CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company , 1956-1958.
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"It is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in": Finely Bound First Edition Set of Winston Churchill’s Classic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
First British editions of each of the four volumes of this set of Churchill’s classic history. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in. In fine condition.
"Churchill’s last great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously in Britain, the USA and Canada— a first for Churchill’s works" (Langworth, 312).
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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