Into Battle [with] The Unrelenting Struggle [with] The End of the Beginning [with] Onwards to Victory [with] The Dawn of Liberation [with] Victory [with] Secret Session Speeches. [The War Speeches complete.]. [Mixed Editions.] THE WAR SPEECHES COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
by CHURCHILL Winston S
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About This Item
Cassell,, [1941-46]. 7 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with portrait frontispieces and numerous plates, tops and fore-edges lightly spotted, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped), some wrappers chipped at heads and tails of backstrips. The set comprises: Into Battle (reprint); The Unrelenting Struggle (reprint); The End of the Beginning (reprint); Onwards to Victory (fkirst edition); The Dawn of Liberation (first edition); Victory (first edition); Secret Session Speeches (first edition). Randolph Churchill edited the first volume, Charles Eade the subsequent six volumes. Although published as a series and uniform in size, complete sets are seldom offered for sale (especially in dustwrappers as here). Woods A66a, A89, A94, A101, A107, A111, A114 respectively (recording the first editions).
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13566
- Title
- Into Battle [with] The Unrelenting Struggle [with] The End of the Beginning [with] Onwards to Victory [with] The Dawn of Liberation [with] Victory [with] Secret Session Speeches. [The War Speeches complete.]. [Mixed Editions.] THE WAR SPEECHES COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
- Author
- CHURCHILL Winston S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell,
- Date Published
- [1941-46]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, churchill, winston churchill, churchilliana, military, ww2, wwii, war speeches
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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