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London: Issued by The National Savings Committee, Crown Copyright Reserved, and printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Chromoworks, Ltd., 1944. Poster. This is a striking original Second World War propaganda poster in support of the 1944 “Salute the Soldier” fundraising campaign. The poster, arrestingly printed in red, black, and blue, measures 19.25 x 14.75 inches (48.9 x 37.5 cm). At the upper right it features a prominent black and white image of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s face, wearing his iconic wartime countenance of stern resolution. To his left, prominently billed as “FROM THE | PRIME MINISTER” is a letter on Churchill’s “10 Downing St. | Whitehall" stationery reading as follows: “I wish the “Salute the Soldier” campaign every success. It provides an opportunity for the whole nation to demonstrate the pride and affection we all feel for the men in the British Armies. During this year they will be engaged in nearly every theatre of war throughout the world… Read More

London: Punch, 1912. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "'A SEA-CHANGE” appeared thus on p.91 of the 24 July 1912 issue of Punch. The artist is Bernard Partridge. The cartoon is subtitled "('INTO SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE')". The lengthy caption reads "First Lord of the Admiralty (at Earl's Court). 'WELL, THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE YOUR TIME; BUT OUR LOWER DECK'S AS GOOD AS EVER' Shade of Sir Richard Grenville (of the 'Revenge') 'YES; AND I HEAR THEY'RE UNDERPAID AS WELL AS EVER.' First Lord. 'AH! THAT'S ANOTHER CHANGE WE HOPE TO MAKE.'" The issue of increased pay for seamen is notionally discussed with Sir Richard Grenville, captain of the Revenge, who died in the Battle of… Read More

London: Punch, 1953. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL: That would be carrying goodwill too far." appeared thus on p.584 of the 11 November 1953 issue of Punch. The artist is Michael Cummings (1919-1997), who worked for Punch for more than 30 years. After being Leader of the Opposition since July 1945, Churchill finally returned to the premiership in October 1951 at nearly 77 years old. And as his premiership progressed and his infirmities became manifest, pressure mounted for him to relinquish his leadership. When this cartoon was published, Churchill, just weeks away from his 79th birthday, declared in the House that he thought a General Election was… Read More

London: Punch, 1926. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "THE SOFT-WORD PUZZLE." appeared thus on p.311 of the 24 March 1926 issue of Punch. The artist is Leonard Raven-Hill. The image is captioned "Mr. Baldwin. 'CAN ANYBODY THINK OF ANOTHER WORD FOR "SUBSIDY"?" Churchill was then in the second year of his tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the cartoon, attempting to address coalminers' grievances over wages and mine conditions in some way other than a coal subsidy, the Government searches a library for books of synonyms. Baldwin and Churchill ponder the right "soft-words," while Neville (on ladder) searches the references and F. E. Smith puffs a cigar. Philip… Read More

Brookline, Massachusetts: Thomas B. Hitchcock, 1937. Wraps. This remarkable little item is a bookseller’s catalogue titled “SOME FIRST EDITIONS OF ROBERT FROST AND OTHER MATERIAL FOR FROST COLLECTORS”. What renders this catalogue noteworthy is the date – 1937. This was more than a quarter of a century before Frost died, in the year he was to win the third of his eventual four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, only half way through the literary career that began with the 1913 publication of A Boy’s Will, and well before he had become “the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century”. The wire-stitched catalogue of bookseller “Thomas B. Hitchcock” of “Brookline, Mass.” measures 5.125 x 8.125 inches (13 x 20.6 cm) bound in and printed on heavy cream stock consisting of 16 pages (including the wraps). The contents offer 65 numbered items, each individually priced, with a list of the American editions of Frost’s works on the rear cover spanning A Boy’s Will (1915) to A Further… Read More

London: Punch, 1928. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "ST. WINSTON AND THE BRITISH LION." appeared thus on p.435 of the 18 April 1928 issue of Punch. The artist is Bernard Partridge. The cartoon is captioned "MR. PUNCH PRESENTS THE ABOVE CARTOON IN CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ALBRECHT DURER." In the cartoon, as the British Lion rests watchfully at Churchill's feet, Churchill - then Chancellor of the Exchequer - works diligently on the budget. Of note are the knives and scissors and the hour glass showing time running out. Albrecht Durer (1471-1548), like Churchill a Renaissance man, was a German printer and printmaker, known to da Vinci and Raphael. When… Read More

London: Punch, 1910. This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon titled "Students on the Make." appeared thus on p.309 of the 2 November 1910 issue of Punch. The artist is Leonard Raven-Hill. The caption reads: "Mr. F. E. Smith. 'Master of epigram - like me!' Mr. Winston Churchill. 'Wrote a novel in his youth - like me!' Together. 'Traveled in the east - like us. How does it end?' [Mr. W. F. Monypenny's official Life of Disraeli has just been published.]" Frederick Edwin "F.E." Smith (1872-1930), First Earl of Birkenhead, was a Conservative Member of Parliament, gifted orator, lawyer, and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Until his early death at the age of 58, he was the close personal… Read More

London: Beacon Books (Odhams Press Ltd.), 1957. Paperback. This is the second paperback edition of Churchill's third published book and only novel (the first paperback edition being published 49 years earlier in 1908). Condition is very good for a paperback of this vintage. The binding is square and tight. The illustrated covers are bright and clean, showing only light wear at the hinges and extremities. We note no vertical creasing to the spine, indicating that this copy is unread. The contents are inevitably age-toned, but otherwise fine with no spotting or previous ownership marks. When Savrola was first published in February 1900, a very young Churchill was exuberant. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. His “Tale of the Revolution in Laurania” is a melodramatic tale of political intrigue in a fictional Mediterranean state. He later made deprecating comments about his novel and it is perhaps instructive… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early… Read More

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1900. Colonial issue of the first edition, first printing. Hardcover. This well-worn survivor is a rare prize – the first edition, first printing, Colonial issue of Winston Churchill’s only novel, far rarer than its U.S. or British first edition counterparts. Only 1,670 Colonial editions were issued in this illustrated hardcover binding - and this small number includes the second and third printings. The survival rate was poor given the tropical climates in much of the colonies. Those few examples that do survive are often quite worn and re-backed or re-bound. This is an original, unrestored copy, sound and complete though in poor condition, clearly having endured customary depredations of age and use. First printing is confirmed by the absence of the words "NEW IMPRESSION" on the title page. The binding is square and tight, though quite considerably worn, the cloth frayed along the hinges and extremities, the strikingly illustrated front cover scuffed, the blank rear… Read More

Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1973. Hardcover. This is an elusive modern reprint of Churchill's third book and only novel. This 1973 edition was published by Cedric Chivers of Portway and Bath and is quite scarce. The striking dust jacket bears a color illustration from the story. The binding is dark red cloth stamped in gilt. Here is a respectable but imperfect jacketed ex-library copy, both volume and dust jacket in very good minus condition. The red cloth binding remains square, clean, and tight with sharp corners and bright spine gilt. We note only minor wrinkling to the spine ends and a small lower front cover blemish. The contents are substantially clean, a “WITHDRAWN” ink stamp on the front pastedown and some scarring on the front free endpaper recto, likely from some removed ex-library material tipped in. Spotting is substantially confined to the page edges. The illustrated dust jacket remains bright, clean, and unclipped with minor wear and only trivial loss to a few points along the top edge. The… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Sevenpenny Library edition. Hardcover. This is the first state of the 1915 Hodder & Stoughton “Sevenpenny Library Edition” of Churchill's third book and only novel, extremely scarce thus in the strikingly illustrated dust jacket. This is an aesthetically pleasing little book measuring 6.625 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide (17 x 11.5 cm), bound in a decorated bright red embossed cloth, and with a frontispiece illustration. Worn and soiled copies are not uncommon, but since the edition was small, fragile, and printed on cheap paper, collector-worthy copies have become scarce. Scarcer still is the illustrated dust jacket, the front panel of which features a four-color reproduction of the frontispiece on a red background; in recent decades, we have seen only a tiny handful of copies ever offered on the world market and infer that precious few survive. In 1998, Richard Langworth (A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill) wrote: "Presence of the… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is the British first edition of Churchill's third published book and only novel in a magnificent fine binding commissioned by one of the world’s oldest bookshops. The elegant, red, Morocco goatskin binding features a hubbed spine with blind-ruled compartments, gilt-decorated bands, and gilt lion rampant in each unprinted compartment. The covers feature gilt rule borders, the front cover stamped with Churchill’s facsimile signature in gilt. The cover edges are gilt tooled and the spine ends gilt hatched. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, red and white silk head and tail bands, and striking marbled endpapers framed by generous gilt ruled and tooled turn-ins. This compellingly handsome example of the fine binder’s craft is a reminder to collectors that not all fine bindings are created equal.  Gilt print on the lower front pastedown turn-in attributes this binding to “HENRY SOTHERAN, LTD.” Founded… Read More

1944. Photograph. This signed Second World War image captures President Franklin D. Roosevelt at approximately 4:15 PM on 26 July 1944 aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore at Honolulu, Hawaii. With a gun turret clearly visible in the upper background, FDR is seated in a chair on the deck, with Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur seated to FDR’s left and right. Standing behind FDR is a coterie of his senior military, medical, and civilian advisors. FDR signed this photograph horizontally at the top right “Franklin D. Roosevelt”. There are five additional signatures, each oriented vertically and above the signer’s image. Immediately to the left of FDR’s signature are the signatures of the following: White House Counsel and presidential speechwriter Samuel Rosenman as “Samuel I. Rosenman”; Senior Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William D. Leahy as “William D. Leahy”; FDR’s senior military aide General Edwin M. Watson as “Pa Watson”; White House naval aide… Read More

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1951. British first edition, second printing. Hardcover. This copy of the British first edition, second printing, of the fourth volume of Winston S. Churchills war memoirs is inscribed and dated by Churchill. The inscription, inked in blue in three lines on the half-title, reads Inscribed by | Winston S. Churchill | 1953. An autograph signed letter from a previous owner dated 12th August 1978 laid into the volume states: To whom it may concern. This hardback book the second world war the Second World War the Hinge of Fate was signed by Sir Winston Churchill at a luncheon in London in 1953 and kept by me as a prized possession with my other war time books. This second printing of October 1951 (incorrectly noted as Second Edition on the title page verso) followed the first printing of July 1951. Of note, it was published the very same month Churchill returned to 10 Downing Street to begin his second and final premiership after the return of his Conservative Party to… Read More

Cairo: U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1943. Photograph. This is an original Second World War U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the Cairo Conference on 25 November 1943. The gelatin silver print measures 10 x 8.25 inches (25.4 x 21 cm). Condition is very good plus, the paper complete and the image clean, with no appreciable fading, toning, or scuffing, and only minor wear confined to the blank white margins. The image's lower left features the circular emblem of “SIGNAL CORPS U.S. Army” embedded in the negative. The verso features a four-line ink stamp at the lower left reading “U. S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOS | ANTHONY F. WIN | 2439 NORTH FRANCISCO AVE | CHICAGO 47, ILLINOIS”. Pencil notation in two lines reads "Cairo, Egypt. | Nov. 25th '43". The image is protected within a clear, archival sleeve. The First Cairo Conference – codenamed “Sextant” – convened the leaders… Read More

Normandy, France: U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1944. Photograph. This is an original Second World War Official U.S. Navy photograph of Allied landings on the beaches at Normandy in France on 6 June 1944. This image, with an armada of ships filing the view to the horizon, conveys a staggering sense of the unprecedented marshalling of personnel and material. Particularly striking are the silver, oval-shaped balloons floating above many of the ships, stretching into the distance. These balloons, known as barrage balloons, provided critical protection to the ships and soldiers below them from attacks by enemy aircraft. The gelatin silver print measures 10.25 x 8 inches (26 x 20.3 cm). Condition is very good plus, the paper complete and the image clean, with no appreciable fading, toning, or scuffing, and only minor wear confined to the blank white margins. The verso features a four-line ink stamp at the lower left reading “OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOS | ANTHONY F. WIN | 2439 NORTH FRANCISCO AVE | CHICAGO 47,… Read More

Canada: Unknown, 1941. This intriguing bit of Second World War ephemera is an original Second World War card, produced in Canada, undated but presumably produced in 1941. The card features images and quotes from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. The card is printed on a single sheet measuring 12.5 x 9.5 inches folded once horizontally and once vertically to form panels of 6.25 x 4.75 inches. On the cover panel, in red, blue, and gold, are printed American and British flags with an encircled maple leaf medallion between them reading “GREETINGS FROM CANADA”. Above the medallion are two clasped hands and above that an arched proclamation “UNITED WE STAND”. On the left interior panel are images of Roosevelt and Churchill. Below Roosevelt’s image is the Longfellow quote he sent to Churchill on 27 January 1941 and below Churchill’s image is his 9 February reply to Roosevelt. On the right interior panel is an unattributed quote “We shall not fail… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition, first printing. 3/4 leather. This magnificent set is the printer’s special presentation binding of the U.S. first edition, first printing of The Second World War, Winston Churchill's history of the epic 20th century struggle that was so indelibly stamped by his leadership. This is the only such set we have encountered, apparently unknown to both the collecting community and Churchill’s bibliographers. The bindings are compelling in both craftsmanship and appearance, featuring three-quarter brown Morocco goatskin with marbled paper-cover boards. The spines feature gilt-ruled compartments separated by raised and gilt-decorated spine bands. The covers feature gilt-ruled transitions. The contents are bound with gilt top edges, red and gold silk head and tail bands, and endpapers matching the marbled paper of the boards. The set is housed in a single, stout, brown cloth-covered slipcase with individual compartments for each volume, each compartment… Read More