original dust jacket. Printed in London in 1932 by Thorton Butterworth.
Great Contemporaries: Winston Churchill
$2,500 – Woods A43(a), Cohen A105.1.a, O’Brien F0212
First Edition, First State, in dust wrapper. Original cloth. The dust wrapper is unclipped, correct first. A fine collector quality copy…
The River War: First Single Volume Edition
$2,000 – First Single Volume Edition. Woods A2(b), Cohen A2.2
The River War by Winston Churchill was published in many different editions. Second edition, revised, first one volume edition. Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1902. 1000 copies printed on the 15th October, 1902. The text had been revised and a new chapter added describing the ultimate destruct of the Khalifa and the end of the war.
Pamphlets and Leaflets – 9 Speeches by Winston Churchill
$8,500 – Woods A7, D(b)25, A10, A13, A20(a), A21, A23 & A24. Cohen D1/1, A13, D8, D11, A24, A35.1, A36, A43 & A45.
Pamphlets and Leaflets – Liberal Publication Department. Nine volumes of Pamphlets an Leaflets containing 9 scarce Speeches by Churchill. Publisher’s original green cloth covers with black leather spine, gilt lettering on spine and front.
Thoughts & Adventures
$450 – Woods A39b, Cohen A95.3.b, Langworth p. 159
First Edition, First Printing of the original publisher’s Keystone Library issue of this book by Winston Churchill. With original dust jacket in remarkably good condition. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1933
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: W. Churchill
$22,500 – Signatures of Clementine & Winston Churchill. Cohen A267.1, Woods A138(a)
4 Vols. First editions, First impressions by Winston Churchill with numerous letters, Christmas cards & telegrams. Inscribed & signed by Churchill in 3 vols. 2 signed letters.