Search Results: A Speech By the Prime Minister the Right Honoura… by Winston S Churchill

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (H.M.S.O.), The Baynard Press, 1940. First edition. Pamphlet. This is the first edition, only printing of one of Churchill's most famous speeches. Churchill's speech to Parliament of August 20th, 1940 was occasioned in part by the Battle of Britain and famously honored the RAF pilots who almost single-handedly prevented Nazi invasion of England. Printed deep red on light gray paper wraps and wire stitched, this speech pamphlet measures 9.75 inches x 6 inches (24.8 x 15.2 cm) and is 16 pages in length. Given the fragility of the edition, most copies understandably suffer from significant wear, soiling, tanning, and spotting. This is an unusually well-preserved copy in very good plus condition. The gray paper wraps are complete, without evident toning, with no vertical or horizontal creasing, and firmly attached, both original binding staples still intact and showing only the slightest hint of corrosion. The wraps show only quite mild soiling and spotting and… Read More

London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1940. First Thus (Cohen A131.1) (Woods A60a). Pamphlet. Very Good. 9 7/8 x 6 inches (16 pages). “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill’s iconic speech celebrating victory in the “Battle of Britain” has become quite scarce in this handsomely produced, First Pamphlet Printing, by His Majesty’s Stationery Office. This is a far better than average copy, with covers that are complete and barely faded at all, though lightly wrinkled, with some faint edge-toning, front and rear. The contents are fine and unfoxed. Increasingly rare thus.