Hunt Frank Devine (4 results)

No Binding. Condition: VG+. 878-2. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Original colour printed map (91 x 117 cm) of the "historic wartime journeys undertaken by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill.in defence of the British Commonwelath and Empire. Folds into original card slipcase (22 x 15 cm) with pictorial front-cover". "Issued to World Book Members in April 1956" printed to back of case. Generally very good. The routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad are shown, noted the conferences he attended and Churchill's mode of transport. Colourful vignette portraits of the planes and ships Churchill used appear at the foot of the map and include HMS Duke of York, HMS Renown, HMT Queen Mary, and the airplanes "Commando" and "Berwick." Churchill's popular six-volume memoir The Second World War, originally published between 1948 and 1954, was reissued in a cheaper edition by the Reprint Society between 1950 and 1956 for its World Books book club. "Upon publication of the sixth and final volume of the Reprint Society edition in April 1956, the publisher issued World Books members a folded slipcased 'Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. in Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire' to commemorate the 'completion of the Reprint Society edition of the Churchill war memoirs'". (Cohen A240.6(VI).a).

Original colour printed map (91 x 117 cm) of the "historic wartime journeys undertaken by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill.in defence of the British Commonwelath and Empire. Folds into original card slipcase (22 x 15 cm) with pictorial front-cover". "Issued to World Book Members in April 1956" printed to back of case. Map case intact but no longer held together by adhesive, map itself with small split along upper centre fold, generally in excellent condition. The routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad are shown, noted the conferences he attended and Churchill's mode of transport. Colourful vignette portraits of the planes and ships Churchill used appear at the foot of the map and include HMS Duke of York, HMS Renown, HMT Queen Mary, and the airplanes "Commando" and "Berwick." Churchill's popular six-volume memoir The Second World War, originally published between 1948 and 1954, was reissued in a cheaper edition by the Reprint Society between 1950 and 1956 for its World Books book club. "Upon publication of the sixth and final volume of the Reprint Society edition in April 1956, the publisher issued World Books members a folded slipcased 'Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. in Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire' to commemorate the 'completion of the Reprint Society edition of the Churchill war memoirs'". (Cohen A240.6(VI).a).

Original colour printed map (91 x 117 cm) of the "historic wartime journeys undertaken by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill.in defence of the British Commonwelath and Empire. Folds into original card slipcase (22 x 15 cm) with pictorial front-cover". "Issued to World Book Members in April 1956" printed to back of case. Light wear to slipcase, map in excellent condition. The routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad are shown, noted the conferences he attended and Churchill's mode of transport. Colourful vignette portraits of the planes and ships Churchill used appear at the foot of the map and include HMS Duke of York, HMS Renown, HMT Queen Mary, and the airplanes "Commando" and "Berwick." Churchill's popular six-volume memoir The Second World War, originally published between 1948 and 1954, was reissued in a cheaper edition by the Reprint Society between 1950 and 1956 for its World Books book club. "Upon publication of the sixth and final volume of the Reprint Society edition in April 1956, the publisher issued World Books members a folded slipcased 'Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. in Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire' to commemorate the 'completion of the Reprint Society edition of the Churchill war memoirs'" (Cohen A240.6(VI).a).