My Early Life a Roving Commission ( With Churchill Signed Presentation 1943 )

Language: English

Published by Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1930

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My Early Life a Roving Commission, London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, By the Rt Hon Winston S Churchill. 1930. DESCRIPTION: pagination: 392, size 215 x 136mm, with advert leaf before the frontispiece, frontispiece and 25 plates, plus one folding map and one map in text, bound by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey's in full green crushed morocco, sides with double gilt fillet borders with corner floral ornaments, spine floral gilt within gilt compartments and raised bands, date at foot of spine, wide inner gilt floral dentelles, matching green marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition with presentation inscription to front leaf 'To Herbert Morrison from Winston S Churchill 1943.' Condition: Minor signs of use only. A near fine copy. FURTHER COMMENTS Evidence from a Sotheby's sale of 1988 indicates that the copy of this book presented by Churchill to his Home Secretary - Herbert Stanley Morrison during the Second World War was in fact the 1942 printing rather than this first printing of 1930, suggesting that two copies have been combined in this rebound form, the genuine Winston Churchill presentation from 1943 added to the 1930 first printing then put into a fine binding. This kind of 'marriage' to produce an ideal copy was not unusual in the 1980's, although frowned upon today. Fortunately we have been able to identify the volume's likely history. Overall this remains to be a wonderful copy of one of Churchill's finest books with important if mixed provenance.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
My Early Life a Roving Commission ( With Churchill Signed Presentation 1943 )
Author
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston L. S.
Publisher
Thornton Butterworth Limited, London
Publication year
1930
Condition
Near fine
Signed
Inscribed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition

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Zantiques is a London based business in antiquarian books. We specialise in out of the ordinary books, prints and paper items including ephemera of special, signed or association interest especially items of notable rarity. Speciaist in the exceptional. We are based in Bourbon Hanby Arcade located just off the Kings Road in Chelsea.

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