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London: Punch, 1925. 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 OLD LOVE AND THE NEW." appeared thus on p.183 of the 18 February 1925 issue of Punch. The artist is Bernard Partridge. The image is captioned "MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S DILEMMA." This cartoon portrays Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill as torn between competing financial needs. The cartoon is based on a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds entitled David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy. Partridge portrays the age-old battle between how much to spend on the defense budget versus domestic needs. Punch or The London Charivari began featuring Churchill cartoons in 1900, when his political career was just beginning.… Read More

H.M.S. Duke of York: British Admiralty Press Division, 1944. Photograph. This striking Second World War photograph is remarkable for location, time, subject, and signature. General Bernard Law Montgomery and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser are captured striding on the deck of the Flagship H.M.S. Duke of York on 6 May 1944, one month before the D-Day Normandy landings. In the background is one of the 14 inch guns that Fraser himself designed. Measuring 10 x 8 inches, the photograph is annotated and signed by Montgomery in black ink in seven lines. At the top center, Montgomery wrote: “Visit to Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser | C-in-C Home Fleet | 6 May 1944.” At the lower right, adjacent to and below his own feet, Montgomery signed and wrote “B. L. Montgomery | General. | C-in-C British Group of Armies.” A final line at the bottom center between Fraser and Montgomery reads: “H.M.S. Duke of York.” There are two British Admiralty stamps on the verso. At the upper right, stamped and bordered in purple… Read More

Melbourne, Australia: The Henry George Foundation, January 1942. Second Edition. Paperback. Second edition, first printing. Near fine condition. This is a wartime reprint of extracts from two Churchill speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 4 May 1909 and at King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 July 1909. This pamphlet was first published as "The Menace of Land Monopoly" by the Henry George foundation in 1941. In 1942 the pamphlet was retitled and republished as "On Human Rights". The publisher's introductory note states: "In now publishing these extracts it is hoped that Mr. Churchill's eloquent and emphatic criticism of the present Land System will not be lost sight of in the post-war reconstruction for a New Social Order of which so much is being heard." The pamphlet measures 7.125 inches tall x 4.75 inches wide. It is sixteen pages in length with stapled cream colored card wraps. The front cover bears a decidedly resolute head and shoulders image of Churchill. This copy is crisp and bright.… Read More

Melbourne, Australia: The Henry George Foundation, January 1942. Second Edition. Paperback. Second edition, first printing. Very good+ condition and quite rare thus. This is a wartime reprint of extracts from two Churchill speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 4 May 1909 and at King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 July 1909. This pamphlet was first published as "The Menace of Land Monopoly" by the Henry George foundation in 1941. In 1942 the pamphlet was retitled and republished as "On Human Rights". The publisher's introductory note states: "In now publishing these extracts it is hoped that Mr. Churchill's eloquent and emphatic criticism of the present Land System will not be lost sight of in the post-war reconstruction for a New Social Order of which so much is being heard." The pamphlet measures 7.125 inches tall x 4.75 inches wide. It is sixteen pages in length with stapled cream colored card wraps. The front cover bears a decidedly resolute head and shoulders image of Churchill. This is a… Read More

New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1963. Third edition (First U.S. edition), first printing. Paperback. In 1941, extracts from two Churchill speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 4 May 1909 and at King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 July 1909, were published as "The Menace of Land Monopoly" by the Henry George Foundation of Australia. A second edition of 1942 retitled the publication as "On Human Rights". The publisher's original introductory note states: "In now publishing these extracts it is hoped that Mr. Churchill's eloquent and emphatic criticism of the present Land System will not be lost sight of in the post-war reconstruction for a New Social Order of which so much is being heard." Less well known is this first American edition (the third edition overall following the first two Australian editions) published in the early 1960s by The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. Robert Schalkenbach was a wealthy printer who established a fund to promote public awareness of the social… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a pre-publication publisher's review copy of the U.S. first edition, only printing in collector-worthy condition. Laid in, we were pleased to discover an original Little, Brown & Company review slip. Addressed “To the literary editor:” the slip specifies “This book will be published on:” with an ink-stamped date of “JUL 13 1944”. Three requests are printed: “Do not review before publication date. Send tear sheets or clippings of your review. Do not quote more than 500 words without special permission.” The volume is in near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is beautifully bright and clean with sharp corners. We note only trivial wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are likewise notably clean with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. The dust jacket is neatly price-clipped with light wear to extremities and tiny chip losses to the spine head and corners, but… Read More

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1944. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fourth volume of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill's war speeches, containing Churchill's speeches from 1943. Condition is very good. The blue cloth binding is clean and tight with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and only light shelf wear to extremities. The contents are respectably bright with no previous ownership marks. Spotting is primarily confined to the first and final leaves and the page edges. In this fourth volume of Here the oratory takes a more positive tone as Churchill and the Allies begin to anticipate victory. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Churchill cautioned, invoking, for his American audience, the grim memory of the prolonged outcome of the U.S. Civil War, "No one after Gettysburg doubted… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a superior copy of the U.S. first edition, first printing of Churchill's fourth war speeches volume, containing Churchill's speeches from 1943. Here the oratory takes a more positive tone as Churchill and the Allies begin to anticipate victory. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Churchill cautioned, invoking, for his American audience, the grim memory of the prolonged outcome of the U.S. Civil War, "No one after Gettysburg doubted which way the dread balance of war would incline.  Yet far more blood was shed after the Union victory at Gettysburg than in all the fighting which went before.” That theme of maintaining the momentum of urgency repeated throughout the year. On 9 November 1943 Churchill told the audience at the Lord MayorÂ’s Day Luncheon "We must not lose… Read More

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1944. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This Second World War presentation copy of the first edition, first printing of the fourth volume of Prime Minister Winston S. ChurchillÂ’s war speeches is inscribed and dated by Churchill in 1945 and was owned by his Private Secretary and unauthorized chronicler of 10 Downing Street, Sir John “Jock” Colville. The inscription, inked by Churchill during the final year of his wartime premiership in three lines on the front free endpaper recto, reads: “from | Winston S. Churchill | 1945”. ColvilleÂ’s bookplate, featuring his coat of arms, printed name, and motto “OBLIER NE PUIS”, is affixed to the front pastedown, opposite ChurchillÂ’s inscription. Condition of this inscribed, wartime presentation copy is very good in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, and tight with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and only trivial shelf wear to joints and extremities. The contents are uncommonly… Read More

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1944. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fourth volume of Churchill's war speeches, containing Churchill's speeches from 1943. Here the oratory takes a more positive tone as Churchill and the Allies begin to anticipate victory. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Churchill cautioned, invoking, for his American audience, the grim memory of the prolonged outcome of the U.S. Civil War, "No one after Gettysburg doubted which way the dread balance of war would incline. Yet far more blood was shed after the Union victory at Gettysburg than in all the fighting which went before.” That theme of maintaining the momentum of urgency repeated throughout the year. On 9 November 1943 Churchill told the audience at the Lord MayorÂ’s Day Luncheon "We must not lose for a… Read More

London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is an exceptionally clean first edition, second printing. This second printing was published in May 1939, the same month as the first printing, and is identical with the sole exception of the print history on the copyright page. Condition is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket is clean, bright, and complete apart from a neatly price-clipped lower front flap. Trivial wear is confined to hinges and extremities. The jacket is fitted with a clear, removable, archival cover. The volume beneath it suits its jacket. The khaki cloth binding is tight and clean with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and no appreciable wear apart from a little wrinkling to the spine heel. The contents are bright with a crisp, unread feel. The brown-stained top edges retain deep, unfaded color. The sole detraction that prevents our grading the volume as fine is spotting, primarily confined to the prelims and to the fore and… Read More

New York: E. F. Foley, 1932. Photograph. This is a scarce and compelling inter-war photograph portrait of Winston S. Churchill captured by E. F. Foley, signed by both the photographer and Churchill. The gelatin silver print image measures 7.75 x 5.625 inches (19.69 x 14.29 cm) on a 10 x 8 inch (25.4 x 20.32 cm) sheet. Foley signed just below the lower right corner of the image “E. F. Foley” in pencil. Churchill signed directly below Foley in ink “Winston S. Churchill 1932”. The only other notation is “25” in pencil on the verso. Condition is excellent, the print exceptionally clear and well-preserved with no appreciable flaws. The custom, archival conservation framing features 15 x 12.75 black and gold painted wood, the window double matted lending further depth to the photo, protected beneath Optimum Museum Acrylic. We have owned this print for nearly 30 years, before which it long resided in another noteworthy Churchill collection. In 1929, Churchill lost both his ministerial salary and a… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950s. Here are two original, hand painted and lettered dust jacket design concepts for the American first edition of Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by the influential mid-Twentieth Century book jacket designer Philip Grushkin (1921-1998). The designs are executed in gouache, watercolor, ink, and paste-down image on board.  The Volume I design measures 8.5 x 9.5 inches, the Volume II design 8.5 x 7.25 inches.  The design for The Birth of Britain is what we may assume to be an early concept, as the published design shares only the general red and blue colors and banded layout. Grushkin's Volume II design is of particular interest as it features the title Liberty and Sovereignty instead of the published title The New World. The Volume II dust jacket design is otherwise more similar to the published jacket, with the same style lettering and photo of Churchill used in the final design for the first volume. Emended to the spine of Grushkin's design… Read More

Quebec City: unpublished. Photographic negatives. This is a set of original negatives of apparently unpublished images of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill taken on 18 August 1943 at the Second World War ‘QuadrantÂ’ conference in Quebec City.  Churchill and Roosevelt are prominent in seven of the nine images, pictured variously with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Governor General of Canada the Earl of Athlone, Princess Alice, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken, and British Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sir Alexander Cadogan. Particularly compelling are a close shot of Churchill with his cigar smoke trailing across his countenance, of MacKenzie King with his right hand across his forehead as if in amusement or exasperation, of Churchill leaning in toward Princess Alice, of Eden and Roosevelt turned toward one another in conversation, and of just Churchill, Roosevelt, and King, seated… Read More

Cape Town: C. Struik (Pty) Ltd., 1974. 1st Edition. Full leather. Otto Landsberg (1803-1905) was a German-born artist who moved to South Africa with his parents when he was 14. He was a painter, art teacher and musician. His works were inspired by the masters of the Italian Renaissance. This "De Luxe Edition", in fine condition, is signed by the author and "limited to one-hundred copies", this being no. 51. The green pebble grain morocco binding is nearly perfect, marred only by a tiny spot of wear at the base of the spine. The profusely illustrated contents are clean, bright, and tight. A lovely production in every respect.

United States Navy, 1942. Photograph. This is an original Second World War Official U. S. Navy photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, being abandoned during the afternoon of 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In the image sailors slide down ropes on LexingtonÂ’s starboard quarter while a destroyer pulls up alongside Lexington to rescue crewmembers. She was the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier lost in the Second World War. The gelatin silver print measures 10 x 8.125 inches (25.4 x 20.6 cm). Condition is very good plus, the paper complete and the image clean, with no appreciable fading, toning, or scuffing. Trivial wear appears confined to the edges and within the white border margins. Inked in blue in the lower white margin center is the word “Lexington”. The verso features a four-line ink stamp reading “OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOS | ANTHONY F. WIN | 2439 NORTH FRANCISCO AVE | CHICAGO 47, ILLINOIS”. Above and to the right of the ink stamp, written in pencil, is “USS… Read More

Stockholm: Copyright A.B. Text & Bilder, published by Svenska Dagbladets, 1941. Photograph. This is an original Second World War press photograph of Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill inspecting an American tank in August 1941. Although the United States did not formally enter the Second World War until December 1941, the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941 greatly increased the flow of material aid to Britain by authorizing the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to "any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States." Britain proved the primary recipient of such aid, testified by this image. The gelatin silver print on glossy photo paper measures 4.625 x 7.25 inches (11.75 x 18.42 cm). Condition approaches very good, the image bright despite superficial blemishes and scuffs visible under raking light and a single pinhole at each corner. The front of the tank is in the foreground, Churchill centered, attended by a civilian and military coterie,… Read More

Stockholm: Britiska Legationen, 6 September 1943. Photograph. This original wartime press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill addressing U.S. Navy and Army cadets at Harvard University on 6 September 1943 after receiving an honorary degree and delivering a speech. The gelatin silver print is on heavy glossy photo paper and measures 9 x 7.25 in (22.86 x 18.415 cm). Condition is very good, the image clean, minor wear mostly confined to the extremities. Affixed to the verso is an original typed slip featuring numerical designation for the photo, title, and explanatory caption. The verso also bears some pencil and ink notation and the ink-stamp of "Britiska Legationen" of "Stockholm" who ostensibly held the copyright. Churchill was present at Harvard that day to receive an honorary degree but with the substantive task of delivering an important speech about Anglo-American cooperation, both of which occurred before he addressed the cadets. Following the first Quebec Conference in… Read More

London: Copyright The Press Association Ltd., published by The Daily Telegraph, 13 December 1977. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and Clementine Churchill on a French beach, Victory in Europe having been secured and the results of the General Election that would remove him from office yet to be made known. This is a later printing of a photograph from 1945. The gelatin silver print on glossy photo paper measures 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm). Condition is good plus. There is some wear to the photographÂ’s edges, creases to the upper left and lower right corners, and some scuffing to the photoÂ’s surface. This photograph was once a part of the archive of The Daily Telegraph, whose art department painted crop markings and printing notations on the photoÂ’s surface. The verso bears a copyright stamp of “The Press Association Ltd.”, a published stamp of The Daily Telegraph dated 13 DEC 1977, a used stamp dated 6 SEP 1992, a clipping of the… Read More

Chicago: Copyright Associated Press, published by The Chicago Tribune, 1943. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, appropriately kitted with pith helmet and sunglasses and with a cigar clenched between his teeth, holding a shell while inspecting a German tank in Tunis on 2 June 1943, shortly after the liberation of North Africa. The gelatin silver print on matte photo paper measures 7.375 x 8.625 inches (18.7 x 21.9 cm). Condition is very good. The paper is clean and only faintly creased at extremities with minor overall rippling. Affixed to the verso is an original newspaper clipping captioned “Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain as he stood atop a captured German Mark VI. Tank in North Africa, holding one of the huge vehicleÂ’s shells.” The caption attributes the photo to “Associated Press Wirephoto.” The newspaper clipping is date-stamped “JUN 16 1943”. An additional “NOTICE” ink stamp directly on the verso stipulates that “This… Read More