CHURCHILL, Winston S.
My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1930.
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“Churchill at His Dazzling Best": First Edition of Winston Churchill's My Early Life. A Roving Commission
First edition of Churchill's autobiographical writings on his younger years. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern navy morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with maps and portraits. In near fine condition.
My Early Life covers the first 25 years of Churchill's life, to the beginning of his parliamentary career. Included are accounts of his childhood; his active service in Cuba, the North West Frontier, and Omdurman; and his exploits during the Boer War, detailing his famous escape from the Boers as a prisoner of war. In this autobiography "Churchill records his experiences in words which will live as long as any 20th-century author is read… My Early Life was one of the two Churchill works excerpted by the Nobel Library - for Sir Winston's 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature was won not for his war memoirs but the totality of his work. This book presents Churchill at his dazzling best as chronicler and memoirist" (Langworth, 130).
My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
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