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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $1,500.00

This is a very good copy of the First Printing of the First English edition in the First State Binding (per Cohen) with the three-line cover title block and a half-title list of Churchill works that omits Volume I of THE WORLD CRISIS. Bound in rough pink cloth, this copy is unevenly faded but retains […]

MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition (Second Printing) -

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $500.00

This is a beautiful copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which was issued in the very month of publication and is identical to the first printing. Bound in rough pink cloth this copy retains most of its original vivid pink luster on the front and rear faces, with the notoriously fade-prone […]

MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition (Third Printing) -

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $500.00

This is a beautiful copy of the Third Printing of the First English edition, which was issued in the year of publication and is identical to the first printing. Bound in smooth pink cloth, this copy retains all of its original vivid pink luster on the front and rear faces, with the notoriously fade-prone spine […]

MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-Wartime Keystone Library Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1940 | $1,000.00

This is a virtually mint copy of the wartime Third Impression of the Keystone Library edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The Keystone Library was publisher Thornton Butterworth’s budget imprint; it reproduced First Edition quality books at affordable prices. Bound in striking purple cloth, this copy is almost shockingly pristine, as if just published, in […]

A ROVING COMMISSION

-Probable Pirated Second American Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill (With an Introduction by Dorothy Thompson)

1940 | $30.00

An oddity, probably a pirated printing of the wartime Second American edition, with the new Introduction by Dorothy Thompson. The book does not conform physically at all to this edition, it is smaller, narrower, with cheaper paper that has browned with age. There is no mention of the publisher Scribner anywhere and the publication page […]

A ROVING COMMISSION

-Second American Edition (Second Printing) in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill (With an Introduction by Dorothy Thompson)

1940 | $165.00

This is a very good Second Printing copy of the wartime Second American Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket that is very lightly rubbed along the spine but is otherwise bright and crisp with excellent color. The cloth is roughed and shelfworn. The contents are fine. Produced from the First American edition plates, with a […]

A ROVING COMMISSION: The Story of My Early Life

-Second American Edition (Third Printing) in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill (With an Introduction by Dorothy Thompson)

1941 | $200.00

This is a very good copy of the Third Printing of the wartime Second American Edition in an unclipped dust jacket that is in very good condition, just a bit faded along the spine. The book itself, binding, cloth and contents, are clean and bright; virtually mint, with endpapers that are toned, as per usual […]

A ROVING COMMISSION

-Second American Edition (Third Printing) in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill (With an Introduction by Dorothy Thompson)

1941 | $200.00

A virtually mint copy of the wartime Third Printing of the Second American Edition, in an unclipped dust jacket that is very faintly faded along the spine but is otherwise bright and crisp with excellent color. The book and contents are fine, save for a former owner name dated “March 1941” in ink and a […]

A ROVING COMMISION: The Story of My Early Life

-Third American Edition (Fourth Printing)-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1945 | $200.00

This is a very good copy of the Fourth Printing of the wartime Third American edition. The price-clipped dust jacket is in very good condition, just lightly scuffed. The contents are fine.

THE STORY OF MY EARLY LIFE: A ROVING COMMISSION

-Third American Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1949 | $50.00

A very good copy, without dust jacket of this postwar reprint. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown and a slight chip in the page edges of the front free endpaper and half-title. Else fine.

MY EARLY LIFE & THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES & GREAT CONTEMPORARIES & STEP BY STEP

-Odhams Press Editions (Four Volume Set) in Original Mailing Container-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1948 | $750.00

As-new, a four-volume set of Odhams Press reprints still boxed in their original mailing container. The books in this set are all Standard edition First Printings, in their original dust jackets. All appear to be unread and are virtually mint. Rare thus, to say the least. Odhams Press was a British mail order bookseller that, […]

MY EARLY LIFE

-First Odhams Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1949 | $85.00

A very good copy of the Standard binding, in dust jacket. The book and contents are fine. Odhams Press was England’s top mail order publisher. After the war, it regularly reprinted four basic Churchill titles (MY EARLY LIFE, THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES, GREAT CONTEMPORARIES and STEP BY STEP) in two different dust jacketed binding styles: Standard […]

MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | Register to View Price

The rarest of the rare: A First English edition in the original dust jacket. The very fragile jacket is intact and retains brilliant pink color on the front and rear faces. The spine color has faded out almost completely but the spine type has not; it remains vivid. There is horizontal loss approximately 2 1/2-inches […]

A ROVING COMMISSION: My Early Life

-Third Printing of the First American Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $550.00

This is a very good copy of the Third Printing of the First American edition in the rare dust jacket, which is price-clipped and spine-faded, as per usual, but most attractive overall, quite bright and fresh on the front and rear faces, and thoroughly intact across the spine, with just a few closed tears at […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition (Fifth Printing)-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1931 | $2,000.00

A very good copy of the Fifth Impression of the First English edition in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket, which replicates the original orange First Edition jacket but absent the orange, printed instead on off-white paper lettered in blue. The book itself, bound in smooth pink cloth is virtually mint, inside and out, uniquely unfaded, […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | Register to View Price

The rarest of the rare: A First English edition in the astonishing dust jacket, here in stellar condition, complete, intact and virtually unfaded across the front and rear faces, nominally faded across the spine. There are fractional losses along the lower jacket edges and down the rear spine fold, as well as a small 1-inch […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $1,750.00

This is a very good copy of the First Printing of the First English edition in the First State Binding (per Cohen) with the three-line cover title block and a half-title list of Churchill works that omits Volume I of THE WORLD CRISIS. Bound in rough pink cloth, this copy is in exceptionally fresh condition, […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-Signed First English Edition Presentation Copy Inscribed to Churchill’s Daughter, Diana-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | Register to View Price

Signed, dated and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Diana from Papa Oct. 25, 1930,” five days after publication. DIANA CHURCHILL (SANDYS) was Winston and Clementine Churchill’s eldest daughter, born July 11, 1909. She married twice, the second time on September 16, 1935 to the Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys, with whom she had three children. […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-First English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $1,500.00

This is a very good copy of the First Printing of the First English edition in the First State Binding (per Cohen) with the three-line cover title block and a half-title list of Churchill works that omits Volume I of THE WORLD CRISIS. Bound in rough pink cloth, this copy retains a good deal of […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-Rare First English “Times Book Club” Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1930 | $1,500.00

This is an extravagantly rare copy of the [London] Times Book Club edition, which came out simultaneously with the First English edition, bound from First Edition sheets. Incredibly, in his definitive bilbliography, bibliographer Ronad Cohen seems to have missed this edition, which is a great rarity unto itself. The book is bound in unornamented burgundy […]

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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission

-Signed: “To Winston from Winston”-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1937 | Register to View Price

This Second Printing of the Keystone Library edition (First Binding State) is signed and dated in ink by Winston Churchill on the second front free endpaper: ”To Winston from Winston May 3, 1937.” The marvelously inscrutable inscription is to WINSTON FREDERICK CHURCHILL GUEST, the son of Churchill’s first cousin and former private secretary Frederick “Freddie” […]