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Stoke-on-Trent: Copeland Spode, 1941. While “Toby Jug” likenesses of Winston Churchill are ubiquitous, this particular example is a far less common example than typically seen. Large, this Toby measures 8.5 inches (21.6 cm) tall and 5 x 4.25 inches (12.7 x 10.8 cm) at the base. This particular Toby design “was produced… to commemorate the Atlantic Charter.” There were both colored and plain white versions. Colored versions were made for export “mainly to the U.S. and Canada” while “a plain white version was made for distribution in the UK”. (Hall, p.164) The latter is offered here. Churchill’s image would hardly have required color embellishment in Great Britain in 1941. By 1941, Churchill's image and persona had already become iconic. Both to commemorate the Atlantic Charter, and of course to capitalize upon Churchill's unmistakable image, Copeland Spode produced wartime images of Churchill. Lest there be any doubt about the subject, Churchill’s unmistakable countenance – doughty and… Read More

London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1936. First edition. Periodical. This October, 1936 issue of The Strand Magazine (Vol. XCI, No. 550) contains the first published appearance of Winston Churchill’s portrait of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). Here Churchill paints a picture of the life and career of one of the most powerful politicians of the Victorian era as a “tale which constituted all the elements of a Greek tragedy.” Parnell had a long and successful career in Irish politics; at his height, Parnell as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party was nearing an agreement on Irish Home Rule with Prime Minister Gladstone. However, Parnell was brought down by the scandal catalyzed by the revelation of a longstanding affair with a married woman, Katherine O’Shea. Churchill is sympathetic, writing, “as he had previously sacrificed all for Ireland, so, when the moment of choice came, he sacrificed all, even Ireland, for love.” In 1936 a politician driven out of office would have been… Read More

London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1911. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. Contained in this bound volume is the first edition, only printing of this scarce Churchill speech leaflet. In 1910 Winston Churchill was a young lion of the Liberal Party, vexing the British establishment and helping Lloyd George lay the foundations of the modern welfare state. Here is the original 1910 leaflet publishing Churchill's November 14 letter stating vehement opposition to the veto power of the House of Lords. This leaflet captures the young radical Churchill in full flower. "Was ever inequality more scandalous? Was ever injustice more glaring? All classes are to have votes; but only Tory votes are to count. WE CAN SUBMIT NO LONGER TO THIS USAGE. THIS IS OUR LAND AS MUCH AS IT IS THEIRS." The leaflet is two pages, published by the Liberal Publications Department as Leaflet No. 2358 on November 18, 1910. It is bound in this volume containing Liberal Party speeches and pamphlets for the year 1910.… Read More

Rochester, New York: University of Rochester, 1941. First edition. Paperback. This scarce pamphlet is the first published appearance of Winston S. Churchill's speech of 16 June 1941, early in Churchill’s Second World War premiership and nearly half a year before the United States formally entered the war. The speech was broadcast from 10 Downing Street on the occasion of Churchill receiving an Honorary Degree of Laws from the New York State's University of Rochester. Churchill had assumed the Premiership just a year earlier on 10 May 1940. By 16 June 1941, Churchill had led his nation for a frightful, solitary year since the fall of France. Britain would continue to stand alone against Hitler's Germany until the United States formally entered the Second World War after the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Courting American empathy and support was of critical importance. In particular, severe merchant shipping losses to German U-Boats in April and May of 1941 were a spur "to press… Read More

London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1911. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. Contained in this bound volume is the first edition, only printing of this scarce Churchill speech leaflet. In 1910 Winston Churchill was a young lion of the Liberal Party, vexing the British establishment and helping Lloyd George lay the foundations of the modern welfare state. Here is the original 1910 leaflet publishing Churchill's November 14 letter stating vehement opposition to the veto power of the House of Lords. This leaflet captures the young radical Churchill in full flower. "Was ever inequality more scandalous? Was ever injustice more glaring? All classes are to have votes; but only Tory votes are to count. WE CAN SUBMIT NO LONGER TO THIS USAGE. THIS IS OUR LAND AS MUCH AS IT IS THEIRS." The leaflet is two pages, published by the Liberal Publications Department as Leaflet No. 2358 on November 18, 1910. It is bound in this volume containing Liberal Party speeches and pamphlets for the year 1910.… Read More

London : British Ministry of Information, War Office, and Ministry of Home Security, 1940. First edition. Leaflet. If invasion comes, everyone - young or old, men and women - will be eager to play their part worthily." This pair of original leaflets issued by the British Government early during the Second World War testify to the very real peril faced by Britain during the first year of Winston S. Churchill’s wartime premiership. The war’s outcome is now long-settled history, making it perhaps difficult to viscerally understand the credible, imminent threat of Nazi invasion of England at the time. These leaflets make the point. They are titled If the INVADER Comes and Beating the INVADER, issued respectively in June 1940, the month after Churchill became premier, and May 1941, one year into his premiership. Both documents are printed on both sides of a thin sheet of newsprint-quality paper, each measuring approximately 11 inches by 8.25 inches (27.9 x 21 cm). Condition of both documents is very… Read More

London: The Daily Chronicle, 1912. Paperback. This rare pamphlet publication represents itself as "A pocket book for speakers and electors, containing a brief exposition of the arguments for Home Rule, and answers to the objections raised." This third ("Revised and Enlarged") edition of 1912 is the first to contain an important 4-page introduction by Winston Churchill, lending his name, and influence to the cause. At the time of publication, Churchill served in the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty. His four-page introduction is decisively favorable to the cause: "The facts and arguments collected in this brief epitome deserve the attention of fair-minded and patriotic Englishmen." Churchill frames the arguments in the pamphlet thus: "if they are favorable, what a sorry part will a man have played who out of carelessness, prejudice, or partisanship is guilty of obstructing a settlement earnestly desired by the Irish people, and politic and necessary in itself!" Churchill's family had… Read More

London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1931. First edition. Periodical. This September, 1931 issue of The Strand Magazine (Vol. LXXXI, No. 484) contains the first appearance of Winston Churchill’s article “Some Election Memories”, published prior to its inclusion in Thoughts and Adventures. In this article Churchill begins by asserting his well-earned authority on English elections. “In fact”, he writes, “I have devoted one day in thirty of my whole adult life to these strange experiences.” What follows is at once a unique lens through which Churchill describes Britain’s evolution in the first decades of the 20th century (“When I first began this had to be done in a two-horse landau, at about seven miles an hour.”) and a personal account of his early political career and its hard-fought victories and defeats. At the time of this article’s publication in 1931 Churchill was in the midst of political isolation, his Conservative Party out of power and himself increasingly out of favor within his own… Read More

Paris: Etienne Ganeau, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Having joined the East India Company as a chaplain, Ovington was assigned to the Company's vessel Benjamin for a voyage to the East Indies in 1689. Ovington stopped briefly in Bombay and then settled at Surat for two and a half years. His narrative describes Bombay as a sink of debauchery filled with whores and drunkards. Of Surat Ovington commented at length of the Mughal influence, on religious and cultural characteristics of the Hindus and Parsees, and the nature of the fakeer or Mohammedan religious mendicant. In passing Ovington described and defended the drinking of tea for which he was later attacked by Alexander Hamilton. Of the greatest interest, however, is Ovington's outline of the organization and operation of the English factory at Surat. Of the early narratives, Ovington's possesses greater interest and far wittier prose". (Riddick) These two volumes, respectively 323 pp and 318 pp, comprise the first French translation from the… Read More