The Passion 🧜of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Churchill, Winston

Twenty-eight first editions, uniformly and hands🌳omely bound 

Lot includes: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. Woods A1a. — The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, edited by Col. F. Rhodes. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. Two volumes. Woods A2a. — Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. First English edition. Woods A3b. — London to Ladysmith. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Woods A4. — Ian Hamilton's March. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. Woods A5. — Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan, 1906. Two volumes. Woods A8a. — My African Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Woods A12. — Liberalism and the Social Problem. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Woods A15. — The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1923-1931. Six volumes. Volume III, Part 2 with errata slip. Woods A31a. — My Early Life: A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1930. First edition, first issue. Woods A37a. — Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1932. Woods A39a. [Bound with:] Painting as a Pastime. London: Odhams Press Limited, 1948. Woods A125. — Marlborough: His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap, [1933-1938]. Four volumes. First trade edition. Woods A40a. — Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937. Woods A43a. — Arms and the Covenant. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1938. Woods A44a. — Step by Step. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1939. Woods A45. — Into Battle. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1941. Woods A66a. — The Unrelenting Struggle. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1942. A89. — The End of the Beginning. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1945. Woods A94. — Onwards to Victory. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1944. Woods A101. — Dawn of Liberation. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1945. Woods A107. — Victory. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1946. Woods A112. — The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co., [1948-54]. Six volumes. First English edition. Woods A123b. — The Sinews of Peace. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1948. Woods A124. — Europe Unite. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1950. Woods A128. — In the Balance. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1951. Woods A130. — Stemming the Tide. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1953. A137. — A History of the English Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1956-1958. Four volumes. Woods A138a. Together 45 volumes, various 8vo (175 x 108 mm to 222 x 151 mm). Il🦩lustrations throughout, including portraits, maps, charts, plans, views, some folding, some in color; occasional scattered spotting, but generally clean. Uniformly boꩲund in modern dark blue half morocco over pale blue cloth boards, bound by Bayntun.

Group lots not subject to return. 

A striking set, which includes Churchill's most significant works

The present set begins with The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Churchill's first book, and continues through to his final work, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. In addition to being one of the most prolific statesman in British history, Churchill was also a skilled writer, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." This mastery and breadth is evidenced here through his account of the reconquest of the Sudan in The River War, biographies of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and Marlborough, and his own memoirs of the World Wars, The Great Crisis and The Second World War.

PROVENANCE

Christie's New York, 14 December🐽 2000, lot 27