University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Rare Books & Special Collections Publications Collections 3-2009 Churchill: Introducing the Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan Collection of Winston Churchill University Libraries--University of South Carolina Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/rbsc_pubs Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, "University of South Carolina Libraries - Churchill: Introducing the Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan Collection of Winston Churchill, March 2009". http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/rbsc_pubs/2/ This Catalog is brought to you by the Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rare Books & Special Collections Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHURCHILL Introducing the Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan Collection of Winston S. Churchill Donated to the University of South Carolina, 2009 The Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections University of South Carolina Libraries This brochure lists selected items from the Winston Churchill ColI~ction built by Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan, M.D., of Florence, SC. When Dr. O'Bryan donated the collection to the University of South Carolina, in 2009, it was with the wish that "hundreds of people could have the opportunity to see and use" the collection, and so learn about Churchill "who I regard as the most important man of his century." The O'Bryan Collection includes more than 80 volumes of Churchill's writings (many fIrst editions, specially-bound copies, or inscribed copies), together with books from Churchill's library at Chartwell, artwork, and memorabilia, including a silver pillbox engraved for him as a birthday gift. Of special importance among the visual material are an original oil painting by Churchill, dating from 1935, a signed photographic portrait, and a large mezzotint engraving of Churchill as prime minister. SELECTED BOOKS BY CHURCHILL • The Story ofthe Malaka"d Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition, colonial issue, second state (with errata slip). Original apple-green cloth, with Longman's Colonial Library stampings. • The River War: An Historical Account ofthe Reconquest ofthe Soudan. London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. 2nd impr. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, 2 volumes. • Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First English edition. 2 copies, one in original green cloth stamped in gold, one rebound in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth by Sotheran's, London. • Savrola: A Tale ofthe Revolution in Laurania. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1908. Bound in three-quarter blue calfby Sotheran, London. • London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Original fawn­ colored stamped cloth. • Ian HamJllon's March. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Original red cloth, gilt stamped. • Lord Randolph ChurchUL London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. 2 vols. Original scarlet cloth. • My African Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, original red stamped cloth. • Liberalism and tire Social Problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Original maroon cloth. • The People's Rights. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, rebound in blue crushed morocco and heavy gilt decorations by Sotheran's, London. • A Traveller In War-Time: With an Essay on the American Contribution and the Democradc Idea. New York: Macmillan, 1918. Original maroon cloth, stamped in gold. • The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923-31. First English Edition, five vols. in six parts. Two copies, one in three-quarter blue morocco over blue cloth, bound by Sotheran's, London; one in original blind stamped blue cloth. Volume 1, a presentation copy, "W. J. Reeve / from the author / April 1923." Volume 2, with added note of correction to the text in Churchill's hand, dated Nov. 1, 1923, on a half-sheet of Ministry of Munitions stationery. • My Early Life: A Roving Commbsion. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. Two fU'St editions, one in original plum cloth, one red morocco and gilt Cosway-style binding by Bayntun Riviere, Bath. The Bayntun Riviere copy has a typed note signed by Churchill to Constable A. Berry, dated May 23, 1939, thanking him for his service to the House of Commons. • Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932. Two first editions, one in original khaki cloth, and the secpnd in a red morocco and gilt Cosway-style binding by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, with an inset signature by Churchill in the rear cover. • Marlborough: His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1933-38.4 volumes. The signed, limited state of the first edition. Copy 8 of 155 copies, with a tipped-in page signed by the author, bound in orange morocco by Leighton Straker Ltd. With a complete second set, bound in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath. • Marlborough: His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1933-38. 4 volumes. First edition, in original plum cloth and housed in its original cloth slipcase, each volume an inscribed presentation copy by Churchill to his nephew Giles Samuel Bertram Romilly (l916-1967). • Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937. First edition, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. * The Collected Wartime Speeches. Six vols. London: Cassell and Company Ltd.(1941-46). Uniformly bound in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London. • Canada and the War: The Lord Mayor's Luncheon. •. Ottawa: E. Cloutier, Printer to the King, 1941 . • The Second World War. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-54. First English edition, 6 volumes, in dust jacket. • The Second World War. Chartwell Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.6 volumes, quarter blue leather over tan cloth, with a Churchill painting ofChartwell tipped onto the front boards; book club issue. • Painting as a Pastime. London: Odhams Press LimitedlEinest Benn Limited, 1948. First edition in book form, rebound in blue morocco gilt by W. T. Morrell & Sons. Inscribed "To A. F. Moir from Winston S. Churchill 11948 Christmas." • The Gathering Storm. With: Their Finest Hour. Boston: Houghton Miftlin, 1948. Churchill's signed presentation copy to John Shaw Billings, of Redcliife, SC. John Shaw Billings Collection. • Memoirs ofthe Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes ofSecond World War with an Epilogue by the Author on the Postwar Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Green cloth. Signed by Churchill with the Little Hobcaw, SC, bOokplate. • The Island Race. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1964. First edition, in blue morocco with elaborate gilt decorations by Sotheran' s, London. BOOKS FROM THE CHARTWELL LmRARY • Andrew Crichton. The Life and Diary of LleuL CoL J. Blackader . .•. Edinburgh: H. S. Baynes, 1824. • Somerset de Chair, ed. Napoleon's Memoirs. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. • Louis Bobe. De Kongellge Danske Rldderordener og MedalUer, Copenhagen: Arthur Jensens Forlag, 1950. 2 volumes, a presentation copy from Frederick IX, King of Denmark, to Winston Churchill. • Helmut Gemsheim. Lewis Carrol Photographer. London: Max Parrish & Co. Limited, 1950. PORTRAITS & REALIA • An Inscribed Photograph o/ChurchllL Original silver print by Walter Stoneman, F.R.P.S., inscribed "To Lieut. Commander F.A. de Vine Hunt from Winston Churchill 1946. u • Henry Macbeth Raeburn, 1860-1947. Winston Churchill, ca. 1940. Mezzotint. • Winston S. Churchill, The Garden at Wilton. Original Oil on canvas, ca. 1935. Coombs catalog raisone C 366. • Bust of Churchill by Oscar Nemon. Stone resin, n.d. • A Victorian Silver Pillbox Owned by Churchill. Sterling silver pillbox enF,aved "W.S.C." on its cover, and "From V. 30 November 1955." on inside cover. This brochure. produced to accompany an exhibit for the Churchill Society's Charleston Conference. March 20J J. was edited by Patrick Scott based on the 2009 exhibit by Jeffrey Makala. ABOUT THE IRVIN DEPARTMENT The Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections is housed in the 50,000 square-foot Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, entered through the main University Library building, in the center of the Columbia campus. The department preserves and makes available for research use over 150,000 rare or special volumes, from all disciplines and historic periods. The core of the collections dates back to the books acquired for the library of the antebellum South Carolina College. The collections have grown tenfold in the past twenty-five years, adding a number of research collections of recognized international importance. The department also undertakes extensive educational and outreach activity, through classes, public programs, exhlbition~ on and off campus, pUblications, and digitization. Further information about the collections and programs is available at http://www.sc.eduilibrary/spcoIUrarebook.html Boun: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (except major holidays). Contact: (803)-777-3847, or by email at [email protected] Mailing address: Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina, 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208. .