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Hillsdale College Press, January 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Heinemann,, [1986]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the Popular Edition with pictorial dustwrapper.

Heinemann,, [1988]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the Popular Edition with pictorial dustwrapper.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First American edition of the fourth volume in the official biography of Winston S. Churchill. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps, photographic frontispiece of Churchill at Lille, October 1918. Near fine in a good dust jacket. A monumental work spanning over twenty volumes, the official biography of Winston S. Churchill was authored and edited by several individuals, primarily Churchill's son, Randolph Churchill and later his official biographer, Martin Gilbert. The first two volumes were written by Churchill's son, Randolph Churchill, who also edited the two companions to volume one. Following Randolph's work, historian Martin Gilbert took on the role of official biographer. Gilbert supervised the posthumous publication of three companions to volume two, which were published under Randolph Churchill's name, as Randolph had compiled much of the material during his lifetime. Later, in 2008, Gilbert announced that… Read More

Heinemann,, [1972]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt backs, red tops, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-marked at extremities. Companion Part 1: August 1914-April 1915; Companion Part 2: May 1915-December 1916.

Heinemann, 1972-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in.

London: Heinemann, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Heinemann, 1967 to 1988 (all first editions, with the exception of Volume 3, a second impression in the same year as the first edition). Octavo, eight volumes, approximately 10,000 pages in all, plus numerous plates. Red cloth with top edges dyed red (or papered boards with plain top edges on Volumes 6 and 8); some cloth-bound volumes slightly flecked, with the top-edge dye a little faded in places; Volume 6 has an 'Illustrated London News' review clipping mounted on the front free endpaper, and a small light stain to the leading edge, with minimal cockling to the top corner-tip of the first 30 leaves; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent set with the dustwrappers (three of them price-clipped, the first three slightly chipped, with slightly bubbled laminate and a few short tears, and all but Volumes 6 and 8 the uniform edition version). Specific details of the individual volumes are as follows. Volume 1:… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1975-1977. First edition of the fourth volume in the official multi-volume biography of Winston S. Churchill; complete with all three parts of its companion volume. Octavo, 4 volumes, original publisher's cloth, top edges red, illustrated, photographic frontispiece portrait of Churchill at Lille, October 1918. Each volume is near fine in a fine dust jacket A monumental work spanning over twenty volumes, the official biography of Winston S. Churchill was authored and edited by several individuals, primarily Churchill's son, Randolph Churchill and later his official biographer, Martin Gilbert. The first two volumes were written by Churchill's son, Randolph Churchill, who also edited the two companions to volume one. Following Randolph's work, historian Martin Gilbert took on the role of official biographer. Gilbert supervised the posthumous publication of three companions to volume two, which were published under Randolph Churchill's name, as Randolph had compiled… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition of Companion Volume V, Part 2 of the Official Biography of Sir Winston Churchill. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes and - so far - seventeen accompanying document or "Companion" volumes. The eight main text volumes were originally published between 1966 and 1988. Publication of the Companion volumes was completed in 2019. The Companion volumes for Volume V of the Official Biography are perhaps the most keenly sought and most prohibitive to acquire of all Official Biography volumes. The British and U.S. first editions saw just a single printing and the Volume V Companions were published in smaller quantities than other Companion volumes - meaning that many first edition Official Biography sets will forever do without. The… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1993. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a set of British first editions of the three War Papers volumes, the final volumes of Winston Churchill’s Official Biography completed before the death of Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but substantially completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes (the narrative story of Churchill’s life) and twenty-three accompanying document or "Companion" volumes. The eight main text volumes were originally published between 1966 and 1988. These three War Papers volumes (which comprise document volumes fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen) were the last completed by Gilbert before his death. The three volumes of The War Papers were published by Heinemann between 1993 and 2000. The first volume contains documents from the outbreak of the Second… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition of Companion Volume V, Part 3 of the Official Biography of Sir Winston Churchill. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes and - so far - seventeen accompanying document or "Companion" volumes. The eight main text volumes were originally published between 1966 and 1988. Publication of the Companion volumes was compelted in 2019. This is the rarest, most keenly sought, and most prohibitive to acquire of the Official Biography Companion volumes. The British first edition saw just a single printing in England and the Volume V Companions were published in smaller quantities than other Companion volumes - meaning that many British first edition Official Biography sets will forever do without. The third is the rarest of the three… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Heinemann, 1966 to 1988 (all first editions). Large octavo, 21 volumes (eight volumes of biography, and 13 companion volumes), complete as issued, with all plates as called for. Variously cloth and papered boards; trifling signs of use and age (including some light flecking and rubbing); an excellent set with the excellent dustwrappers occasionally a little sunned and rubbed, with a few short tears). Volumes 4 and 8 of the Biography are not from the Uniform Edition. The biography proper comprises eight volumes, as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1966). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916 (1971). Volume 4: 1917-1922 (1975). Volume 5: 1922-1939 (1976). Volume 6: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (1983). Volume 7: Road to Victory, 1941-1945 (1986). Volume 8: Never Despair, 1945-1965 (1988). The companion series comprises thirteen volumes, as follows. Companion Volume I, Part 1:… Read More

Heinemann,, [1966-88]. 8 Main Volumes plus 13 Companion Volumes, together 21 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with titles in red and black, maps and geneaological tables; original cloth, gilt backs, red tops where called for, two or three wrappers with light chafing at edges, a few Companion volumes mildly sunned at backstrips, one Companion volume neatly recased else a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The Main Volumes comprise: Vol I: Youth 1874-1900; Vol. II: Young Statesman 1901-1914; Vol. III: 1914-1916; Vol. IV: 1917-1922; Vol. V: 1922-1939; Vol. VI: Finest Hour 1939-1941; Vol. VII: Road to Victory 1941-1945; Vol. VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965. The Companion Volumes comprise Volume I Part 1: 1874-1896; Volume I Part 2: 1896-1900; Volume II Part 1: 1901-1907; Volume II Part 2: 1907-1911; Volume II Part 3: 1911-1914; Volume III Part 1: August 1914-April 1915; Volume III Part 2: May 1915-December 1916; Volume IV Part 1: January 1917-June 1919; Volume IV Part 2: July 1919-March 1921;… Read More