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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Winston Churchill. Our catalogue of books, manuscripts, ephemera, and personal items is formed around two of the greatest private Churchill collections: that of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine, and Ronald I. Cohen, author of the three-volume Bibliography of the Writings of Winston Churchill.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed, from Jack Churchill, on Winston Churchill's cavalry charge at Omdurman.1898]
Winston Churchill's brother Jack writes to their mother with details of Winston's participation in the cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman, often cited as the last great cavalry charge in British military history. The charge became part of the legend of the young Churchill, but Jack's early report presents it as a military blunder, wasting...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Lady Randolph Spencer, ed. The Anglo-Saxon Review.London : 1899-1901
First edition of Volumes Two to Ten, second edition of Volume One, a complete set of this elaborate historical and cultural journal, one of the most opulent, expensive (a guinea a volume), and frequently satirized periodicals of its time. The cover designs followed those of various ornate Renaissance bindings, the paper quality is high, and the...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War.London : 1899
First edition of Churchill's second book, based on his own role as a war reporter in the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan.
"Arguably the most aesthetically beautiful of original trade editions of Churchill's books, The River War is a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and the campaign for its reconquest: arresting,...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed twice, admonishing his manager for the poor returns of his American tour.1900
A terse unpublished letter to James Burton Pond, the manager of Churchill's first American lecture tour, written during the final days and reflecting the tensions between Pond and his young client; signed "WSC" at end and again under the recipient's address.
Churchill was first elected to Parliament on 2 October 1900, but postponed entry...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed, soliciting Lord Salisbury for assistance with his biography of Lord Randolph.1902
Winston Churchill writes to former prime minister Lord Salisbury, asking for letters relating to his father Lord Randolph, who served in Salisbury's Cabinet. Churchill was gathering material for his biography - Salisbury supplied correspondence which probably represented the most important source apart from the Churchill family...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed, to Eliot Crawshay-Williams following his election defeat.1906
Churchill writes as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies to commiserate with a colleague for his defeat in the January 1906 general election.
The recipient (1879-1962) had stood as a candidate for Churchill's Liberal party in Chorley. The free-trade Liberals achieved a landslide victory in the general election, as the Conservative...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Liberalism and the Social Problem.London : 1909
First edition, first impression, "presentation copy" stamp on title page, presumably sent to the editor of the Economist Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873-1953), with his pencilled ownership signature to the front free endpaper and title page.
The book collects the speeches by the young Churchill during his Liberal phase, addressing such...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed Address, To the Electors of Dundee,Dundee : 1909 & 1910
First editions of these two addresses by Churchill to his Dundee constituents during the 1910 elections, centred on the momentous constitutional battle between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. These ephemeral pieces are very rare.
In November 1909, the Lords rejected the "People's Budget" proposed by Liberal Prime Minister...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (contrib.). The Man's Case Against Giving a Million Votes to Women.London : 1910
First edition of this rare collection of parliamentary speeches arguing against the proposed bill in 1910 to extend Parliamentary suffrage to female property owners, which includes Winston Churchill's speech, "The Undemocratic Nature of the Bill to Give a Million Votes to Women" (pp. 77-85), unrecorded in Cohen's bibliography of...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Letter signed as departing President of the Board of Trade.1910
Winston Churchill bids farewell to his staff as he leaves his role as President of the Board of Trade, in an official letter presumably prominently displayed within the department.
The new prime minister, Asquith, appointed Churchill President of the Board of Trade in April 1908. This brought the 33-year-old Churchill into Cabinet, the...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. - Trevelyan, George Macaulay. Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic.London : 1910
Presentation copy from Winston Churchill, inscribed by him on the initial blank "To Geordie from Winston S. Churchill on his marriage. 11th Ap. 1912".
The recipient was George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, then Marquess of Stafford, later 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963). He married Lady Eileen Butler, daughter of the Earl and...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Souvenir of the Battle of Stepney.London : [1911?]
A very rare survival: a printed commemorative napkin recording the Siege of Sidney Street, including a picture of Churchill in the middle of the action. The siege was one of the defining events of Churchill's period as Home Secretary. Churchill's appearance at the scene caught the public imagination, but he was criticized for interfering and...Learn More![[Drop-head title:] The Fighting Line.](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2fd3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net%2fmedia%2fcatalog%2fproduct%2fcache%2feddd32ef720e909fecec8d69051e6d0d%2f1%2f2%2f127608.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)
CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Fighting Line.London : 1916
First edition, only printing, of a Churchill rarity - his appeal to Parliament, having returned from the trenches, to stop squandering British men in fruitless attacks, reflecting his deeply felt concerns over the prosecution of the war.
After receiving much criticism for his involvement in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Churchill...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed, to Lord Birkenhead opposing the revision of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.1924
A very lengthy and unpublished letter from Churchill to his close ally, planning united action to prevent changes to the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty that they together negotiated and signed.
Frederick Edwin "F.E." Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), was one of Churchill's closest political friends. He was a member of the House of Lords,...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (ed.). The British Gazette. Numbers 1-8.London : 1926
First editions of the complete run of the British Gazette, edited by Winston Churchill to present the government's case during the 1926 General Strike, published from 5 to 13 May 1926. Although no features or articles are signed by Churchill, at least one article in each issue can confidently be ascribed to him.
"During the evening of 2nd...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life: A Roving Commission.London : 1930
First edition, first impression, in a presentable example of the rare dust jacket, retaining much of its vibrant colour.
My Early Life is Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography. Among his most widely-read works, it provides a highly entertaining account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military training at Sandhurst,...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Signed corrected draft typescript of an article on disarmament.1931
A typescript signed and extensively annotated by Churchill with corrections and interpolations, for a newspaper article on European foreign affairs, disarmament, and the League of Nations. The article, offering an astute commentary on realpolitik, is not in Cohen and has never been republished.
The piece was one of a number on European...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Marlborough.London : 1933-38
First edition, signed limited issue, number 55 of 155 copies signed by the author. This is the only signed limited issue of any of Churchill's writings; few sets retain the original slipcases, fewer still in such nice condition.
Churchill's ancestor the 1st Duke of Marlborough led allied forces to victory against Louis XIV. Churchill worked...Learn More
CHURCHILL, Winston S. - PAGET, John. The New "Examen".London : 1934
First edition with Churchill's introduction, signed limited issue, number 50 of an unstated number of copies (generally cited as only 50) signed by Churchill.
In 1861, the barrister John Paget published The New "Examen" or an inquiry into the evidence relating to certain passages in Lord Macaulay's History. In it, he defended the Duke of...Learn More![[The Great War, in Swedish.] Det Stora Kriget.](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2fd3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net%2fmedia%2fcatalog%2fproduct%2fcache%2feddd32ef720e909fecec8d69051e6d0d%2f1%2f7%2f171000.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)
CHURCHILL, Winston S. [The Great War, in Swedish.] Det Stora Kriget.Stockholm : 1936
First edition in Swedish, first printing, inscribed by Churchill for his Swedish publisher on the initial binder's blank of Volume I and Volume II: "Inscribed for B. Sterner by Winston S. Churchill March 1936".
Churchill's Swedish publishers normally sent him two specially bound copies of each of his titles that they published. It was his...Learn More
