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George G Harrap & Co 1938. FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, frontispiece, 466pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, minor tanning to prelims & terminals)

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.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6.3 inches). Publishers blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Double blind ruled borders on boards. Some offsetting to half title and title page, from the frontis photograph but the rest of the pages are clean and unmarked. Spine is uniformly a little bit faded but the gilt still bright and vibrant. A couple of small spots to the front board but overall a better than very good copy.

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.

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

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 465. 8vo. Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's topstain. Portrait frontispiece. Some general shelfwear, a couple of bumps, spine dry, offsetting to half-title and rear endpaper (often seen in this edition and presumably from binder's glue), ink name, contents otherwise unmarked; very good in the original, unclipped pale blue dustjacket which shows discolouration to the spine, some scuffing, and chips and tears at edges. "Each speech is preceeded by its individual divisional half-title and diary of events". Only 5000 copies of this edition were printed. Woods A44(a).

London: George G. Harrap, 1938-1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 466 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Churchill. Blue cloth hardcover in mylar-covered rare yellow dustjacket. Jacket has light soiling and small tears. Spine darkened with chip at head. Front flap unclipped. Ink inscription on front free endpaper is that of J. L. Rudd, 345 Island Park Drive, Ottawa, who signed Dec. 9 1940. Discolouration to half-title and rear leaf. Faint offsetting to title. These speeches, published just after he became prime minister, are the precursors to Churchill's great war speeches. Spanning the years 1928 to 1938, the speeches criticize British foreign policy and warn of the upcoming danger of another war. The world will always remember the resolute war leader to whom Britain turned when facing invasion, but many forget the years leading up to World War II when Churchill made impassioned, eloquent and largely unheeded warning speeches about the increasing power of Nazi Germany. Only 5,000 copies of… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1940. First English “Cheap”Edition (Cohen A107.3) (Woods A44a). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (466 pages, with frontis photo). Unsold copies of the first printing of ARMS AND THE COVENANT were re-issued as this so-called "Cheap Edition” by Churchill's publisher Harrap in June 1940, a month after he became Prime Minister. The only new feature was a new dust jacket, printed a vivid yellow with deep red type. This is a very good copy, with an unclipped dust jacket that is bright on the front face, age-darkened and edge-chipped on the rear face, and toned across a spine that was at one time misfolded. The book itself is virtually mint, the cloth a rich and unfaded dark blue, including the notoriously fade-prone spine. The binding is tight, the corners square. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front pastedown and the usual toning to the half-title from the frontis photo. A wartime rarity.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1940. First English Edition (Cohen A107.3) (Woods A44a). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (466 pages). Unsold copies of the first printing of ARMS AND THE COVENANT were re-issued as this so-called "Cheap Edition" by Harrap in June 1940. The books were untouched, the only new feature was a new dust jacket, printed a vivid yellow with deep red type. This is a very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket that remains bright on the front face with light fading to the spine. The book itself is crisp, tight and unfaded. The contents are fine, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front pastedown and a discreetly inked former-owner’s name hand-dated “July 1940” on the front free endpaper. The fore-edges are foxed and there is the usual flap shadow on the half-title. Else fine.

London, George G. Harrap & Co.,, 1938. Finely bound copy First edition, first impression, very handsomely bound, of this important collection of Churchill's speeches from 1928 to 1938, warning of the dangers of a re-armed Germany. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles to spine with lion centre tools in compartments, raised bands, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece portrait. Slight browning to half-title an excellent copy in a fine binding. Cohen A107; Woods 44a

London: George G. Harrap, 1938. First edition of this collection of speeches, signed by Churchill's son Randolph, who was the editor of this volume. Octavo, original cloth, photographic frontispiece of Churchill. Signed on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed by Randolph S. Churchill." In near fine condition.