1949-2015 A Collection of Works on Sir Winston Churchill
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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Twelve volumes. A collection on Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer who twice served Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This collection contains: Painting as a Pastime, 1949. Second impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen colour plates. Collated complete. Written and illustrated by Sir Winston Churchill. Mr. Churchill in 1940, 1964. First edition in this form. With a portrait frontispiece. Dated from the British Library. Written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Never Give In! The Challenging Words of Winston Churchill, 1967. Hallmark edition. Illustrated throughout. With an introductory essay by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States, who, during the Second World War, was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. Winston Churchill As I Knew Him, 1965. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty images across fourteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Violet Bonham Carter, a British politician and diarist who was Sir Winston Churchill's closest female friend, apart from his wife. Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival 1940-1965, 1966. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran, Charles McMoran Wilson, an English physician and the personal doctor to Winston Churchill from 1940 until the latter's death in 1965. Action This Day: Working with Churchill, 1968. Second impression. A collection of memoirs from Lord Normanbrook, John Colville, Sir John Martin, Sir Ian Jacob, Lord Bridges, and Sir Leslie Rowan. Edited with an introduction from Sir John Wheeler-Bennett. Churchill as Warlord, 1973. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. Written by George Ronald Lewin, a British officer, publishing editor, radio producer and military historian. Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939-1941, 1983. Second impression. Illustrated with forty-four images across twenty-four plates, and twenty-two maps. Collated complete. Written by Sir Martin John Gilbert, a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. The Last Lion - Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions of Glory 1874-1932, 1983. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-five images and eighteen maps. Collated complete. Written by William Manchester, an American author, biographer, and historian. Churchill: A Life, 1991. First edition. Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two images. Collated complete. Written by Sir Martin John Gilbert, a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Churchill: A Study in Greatness, 2001. First edition. Illustrated with seventeen images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best, an English historian known for his studies of warfare and works about Churchill. God and Churchill: How the Great leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours, 2015. First UK edition. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Written by Jonathan Sandys, an English historian and the great-grandson of Winston Churchill, and Wallace Henley, an American author and political historian.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original dust wrappers remain unclipped other than Never Give In!, Action This Day, and Finest Hour which have been price-clipped. Dust wrappers are also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spines with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper of the odd volume.
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