The War Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

Published by London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1941-46

About this Item

First editions, signed by the author on the front free endpaper of Secret Session Speeches. This is the full set of the wartime speeches, published in stages while the war was still ongoing, together with the concluding post-war volume which contained five of Churchill's secret parliamentary speeches that had been embargoed during the conflict. Cohen A142.1.a; 172.1.a, 183.1.a, 194.1.a, A214.1a; 223.1.b (second state, no priority); A227.2.b (presentation binding cloth). 7 vols, octavo. Frontispieces in first 5 vols along with other photographs. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With first-issue dust jackets. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper of The Dawn of Liberation. Slight markings to cloth and rubbing at extremities, spotting to edges; unclipped jackets with minor spotting, rubbing, and edgewear, Secret Session Speeches jacket with minor tear at foot neatly taped on verso: very good copies in very good jackets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The War Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.
• Publisher: London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1941-46
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)