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The Crisis
by
Winston Churchill
with illustrations
by
Howard Chandler Christy
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This is
the 1901 First Edition
Please note that this is the
American author, Winston Churchill (1871-1947) and
NOT the British Prime
Minister and Statesman, Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) |
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Publisher and place of
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Dimensions in inches (to
the nearest quarter-inch) |
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New York: The Macmillan Company and London:
Macmillan & Co. Ltd |
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4¾ inches wide x 7 inches tall |
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Edition |
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Length |
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1901 First Edition |
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[ix] + 522 pages + Publishers’ catalogue |
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Condition of covers |
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Internal condition |
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Original red cloth gilt. The covers are marked
and rubbed, with a small stain on the front cover. There is a spine lean.
The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed, with splits in the cloth
and some loss of cloth at the head of the spine. The cloth has worn away on
the corners, exposing the card beneath. |
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The front inner hinge is cracked and there is
some play in the inner hinges. There is a label on the front pastedown ("The
Tabard Inn Library"). A few pages are soiled (please see the image below)
but the text is, in general, clean throughout. The end-papers are lightly
foxed. The frontispiece has partially adhered to the Title Page on the
inside edge. |
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Dust-jacket present? |
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Other
comments |
No
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There is some wear to the covers and a spine
lean, but this remains an acceptable example of the 1901 First Edition. |
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Illustrations,
maps, etc |
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Contents |
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With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy
: Please see below for details |
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Please see below for details |
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Post & shipping
information |
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Payment options |
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The packed weight is approximately
800 grams.
Full shipping/postage information is
provided in a panel
at the end of this listing.
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Payment options
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UK bidders: cheque (in
GBP), debit card, credit card (Visa, MasterCard but
not Amex), PayPal
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International bidders: credit card
(Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal
Full payment information is provided in a
panel at the end of this listing. |
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The Crisis
Contents
BOOK I
I. Which deals with Origins
II. The Mole
III. The Unattainable Simplicity
IV. Black Cattle
V. The First Spark passes
VI. Silas Whipple
VII. Callers
VIII. Bellegarde
IX. A Quiet Sunday in Locust Street
X. The Little House
XI. The Invitation
XII. "Miss Jinny"
XIII. The Party
BOOK II
I. Raw Material
II. Abraham Lincoln
III. In which Stephen learns Something
IV. The Question
V. The Crisis
VI. Glencoe
VII. An Excursion
VIII. The Colonel is warned
IX. Signs of the Times
X. Richter's Scar
XI. How a Prince came
XII. Into which a Potentate comes
XIII. At Mr. Brinsmade's Gate
XIV. The Breach becomes too Wide
XV. Mutterings
XVI. The Guns of Sumter
XVII. Camp Jackson
XVIII. The Stone that is rejected
XIX. The Tenth of May
XX. In the Arsenal
XXI. The Stampede
XXII. The Straining of Another Friendship
XXIII. Of Clarence
BOOK III
I. Introducing a Capitalist
It. News from Clarence
III. The Scourge of War
IV. The List of Sixty
V. The Auction
VI. Eliphalet plays his Trumps
VII. With the Armies of the West
VIII. A Strange Meeting
IX. Bellegarde Once More
X. In Judge Whipple's Office
XI. Lead, Kindly Light
XII. The Last Card
XIII. From the Letters of Major Stephen Brice
XIV. The Same, Continued
XV. The Man of Sorrows
XVI. Annapolis
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
“Max, you are
going to stay here ? ”
“Please find Mr. Hood,' directed Mr. Colfax ”
“He's a bachelor,' said Virginia; 'what use has he
got for it?' ”
“So you have come at last to try again, Mr. Brice ?
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“If you answer back, out you go, like that I ' ”
“They told me you were not coming !' ”
“The Captain was given an audience ”
“Twice Stephen shook him so that his head beat upon
the table ”
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Biographical Information
Churchill was born in St. Louis,
Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine)
Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United
States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an
editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to
pursue a writing career. While he would be most successful as a
novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.
His first novel was The Celebrity (1898). (Mr. Keegan's Elopement
was published in 1896 within a magazine. In 1903 it was republished
as an illustrated hardback book.) Churchill's next novel—Richard
Carvel (1899)—was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million
copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich. His
next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were
also very successful.
Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were
set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his
political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist
style of literature, and some have called him the most influential
of the American naturalists.
In 1899, Churchill moved to Cornish, New Hampshire. He became
involved in politics and was elected to the state legislature in
1903 and 1905. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination
for governor in 1906. In 1912, he was nominated as the Progressive
candidate for Governor but did not win the election. He did not
again seek office. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War
I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work.
Sometime after this move, he took up watercolours, and also became
known for his landscapes. In 1919, Churchill decided to stop writing
and withdrew from public life. As a result of this he was gradually
forgotten by the public. In 1940, The Uncharted Way, his first book
in 20 years, was published. The book examined Churchill's thoughts
on religion. He did not seek to publicize the book and it received
little attention. Shortly before his death he said, "It is very
difficult now for me to think of myself as a writer of novels, as
all that seems to belong to another life."
Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida in 1947.
Churchill met and occasionally
communicated with his namesake, the British statesman and author
Winston Churchill (no known relation). It was the American Churchill
who became famous earlier, and in the 1890s he was much better known
than his British namesake. The two are still occasionally confused,
although the British Churchill wrote only one novel. Both Churchills
had political careers, and were both noted amateur painters. The
similarities extend to their tertiary education; both attended
service colleges and briefly served simultaneously as officers in
their respective countries' armed forces.
The British Churchill, upon becoming aware of his namesake's books,
wrote to him suggesting that he would sign his own works "Winston S.
Churchill", using his middle name (actually part of his surname),
"Spencer", to differentiate them. This suggestion was accepted, with
the comment that the American Churchill would have done the same,
had he any middle names.
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Please note: to avoid opening the book out, with the
risk of damaging the spine, some of the pages were slightly raised on the
inner edge when being scanned, which has resulted in some blurring to the
text and a
shadow on the inside edge of the final images.
Some of the illustrations may
be shown enlarged for greater detail and clarity.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE
BIDDERS |
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U.K. Bidders:
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To estimate the
“packed
weight” each book is first weighed and then
an additional amount of 200 grams is added to allow for the packaging
material (all
books are securely wrapped and posted in a cardboard book-box). The weight
of the book and packaging is
then rounded up to the nearest hundred grams to arrive at the postage
figures below. I make no charge for packaging materials and
do not seek to profit
from postage and packaging. Postage can be combined for multiple purchases. |
Packed weight: approximately 800gr
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Please contact me with name and
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otherwise I reserve the right to cancel the auction and re-list the item.
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International
Bidders:
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To estimate the
“packed
weight” each book is first weighed and then
an additional amount of 200 grams is added to allow for the packaging
material (all
books are securely wrapped and posted in a cardboard book-box). The
weight of the book and packaging is then rounded up to the nearest
hundred grams to arrive at the postage figures below.
I make no charge for packaging materials and do not
seek to profit
from shipping and handling.
Shipping can
usually be combined for multiple purchases
(to a
maximum
of 5 kilograms in any one parcel with the exception of Canada, where
the limit is 2 kilograms). |
Packed weight: approximately 800gr
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