GILBERT MartinMareMagnum
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Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the Popular Edition with pictorial dustwrapper.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt backs, red tops, both near fine copies in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Companion Part 1: 1874-1896; Companion Part 2: 1896-1900.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the Popular Edition with pictorial dustwrapper.
8 Main Volumes plus 13 Companion Volumes, together 21 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with titles in red and black, maps and geneaological tables; original cloth, gilt backs, red tops where called for, two or three wrappers with light chafing at edges, a few Companion volumes mildly sunned at backstrips, one Companion volume neatly recased else a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The Main Volumes comprise: Vol I: Youth 1874-1900; Vol. II: Young Statesman 1901-1914; Vol. III: 1914-1916; Vol. IV: 1917-1922; Vol. V: 1922-1939; Vol. VI: Finest Hour 1939-1941; Vol. VII: Road to Victory 1941-1945; Vol. VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965. The Companion Volumes comprise Volume I Part 1: 1874-1896; Volume I Part 2: 1896-1900; Volume II Part 1: 1901-1907; Volume II Part 2: 1907-1911; Volume II Part 3: 1911-1914; Volume III Part 1: August 1914-April 1915; Volume III Part 2: May 1915-December 1916; Volume IV Part 1: January 1917-June 1919; Volume IV Part 2: July 1919-March 1921; Volume IV Part 3: April 1921-November 1922; Volume V Part 1: The Exchequer Years 1922-1929; Volume V Part 2: The Wilderness Years 1929-1935; Volume V Part 3: The Coming of War 1936-1939. The dustwrappers of all Main Volumes are the preferred solid colour format. A BRIGHT, NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPER.
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 7 portrait frontispieces, titles in red and black, very numerous plates, and many maps and genealogical tables (a number folding); red cloth, gilt backs, red tops (a few tops unevenly faded as usual), a remarkably bright, crisp, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper (wrapper of first volume chipped at headband). ALL WRAPPERS ARE THE PREFERRED SOLID COLOUR ISSUES OF THE UNIFORM EDITION. The set comprises: Vol. I: Youth 1874-1900 (1966); Vol. II: Young Statesman 1901-1914 (1967); Vol. III: 1914-1916 (1971); Vol. IV: 1917-1922 (1975); Vol. V: 1922-1939 (1976); Vol. VI: Finest Hour 1939-1941 (1983); Vol. VII: Road to Victory 1941-1945 (1986); Vol. VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965 (1988). Arguably the most important official biography of the twentieth century. The first two volumes were compiled by Winston's son Randolph; following his death in 1968 the torch passed to (later Sir) Martin Gilbert who passed the majority of his career completing the mammoth task.
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and patterned endpapers; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression thus, with full-page map; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
