My Early Life. A Roving Commission. Keystone Library.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Published by London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1934
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First Keystone edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill July. 1936", noted in a different hand on the title page, "For Lady Moyra Cavendish", and likely specially bound for presentation. Cavendish (1876-1942) married Richard Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1895. She took up residence at the family's Holker Hall, where she is noted for redesigning the gardens, and took a prominent role in local institutions. The pair knew Churchill for decades, and correspondence from Moyra from 1903 to 1935 is preserved in the Churchill Archives. The duke served in Churchill's wartime government as a parliamentary under-secretary of state for India and Burma (1940-1942) and for the Colonies (1942-1945). My Early Life was first published in 1930. It was Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering his formative years from his birth in 1874 until his election as MP for Oldham in 1900. This edition reprinted the title as part of Thornton Butterworth's uniform Keystone series. Cohen A91.3a. Octavo (213 x 133 mm). Photographic frontispiece and 15 plates, of which 12 from photographs, folding map, 8 maps and 2 plans to the text. Contemporary red calf by Bumpus, spine lettered in gilt, compartments and covers ruled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Spine a little darkened and rubbed, contents a little toned. A very good copy. Seller Inventory # 175782
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Title: My Early Life. A Roving Commission. Keystone...
Publisher: London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1934
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Edition: 1st Edition
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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission -Keystone Library Edition (Second Printing/Variant Binding State)-
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Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Arguably, Winston Churchill's most entertaining book, a memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood -- in fact, the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. Published in the U.S. under the title, A ROVING COMMISSION. A virtually mint copy of the Second Printing of the First Edition in publisher Thornton Butterworth's Keystone Library reprint series. The Keystone Library was Butterworth's budget imprint; it reproduced First Edition-replica volumes at affordable prices. The original, striking dust jacket, is unclipped and just moderately age-darkened. The binding, which is virtually a duplicate of the First English Edition, is in beautiful condition; in fact it is as-new, in a variant smooth pink cloth unlike the rough pink cloth of the First Binding State, and unlike the type layout described by bibliographer Ronald Cohen for the Second Binding State. The contents are fine but with an unfortunate name scrawled in ink on the title page. Otherwise quite flawless. Keystone Library Edition (Second Printing/Variant Binding State). 8vo (392 pages, with photo frontispiece, maps, plans, one folding map, 16 tipped-in illustrations) (Cohen A91.3.b) (Woods A37a). Seller Inventory # 145829
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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission -Wartime Keystone Library Edition in Dust Jacket-
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Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Arguably, Winston Churchill's most entertaining book, a memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood -- in fact, the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. Published in the U.S. under the title, A ROVING COMMISSION. This is a virtually mint copy of the wartime Third Impression of the Keystone Library edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The Keystone Library was publisher Thornton Butterworth's budget imprint; it reproduced First Edition-quality books at affordable prices.Bound in striking purple cloth, this copy is almost shockingly pristine, as if just published, in an equally pristine dust jacket. Yet it is, in fact, over eighty years old. A perfectly fabulous volume. Keystone Library Edition (Third Impression). 8vo (392 pages, with photo frontispiece, maps, plans, one folding map, 16 tipped-in illustrations) (Cohen A91.3.c(Woods A37a). Seller Inventory # 141979
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MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission -First Keystone Library Edition (First Printing)-
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Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1934
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Keystone Library Edition (First Printing). Arguably, Winston Churchill's most entertaining book, a memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood -- in fact, the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. Published in the U.S. under the title, A ROVING COMMISSION. A virtually mint copy of the First Printing of the First Edition in publisher Thornton Butterworth's Keystone Library reprint series. The Keystone Library was Butterworth's budget imprint; it reproduced First Edition-replica volumes at affordable prices.The original, striking dust jacket, is here unclipped and somewhat tanned along the spine, else fine. The binding, which is virtually a duplicate of the First English Edition, is in mint condition, unfaded and fine. The contents are fine as well. 8vo (392 pages, with photo frontispiece, maps, plans, one folding map, 16 tipped-in illustrations) (Cohen A91.3.a) (Woods A37a). Seller Inventory # 145830