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A Collection of Works by and About Winston S. Churchill
Winston S. Churchill; Ephesian [Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts]; Randolph S. Churchill; Violet Bonham Carter
1923-1965
Thornton Butterworth Ltd.; Mills & Boon; Cassell and Company; Macmillan & Co.; Eyre & Spottiswoode and Collins : London
9.5" by 6.5"; 9" by 6"
536; 272, 24; 335; viii, 313; 392; 496pp.
SUMMARY
A collection of six smart volumes written by Winston S. Churchill, with a commentary on his character from Violet Bonham Carter.
First Edition,Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 2 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Six volumes.
A collection of works written by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
This set contains:
The World Crisis 1911-1914, 1923.
First edition. Illustrated with six maps and two plates. Collated complete. The first of six volumes of this analytical and, in some parts, justification by Churchill of his role in the First World War.
Winston Churchill: Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1927.
First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. Written by Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, under the pen name Ephesian, a British author, barrister, and journalist.
Great Contemporaries, 1937.
Fourth impression. Illustrated with twenty-one plates. Collated complete. A collection of twenty-five short biographical essays about famous people.
Into Battle: Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 1941.
Eighth edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Compiled by his son, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill, an English journalist, writer and politician.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, 1942.
Later edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-seven images. Collated complete. An autobiography from Churchill's birth in 1874 to around 1902, ending with mention of his marriage in 1908.
Winston Churchill As I Knew Him, 1965.
First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen images across fourteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Helen Violet Bonham Carter, a British politician and diarist who was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Sir Winston Churchill's closest female friend, apart from his wife.
CONDITION
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the odd spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Rear hinge starting but firm to My Early Life. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
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leaving a compromised copy even after repair
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