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The New World

by Winston S. Churchill

Catalogued August 31, 2026

The Work

First published
1956
Original publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company

Drew's Copy

Edition
Bantam paperback edition
Printing
Eighth Bantam printing, undated
Publisher
Bantam Books
Published in
New York
Copy published
Undated
Binding
Mass-market paperback
Collection status
On the shelves
Reading status
Unread
Condition
Inherited family copy with cover rubbing, creasing, edge wear, soiling, and age-toned pages
English-Speaking PeoplesBritish HistoryEarly Modern HistoryTudor EnglandStuart EnglandColonial AmericaHistory

Acquisition & Provenance

Acquisition type
Inherited family book
Context
From Drew's grandad's library
Previous owner
Drew's grandad
Provenance
This copy previously belonged to Drew’s grandad.

How This Copy Came to the Library

Grandad’s library.

About This Copy

This is Volume II of Winston S. Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. The copyright page identifies the Bantam edition as first published in August 1963 and lists this copy as the eighth Bantam printing without a printing date. The cover identifies it as book R7082, complete and unabridged, with a price of $1.45.

Memories & Connections

Grandad’s library.

The second volume of Winston S. Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples covers England and America from 1485 to 1688, including the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, the expansion of English power, colonization of the Americas, religious conflict, civil war, and restoration.

Drew's Copy
Front cover of Drew's copy of The New World
The front cover of Drew's inherited Bantam edition of The New World.
Back cover of Drew's copy of The New World
The worn back cover describes Churchill's history of England and America from 1485 to 1688.
Title page of Drew's copy of The New World
The title page identifies The New World as Volume Two of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Copyright page of Drew's copy of The New World
The printing-history page records the 1956 Dodd, Mead edition, the Bantam edition first published in August 1963, and this undated eighth Bantam printing.