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THE WAR SPEECHES: “Definitive Edition”

-First English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1951-1952 | $1,500.00

This is a very good First English edition set in dust jackets that are unclipped and intact but age-darkened, particularly along the spines. The spine of Volume III is also creased at the tail. The books are in handsome condition, the bindings crisp and tight, the contents fine and unfoxed. Churchill favored greatly the beautiful […]

THE WAR SPEECHES OF RT. HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: “DEFINITIVE EDITION”

-First American Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1953 | $1,500.00

This is a very good example, in unclipped dust jackets, of the far rarer American issue of the “Definitive Edition.” Only 500 copies were produced, using sheets from the British print run. The dust jackets here are bright and intact, with short tears and edge chipping to the front faces, and fractional losses at the […]

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THE WAR SPEECHES: “Definitive Edition”

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

By: Winston S. Churchill

1951-1952 | Register to View Price

This First English edition Presentation set, in dust jackets, is signed, inscribed and dated on the front free endpaper of Volume One for Churchill’s personal secretary: “To Jill Maturin from Winston S. Churchill, Christmas 1957,” with the date inked out by Churchill and corrected in his own hand. GILLIAN MATURIN (1931-1985) was one of Churchill’s […]

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THE WAR SPEECHES

-Easton Press Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

2001 | $650.00

This characteristically elaborate Easton Press reprint of “The Definitive Edition” of Churchill’s War Speeches first published in 1952 is bound in full green leather, printed on archival paper with gilded fore-edges, moire satin endpapers, and a silk ribbon page marker. A virtually mint set.