CHURCHILL, WINSTON

The Crossing

London, United Kingdom, MacMillan. 1904, First UK. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Adamson, Sydney; Byliss, Lillian. Navy bds with gilt spine title, cnrs canted and sl. buffed, spine starting with frays, name inked to ffep, pp 598 with 6 illus plates plus ads, tight and mostly clean apart from some foxing to prelims and ends. Very Good/No Jacket.

Ariel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7380

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Adamson, Sydney; Byliss, Lillian

CHURCHILL, Winston

The Crossing

CHURCHILL, Winston. THE CROSSING. Illustrated by Sydney Adamson and Lillian Bayliss. New York/London: The Macmillan Company/Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1904. First edition thus. Signed by Churchill (American author, 1871-1947) on front flyleaf. vii + 598 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertising (includes London's "The Call of the Wild."). 8vo. maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. TEG. Heel, crown and corners somewhat shelfworn/bumped; spine slightly rolled. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Pp. 29-30 partially detached at spine, not affecting text. A few pages roughly opened. Very good overall. Color frontispiece and plates; b/w illustrations in the text. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 80127

Winston Churchill

The Crossing

The Copp Clark Company, 1904. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. pp.598, color illustrations. clean tight copy, tanning to text pages, red cloth covers with gold gilt print,shows rubbing to top and bottom spines, with rubbing to spine hinges and top/bottom spines, slight bumping and wear to corners Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Very Good/Very Good.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 016419

Catalogue: FICTION/LITERATURE, OF INTEREST - OLD/RARE

CHURCHILL, WINSTON

The Crossing

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. First edition, first printing. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering, decoration, and borders on spine and cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with seven full-page, full-color paintings, including tissue-protected frontispiece, by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. In this novel, Davy Richie recounts his travels with George Rogers Clark, who has assembled a volunteer army to seize British outposts north of the Ohio River during the American Revolution. Winston Churchill (1871 – 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. His first novel to appear in book form was The Celebrity (1898). Churchill's next novel—Richard Carvel (1899) — was a phenomenal success. It sold some two million copies in a nation of only 76 million people, and made Churchill rich. His other commercially successful novels included The Crisis (1901), The Crossing (1904), Coniston (1906), Mr. Crewe's Career (1908) and The Inside of the Cup (1913), all of which ranked first on the best-selling American novel list in the years indicated. The volume is in excellent condition, with only minor hints of wear at the head and heel of the spine, and corners, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. Color Plates. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 598, (2-adverts) pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 29079

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Literature Novels Historical Fiction American Revolution Winston Churchill First Edition Illustrated Books American Novels Historical Fiction Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books