AUTHOR: Rt Hon Winston S Churchill
PUBLISHER: Newnes, The Home Library Book Company
DATE: 1935
VOLUMES: 1,2,3 & 4 (Complete set)
This is the first illustrated edition of Churchill's history of the First World War, a full, four-volume set of the striking Home Library issue 1935.
This binding commands attention on the shelf, it is both elaborate and aesthetically impressive. Featuring silver, gold gilt, and blind stamped decoration on deeply textured red boards with beveled edges. The contents are bound with marbled endpapers, gilt top edges, and silk head and foot bands. Winston Churchill was in a special position to write the history of the First World War, which nearly cost him both his political and corporeal lives and in which he played such a critical, controversial, and varied role. First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 until 1915, after the Dardanelles disaster and the slaughter at Gallipoli, Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign. He spent political exile as a lieutenant colonel of a battalion in the trenches. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he would experience nearly two decades later leading up to the Second World War. Despite Churchill's political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered. Hence Churchill had more than just literary and financial compulsion to write his history.
CONDITION:
Books: Very Good
Dust Jacket: n/a
Pictures shown are of the actual books
BOARDS:
Bumping: An occasional light mark and minor scuff Vol 4 has some more obvious scuffs along the bottom front edge (see photos)
Fading: Very little, if any it's around edges
CORNERS:
Bumping: A little
SPINE:
Full and intact
Bumping: Very little, if any it's on the edges
Fading: A little, but uniform.
PAGES:
All present and firmly attached
Tanning: Light
Foxing: A little on the first few & last pages.
An occasional small spot inside.
INSCRIPTIONS:
A light pencil annotation found on the inside of Vol saying "4 Vols"
EX LIBRARY:
No
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