LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL -Signed Single-Volume First Edition in Fine Leather Binding-

First English One-Volume Edition. Winston Churchill's impassioned two-volume biography written in defense of his maligned father's posthumous reputation. It was subsequently issued in an unabridged one-volume edition. A bulwark of any Churchill collection. This leatherbound single-volume unabridged First English edition is signed in ink on the half-title: "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill - 26.June 1928."The book is in immaculate condition, bound in full deep-red morocco by Bayntun Riviere of Bath with Churchill's full signature in gilt on the front cover, the spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands and ornamented with Churchill rampant lion crests. The fore-edges are all gilded. The contents are fine, with marbled endpapers edged in gilt-ornamented leather. Laid-in is an original Randolph Churchill 20-page speech pamphlet, titled: "Speeches of Lord Randolph CHurchill, M.P. at Hull on October 31 and November 1, 1881, Upon The Policy of Mr. Gladstone and Free Trade." Hardcover (without Dust Jacket) 8vo (907 pages, five illustrations, two in color) (Cohen A17.4) (Woods A8b). …