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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | $3,500.00

This First English edition set exquisitely rebound by Bayntun of Bath (for the late-Kroch and Brentano’s bookstore of Chicago) in full navy-blue morocco leather, has Churchill’s signature in gilt across each face. The endpapers are marbled, all edges are gilded, the spines elaborately gilt-tooled, lettered and dated in six compartments with raised bands. The contents […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding by "Zaensdorf"-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | $3,500.00

This First English edition set is a signed binding by the legendary London-based Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (author of THE ART OF BOOKBINDING), who also bound books for Winston Churchill. The set is rebound in full cognac-colored oasis leather. The endpapers are marbled and elaborately gilt tooled, all edges are gilded, the spines are gilt-lettered in […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Set Without Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

$150.00

A very good First English edition set, without dust jackets. Volume II is the 1963 Third Printing. The books are all crisply bound, clean, bright, and virtually unfaded on the spines. Volumes I-III are all variably foxed on the prelims and fore-edges; Volume IV is unfoxed. Volumes II and III have the same tiny vintage […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | $950.00

This is a very good First English edition set, in unclipped dust jackets that are exceptionally fresh, bright and unfaded. Volume I dust jacket has an infinitesimal chip at the center of the front face and some light edgewear to the spine head only. The contents of all volumes are fine, with the faintest scattered […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | $350.00

A very good First English edition set, in unclipped dust jackets that are intact but darkened with age. There is faint edge-chipping to the spine heads of each, but more significant loss wrapping around to the front face of Volume IV. The books are crisp and fresh, with faded topstains, else fine.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Later English Edition Set: The Property of Winston Churchill's Nephew, John Spencer Churchill-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | $500.00

This very good later English edition set, in dust jackets, was the property of Winston Churchill’s nephew, John Churchill, whose name is hand-written in ink on the front free endpaper of Volume I: “John Spencer Churchill.” JOHN SPENCER CHURCHILL (1909-1992) was the son of Winston Churchill’s brother, Jack. A noted painter and sculptor, he also […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Presentation Set Signed in All Four Volumes-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | Register to View Price

This mixed First English edition presentation set, in dust jackets, is signed in each volume: “Winston S. Churchill” and hand-dated “1959” in ink. The set was presented by Churchill to his close friend and associate Frank Clarke, who famously hosted Winston and Clementine Churchill at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Abridged One-Volume Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill (Abridged by Henry Steele Commager)

1994 | $40.00

The standard single-volume abridged edition in a recent reissue, in dust jacket.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Easton Press Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1992 | $350.00

A mint set of this characteristically elaborate Easton Press reprint edition photo-reproduced from the Chartwell Illustrated Edition of the 1950s, bound in full-blue leather, printed on archival paper with gilded fore-edges, moire satin endpapers, and a silk ribbon page marker.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-English Abridged Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill [Abridgment by Christopher Lee}

1998 | $50.00

This contemporary abridgment reduces Churchill’s text by 40%, largely by excising his writing about the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A very good copy, in dust jacket, virtually mint.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-The Folio Society Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill (Introduction by Roy Jenkins)

2003 | $250.00

This is the First Folio Society edition in very good condition. The four slipcased volumes were handsomely produced and very well illustrated, in typical Folio Society style. The slipcase here is just a bit rubbed and beginning to separate at the head, but is intact. The books are mint and appear unopened. A lovely way […]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Book-of-the-Month Club Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

$185.00

This is a very handsome Book-of-the-Month-Club set, in dust jackets. Virtually mint in every respect.

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Canadian Book-of-the-Month Club Set in Publisher's Rare Slipcase-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | Register to View Price

This is a very good example of the Canadian Book-of-the-Month Club edition in unclipped dust jackets, as issued in a red linen slipcase with photo frontis. The books and dust jackets are in uniformly very good condition, as is the slipcase. Rare thus.

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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-Illustrated Edition (Complete in 112 Parts/7 Volumes)-

By: Winston S. Churchill & Various Others [Edited by Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and A.J.P. Taylor]

1968 | $150.00

Initially published in 112 weekly magazine parts, this collection is not entirely the work of Winston Churchill. The text consists of excerpts from Churchill’s original four volume opus, with additional annotation notes, treatises and sidebars contributed by other authors. The pages are profusely illustrated in color and monochrome. Once all the parts were issued, the […]

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-Signed First English Edition Presentation Set Inscribed to Churchill’s Private Secretary-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | Register to View Price

This First English edition Presentation set, in dust jackets, is signed and inscribed on the title page of Volume One for Churchill’s personal secretary: “To Gillian Maturin from Winston S. Churchill.” GILLIAN MATURIN (1931-1985) was one of Churchill’s postwar secretaries, a New Zealander who commenced working for him just after his retirement as Prime MInister […]

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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

-First English Edition Presentation Set to G.M. Trevelyan-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1956-1958 | Register to View Price

This First English edition set, in unclipped dust jackets, belonged to the noted historian and Oxford academic G.M. Trevelyan. It contains pre-printed, holograph-styled presentation notes from Winston Churchill tipped onto the front free endpapers of the first three volumes and a typed signed presentation note dated “6 December, 1956” on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper […]