Churchill, Winston SMareMagnum
CHURCHILL Winston S.MareMagnum
Into Battle [with] The Unrelenting Struggle [with] The End of the Beginning [with] Onwards to Victory [with] The Dawn of Liberation [with] Victory [with] Secret Session Speeches. [The War Speeches complete.]. [Mixed Editions.] THE WAR SPEECHES COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
7 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with portrait frontispieces and numerous plates, tops and fore-edges lightly spotted, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped), some wrappers chipped at heads and tails of backstrips. The set comprises: Into Battle (reprint); The Unrelenting Struggle (reprint); The End of the Beginning (reprint); Onwards to Victory (fkirst edition); The Dawn of Liberation (first edition); Victory (first edition); Secret Session Speeches (first edition). Randolph Churchill edited the first volume, Charles Eade the subsequent six volumes. Although published as a series and uniform in size, complete sets are seldom offered for sale (especially in dustwrappers as here). Woods A66a, A89, A94, A101, A107, A111, A114 respectively (recording the first editions).
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB504,98 €
