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MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-1938 | $3,500.00

This is a very good First English edition set, in the very rare dust jackets, which are generally in exceptional condition, a trifle edge-chipped, else fine. Volume I jacket is neatly price-clipped, but correct, the others are unclipped. Volume II jacket has a few faint ink marks and creases on the spine, and a modest […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times – VOLUME II

-First English Edition Advance Proof Copy in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1934 | $1,500.00

This is a Publisher’s Advance Proof for Volume II of the First English edition. It is a softcover wrapped in a correct Volume II dust jacket, which has rectangular loss across the upper right front face, else fine. The volume itself is in virtually mint condition. It matches the final published edition, including all the […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Set in Correct First-State Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | $3,500.00

This is a very good First American edition set, all volumes in their rare, correct FIRST-STATE, unclipped dust jackets, as issued, all unclipped, in the original printed slipcases.[/p]Volumes I and II are in white dust jackets printed green and are slipcased as a set, as are Volumes III and IV. Volume V is in its […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Set in Uniform Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | $1,500.00

This is a very good First American edition set wrapped in the final-state, uniform blue and gold dust jackets The jackets here are all unclipped and exhibit moderate shelf wear with some darkening to the spines. Due to the jackets’ protection, the cloth and gilt lettering on all volumes is mint and the contents are […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Set without Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-1938 | $600.00

This is a First American edition set in very good condition, without dust jackets. The cloth of Volumes I and II is lightly damp-stained, the gilt spine type on Volumes I, II and V has faded. The contents are fine. With apologies for the complicated lineage: Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First American Edition Presentation Set in Uniform Dust Jackets and Rare Slipcase-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | $4,500.00

This is a virtually mint First American edition set wrapped in the final-state, uniform blue and gold dust jackets and preserved in the very rarely seen publisher’s green card slipcase, which does show its age. (With apologies for the complicated lineage:) Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I divided into two books (designated […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-English "Presentation" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1939 | $675.00

A good set, in worn dust jackets, of the so-called “Limited Presentation Edition” that Harrap issued in December 1939, produced from remaining sheets of the most recent printings for each volume, save for Volume I, which was reprinted expressly for this edition. Volume II is a second printing from 1934. Volumes III and IV are […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-Unabridged Two-Volume English Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1966 | $500.00

This two-volume reprint edition, first published in 1947, was photo-lithographed from the original first English edition, compressed and printed on thinner paper, but left unabridged. It is a lovely set, here in unclipped dust jackets that are virtually mint, just darkened a bit on the spines, else fine. The contents are fine. A beautiful way […]

MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-First Canadian Edition Set in Dust Jackets-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-1938 | $4,500.00

This is a very good set of of the rare First Canadian edition, in the even rarer dust jackets, which are generally in excellent condition, edge-chipped and darkened along the spines, else fine. The Canadian edition was largely bound from English edition sheets but in purple cloth. The dust jackets were printed identically to the […]

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MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times

-Deluxe Signed Limited Leatherbound First Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933-38 | Register to View Price

One of the jewels of the Churchill canon, this Deluxe Edition of MARLBOROUGH was issued in a limitation of 155 signed leatherbound sets; the only signed leatherbound Churchill first edition ever produced. Stunningly bound in full dark-orange Niger by Leighton Straker, the books are each gilt-stamped on the upper board with the Marlborough crest, gilt-lettered […]