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    By Winston S. Churchill
    London   Odhams Press Limited
    9" by 5.5" 32, [30]pp
    The first edition of Winston Churchill's charming essay on the joys of painting, with colour plates.
    By Winston S. Churchill

    1948 Painting as a Pastime

    London   Odhams Press Limited
    9" by 5.5" 32, [30]pp
    The first edition of Winston Churchill's charming essay on the joys of painting, with colour plates.
    £90.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 952Y22
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    First edition. 

    With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. 

    'Painting as a Pastime' sheds light on Winston Churchill's relationship with the medium, reflecting on the joys and pleasures it brings in solidarity. 

    The essay first appeared as two parts published in Strand Magazine in December 1921 and January 1922.

    Complete with a monochrome frontispiece photograph of Churchill painting, as well as eighteen reproductions of his works in full colour.

    Condition

    In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is edge worn and rubbed to the spine, with handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.

    Near Fine

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