CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Thoughts and Adventures.
First Edition of Winston Churchill's Thoughts and Adventures; Finely bound
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932.
$1,150.00
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Item Number: RRB-127466
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First edition of the second volume of Churchill's autobiographical writings. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait of Churchill. In near fine condition.
A collection of Churchill's magazine and newspaper journalism written in the same lighter, informal style as My Early Life, the success of Thoughts and Adventures came as a considerable surprise to the publisher. Published on 10 November 1932 in a run of 4,000, three additional printings of 1,000 were required in the same month, two of them before publication, Butterworth writing to Churchill: "We are truly delighted at this success which confounds the Jonahs of the Bookselling trade To keep pace with the increasing demand, we had to get both printers and binders to work overtime. The sheets were delivered by passenger train, and the cases were made by the binders in advance" (Quoted in Cohen).
Thoughts and Adventures.
$1,150.00
Out of Stock
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