Sir Winston Churchill rare books

First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, xxii, [i], 462; x, [iii], 499 pp., 2 frontispieces, 45 illustrations, 34 maps and plans (some folding), original dark grey cloth gilt, gilt vignettes to upper covers and spines, occasional light foxing as usual, inner hinges neatly repaired, an attractive set.

First edition, colonial issue; 8vo, (23 x 16 cm); frontispiece, letter from Government House (Australia) tipped in, leaves a little toned but otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark topstain, watermark to top edge, earliest state pale blue dust jacket, UK price clipped from jacket, Australian label applied to spine, some spotting to jacket, spine toned, overall a very good copy; 466pp.

Depicting Churchill in 1951 during his second premiership, three-quarter length, seated, vintage silverprint, signed by sitter on mount 'Winston S. Churchill', copyright stamp on the reverse, minor rippling to mount where it meets the top edge, top right-hand corner of the photograph, (230 x 150mm); sealed behind contemporary glazing, which has preserved the photograph so well, these 60 years, this framed within a mount and glazed, polished black lacquer wood (400 x 310 mm).

Three individual leaflets. Single leaves printed on one side. A little dusty but in excellent condition.

First edition, vol I signed on the front prelim: 'From Winston Churchill/ July 24 1924'; 2 vols, 8vo; frontispieces, 16 plates, one folding, occasional spotting to vol. I but in the main, clean and bright; lavish twentieth century full black morocco for Asprey, gilt-panelled and bordered with Churchillian devices to front and rear boards as well as the ribbed spins, silk doublures within twin-panelled dentelles, all edges gilt, a fine set.

Centenary Edition; 4 vols, 8vo (233 x 144 mm); publisher's half blue rexine gilt, including the emblem of The Order of the Garter on each front cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, each with the limitation bookplate loosely inserted, numbered 118; a fine set.

First edition, first paperback issue, first state with Index, one Appendix and page 71 erroneously numbered ‘1’; 8vo (220 x 150 x 15 mm); text toned (as usual), a few leaves chipped, loss to corners of preliminary leaves, mostly to half-title that bears ownership label to top, outer corner; publisher’s yellow wrappers pictorially printed in black and blue; chips to wrappers with some loss, some soiling, preserved in a custom-made red morocco solander box gilt.

Depicting Churchill in uniform (4th Queen's Own Hussars), head and shoulders, vintage silverprint, signed on mount 'Winston S. Churchill 14 June 1918', 280 x 320mm (11 by 12½ inches), framed and glazed 480 x 410mm (19 by 16¼ inches), evenly age toned, otherwise very good.