My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

Winston S. Churchill's My Early Life, Thoughts and Adventures, Great Contemporaries, and Step by Step; Inscribed by Churchill

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1936-1939.

$15,000.00

In Stock Item Number: RRB-150502

Custom Clamshell Box (+$450)

* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete

Add to cart

Ask a Question Shipping & Guarantee

First Odhams press edition of four of Churchill's best-known works. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in My Early Life, "To E.T. Vassallo from Winston S. Churchill, 1948. " With a typed letter signed by Nina Edith Sturdee, Churchill's private secretary, to the book's recipient, stating that Churchill was sending it "as a mark of appreciation for all the care and attention you showed to him and his party on the flights to and from Marrakech...", one page, 8vo, 28 Hyde Park Gate [Churchill's London residence] , 7 February 1948. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets and housed in the original cardboard box. Rare.

Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name 'Winston S. Churchill'. After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence, and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War. Churchill's fictional output included one novel and a short story, but his main output comprised non-fiction. After he was elected as an MP, over 130 of his speeches or parliamentary answers were also published in pamphlets or booklets; many were subsequently published in collected editions. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".