1974 The World in Crisis; War Speeches
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Description
First Edition, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
Eight volumes only of a very scarce twenty-five volume set.
Present here are two complete works within the larger set: 'The World Crisis' and 'War Speeches'.
Each volume is illustrated with a tipped in photographic frontispiece.
Published to commemorate one-hundred years since Churchill's birth, present here are 'The World Crisis' in five volumes, being Churchill's study of the First World War, and 'War Speeches', complete in three volumes.
Seven maps and facsimiles to Crisis vol I; nine to volume II; ten to volume III; seven to volume IV, and four to volume V.
Collated, complete.
Designed and produced by Edito-Service S. A., Geneva for Diners Club in Association with Fine Art International Limited.
With the loosely inserted label of Steve Forbes.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (Steve Forbes) is one of the world's foremost Churchill collectors, and is the third-generation chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine. Like Churchill, his life included both politics and publishing; he ran for US President in 1996 and 2000.
Condition
In the publisher's original leatherette bindings, with gilt detailing, and silk endpapers. Rubbing to front board of Speeches volume II, otherwise externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Fine
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