The Sinews of Peace: A Speech At Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946 by Churchill, Winston S - 1996

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Original blue gilt cloth with date on title page. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is very good if price-clipped, with a 1/2"" square chip to the top of the spine not affecting text, clean and bright and protected by a Brodart plastic jacket cover.

Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Near fine in very good chipped and rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover..

Houghton Miffin Company, 1949. Good Hardcover with dustjacket, Some wear to dustjacket edges first edition . First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Post-War Speeches, October, 1945 to the end of 1946. An excellent copy.

Houghton Mifflin, 1949. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin . Stated First US Published. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1948. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, only printing, of the first of Churchill's five postwar speech volumes. Here is a very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket. The dark orange cloth binding is clean, tight, and square with sharp corners and only light shelf wear to extremities. The contents are bright and clean with no previous ownership marks. We note only minor dust soiling to the top edges. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original publisher’s price on the lower front flap, and substantially complete, with only fractional loss at the spine head and upper flap fold corners. There is mild scuffing to the spine and soiling to the white rear panel. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. Having done so much to win the war, Churchill faced frustration of his postwar plans when his wartime government fell to Labour in the General Election of July 1945. He remained Leader of… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, only printing of the first volume of Churchill's postwar speeches. The book contains speeches from the end of the war through the end of 1946. The U.S. editions of Churchill's postwar speeches were produced in far fewer numbers than the British editions - in this case just 3,000 copies for the U.S. edition as opposed to 10,000 copies for the British edition. The attractive blue covers and dust jacket of this edition proved particularly susceptible to fading. Consequently, they are nearly always found in worn and flawed condition. Here is a near-fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, and tight with sharp corners and virtually no wear apart from minor wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are clean and bright with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. Differential toning to the pastedowns corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms… Read More

New York: Halcyon-Commonwealth Foundation, 1965. Second Edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the 1965 (the year of Churchill’s death) publication of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946. This edition of the speech contains a preface by Truman, and is quite attractive, string-bound in off-white card wraps with turn-in flaps, with red print and illustration on the front cover. This copy is in very good condition. The wraps binding is complete and firmly attached, the original binding string clean and intact. There is mild soiling to the top center of the front cover and trivial wear at the spine head. The contents are crisp, clean, and complete with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. At Fulton, Churchill coined the phrase that described the division between the Soviet Union's sphere of influence and the West. This speech incisively framed the Cold War that would dominate the second half of the Twentieth Century:… Read More

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1948. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is an exceptional copy of the British first edition, only printing, of the first of Churchill's five postwar speech volumes. Copies thus – near fine plus in a near fine plus dust jacket – have become elusive and are the starting point of filling a premium set. The dark orange cloth binding is clean, tight, and square with sharp corners and only a hint of shelf wear, confined to extremities. The contents are bright and clean with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. We note only light dust soiling to the top edges. The lower front flap of the dust jacket is neatly price-clipped, but apart from this, the dust jacket is not only bright and crisp but entirely complete, with no further loss. Shelf presentation is excellent, with just a few tiny, white scuffs. Even the white rear face remains bright with only slight overall soiling. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.… Read More