Arms and the Covenant. by CHURCHILL, Winston S - 1938: Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. Cover: blue cloth on board with gilt titles; mild rubbed wear and light dusting of soiling. Edges: old yellowing and faint few only foxing. Greying to head edge. Thin bumping to head & foot of spine. Soft rubbing and tiny bumping to fore corners. Name & 1940 to head ffep. B/w illustration of Winston S. Churchill on frontispiece. Light foxing to many pages albeit mostly to the margins. Binding is very good. 466p. First Edition. Hb. VG/None.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. Pp. 466, frontispiece portrait; demy 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper board with double rule border in blind, boards lightly marked, spine slightly faded; top edges blue/grey; pencilled ownership inscription on title page, half-title page and lower blank offset and browned, edges of leaves lightly browned; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1938. First edition. Cohen A107; Woods A44(a). *Texts of 41 speeches by Churchill on foreign affairs and national defence, delivered between October 1928 and March 1938, mostly to the House of Commons.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1938. First English Edition (Cohen A107.1) (Woods A44a). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (466 pages). This is a very good copy of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth has faded unevenly and somewhat blotchilly. The contents are fine, with frontis photo toning to the half-title, as per usual.

(Kansas City): George G. Harrap ., 1938. Spine lettered in gilt, very lightly sunned. Small bookseller sticker front pastedown (Henry Sotheran). Portrait frontispiece of the author. Half-title page browned. Internally crisp and clean throughout. A series of speeches during the period of 1928-1938 warning of the danger of rearming Germany.466pp. See Woods A44(a). . First English Edition. Blue Cloth. Veery Light Edge Wear Only/No Dust Jacket. Demi Octavo.

London: George G. Harrap & Co.,, 1938. First edition, first impression, the working copy of the compiler, Churchill's son Randolph Churchill, with his bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns and his extensive pencil annotations and frequent excision of passages and leaves. It is probable Randolph was attacking the volume with an eye to producing an abridged edition. Seven leaves are entirely cut out, as are sections of six others; numerous pages are struck out with his pencil. Each speech is preceded by a section of relevant dates giving context. Randolph has ticked certain dates, and in one case sidelined an event and written "not this". If an abridgement was his purpose, no further such edition was published. Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Photographic half-tone frontispiece of the author. Spine sunned, contents partly excised and heavily annotated (see note): an extensively-altered familial copy. Cohen A107.1; Woods 44a.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1938. First English Edition (Cohen A107.1) (Woods A44a). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (466 pages). This is an extremely beautiful copy of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth is uniquely unfaded, particularly along the fade-prone spine. The contents are fine, with light, scattered foxing to the fore-edge only. A discreet sticker from The [London] Times Book Club is affixed to the rear pastedown, else fine. Quite lovely.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. First Edition, only printing. Hardcover. This book is the precursor to Churchill’s great war speeches, the first edition, only printing. This particular copy is increasingly scarce thus, in the first issue dust jacket. The dust jacket has done its job protecting the book beneath, which is near fine - noteworthy for being uncommonly clean inside and out. The binding is not only square, tight, and entirely unfaded, but immaculately clean with sharp corners and virtually no wear. The contents are mildly age-toned, but retain a crisp, unread feel and show no spotting – not even on the fore and bottom edges. The blue topstain retains uniform, dark hue. We note customary browning to the half-title from the pastedown glue and the illustrated bookplate of “B. D. Farquharson” affixed to the front pastedown. Overall, this is among the cleanest copies we have encountered. The first issue dust jacket shows more age and wear than the lovely book it has sheltered.… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. First Edition, only printing. Hardcover. This book is the precursor to Churchill’s great war speeches, the first edition, only printing. This particular copy is increasingly scarce thus, in the first issue dust jacket. Condition is good plus in a good dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, clean and tight with only minor shelf wear to extremities. The only sunning corresponds to jacket losses at the upper and lower spine and upper and lower front face, confirming that this book and its dust jacket have always been paired. The contents retain a crisp feel and spotting is minor. Nonetheless, we do note age toning, dog-eared corners at the leaves spanning pages 433-446, and fading as well as a light moisture stain to the top edge of the text block (which does not intrude whatsoever upon the inner margins). The sole previous ownership mark is a tiny bookseller sticker affixed to the lower rear pastedown of “Thorburn & Abbott Ld. Booksellers” of… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. First Edition, only printing. Hardcover. This book is the precursor to Churchill’s great war speeches, the first edition, only printing. This particular copy is increasingly scarce thus, in the first issue dust jacket. This copy is very good in a very good minus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is beautifully square, clean, bright, and tight with sharp corners and vivid spine gilt. We note only a hint of sunning at the spine tips. The contents retain a crisp, unread feel. Trivial spotting appears confined to the endpapers, half-title, and the blank frontispiece recto. The sole previous ownership markings are initials and a surname, neatly and diminutively inked on the upper right half-title recto. The fore and bottom edges are clean apart from modest age-toning. The blue-stained top edges are uniformly dulled. This copy would merit “very good plus” or better if not for a missing front free endpaper. This has been neatly but fully removed, so that the… Read More

George G. Harrap, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Wonderful Sangorsk & Sutcliff Binding ( burgundy Morocco fain at spine gold page edges around very tight and unused Raised bands on spine Portrait frontis