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Odhams Press, 1951. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. boards are worn, chipped and a bit knocked. foxing and markings. ownership inscriptions and sticker. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Odhams, 1951. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). [1951]. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Odhams Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1951. 'New' Edition. Hardback. Red cloth boards a touch age-toned, marked on both boards, rubbed at edges, bumped on corners, gilt lettering tarnished; Pages age-toned, edges minutely spotted, spotting on endpapers, previous owner's dedication on ffep, no annotation; Binding loosening but still intact. ; 5.75 x 8.5"; 840 pages .

Macmillan & Co, January 1906. Hardcover. Used - Good. Spine worn at top and bottom from handling. Pages yellowing with age. Shelf wear along bottom edge of pages. Spine semi tight.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: MacMillan, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo,.. red cloth, gilt spine, 908 pages, illustrated, frontis. (with tissue guard), one full page color plate, 3 facsimiles (one in color), t.e.g., WOODS A8(b) records 3000 copies printed, some spots and edge wear to covers, sound copy Size: 8 Vo.,.

London: Odhams Press. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [1951]. New Edition. Hardcover. No date (Introduction to "New Edition" dated 1951) . Red cloth covers with gilt lettering and rule on spine. 840 pages + frontis + 8 plates. Corner bumped on front board. Owner's rubber stamp on front endpaper. Cloth rubbed at tail edge of boards. 3" tear in rear panel of dustjacket. 1/2" chips at head and tail of dustjacket spine. Sellotape repairs to 3" tear at tail of dustjacket spine and 2" tear at head of dustjacket spine. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. From dustjacket: "New Edition entirely reset and including previously unpublished correspondence and a new preface by the author". Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 8vo .

London: Macmillan, 1907. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is the second edition, published the year after the first, complete and unabridged in one volume. Original burgundy cloth hard covers, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and blind rules to sides. Moderate handling and shelf-wear to covers. Edges and endpapers toned; old owner's blind-stamp to bottom of title-page. Slight foxing to frontispiece and tissue-guard. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. All plates present as listed. Index included. xxii,907pp..

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. Pp. xxii+908(last blank), frontispiece portrait, tissue guard (browned), 1 coloured plate, 3 facsimiles (1 tipped-in facsimile letter, 1 folding), appendices, index; demy 8vo; maroon boards, lettered and ruled in gilt and blind, lightly rubbed and marked; t.e.g.; endpapers browned and foxed, some light foxing, mainly to edges, 1.5 cm. closed tear from bottom edge into margin of first leaf of text and a 4.5 cm. closed tear from fore-edge into text of another leaf, small crease in top edge of a few leaves, production foldover to lower fore-corner of a couple of leaves; Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1907. First one-volume unabridged edition. Cohen A17.4. *A biography of the author's father.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1906. First. Very Good. Lord Randolph Churchill was a two-part biography written by Winston Churchill of his father, a prominent Victorian politician It was first published in 1906 It received much critical acclaim However, filial devotion caused him to soften some of his father's less attractive aspects Theodore Roosevelt, who had known Lord Randolph, reviewed the book as "a clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar life of that clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar egotist" Some historians suggest Churchill used the book in part to vindicate his own career and in particular to justify crossing the floor 2 vols xvi, [2], 564; viii, [2], 531 pp Illustrated with photogravure portraits, facsimiles, etc 23x155 cm (9x6"), bound in red cloth lettered in gilt, gilt armorial shield on front covers Spines faded with a few marks and a touch of fraying, some light soiling to covers; front hinge of Volume 2 cracked but bindings sound, occasional foxing, most pages uncut,… Read More

London: MacMillan and Co., 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8 Vo.,. 2 vols, deep red , gilt dec.cloth, gilt spines, pp., 564, 531,index, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontis in both vols., 18 illustrations, some in color, edges untrimmed, Marlborough coat of arms on front covers, scattered foxing to both vols., spines lightly faded, WOODS A8(a).

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, Macmillan, 1906, first edition, 2 volumes, one inner hinge tender, some light staining to sections of the spine of volume one, else just about a vg set.

London: MacMillan and Co., 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 2 vols, deep red , gilt dec.cloth, gilt spines, pp., 564, 531,index, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontis in both vols., 18 illustrations, some in color, edges untrimmed, Marlborough coat of arms on front covers, scattered foxing to both vols., spines lightly faded, WOODS A8(a) Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First American. Hardcover. Very Good. plates. Thick 8vos, red cloth, unopened, untrimmed fore-edges, teg, edgeworn; ex libris Donald William Cole, of Dallas - with two quite different bookplates. The future prime minister's account of his father. Precedes the one-volume edition. Plates.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. In two volumes. Pp. xviii+564+x+532(last blank), 16 plates (2 coloured, some with tissue guards), one folding facsimile, tipped-in facsimile letter from Queen Victoria, appendices, index; tall demy 8vo; dark red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with blind ruled borders, the boards slightly scuffed, edges rubbed and bruised, upper board of Volume I lightly soiled and with several small damp stains, spines lightly faded, with a couple of short splits to extremities; uncut; free endpapers slightly offset, hinges cracking, Times Book Club sticker at foot of lower pastedowns, a couple of small edge chips or splits, scattered foxing and occasional faint soiling; Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1906. First edition. Cohen A17.1; Woods A8(a). *Winston Churchill's biography of his father. From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on upper pastedowns above the earlier label of writer Joan Haslip (the author of several books, including… Read More

Macmillan,, 1906. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 2 portrait frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), 6 plates in photogravure and 10 cartoons (one coloured) and facsimiles (one folding), some mild spotting throughout; original armorial red cloth gilt, gilt backs, uncut, backstrips mildly sunned, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. Churchill's account of his father was his first biographical work. Woods A8(a).

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited,, 1906. First edition, first impression, of Churchill's biography of his father, the Conservative Party statesman Lord Randolph Churchill. This copy, in the Times Book Club binding, is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. Lord Randolph was a significant figure in British political life during the 1880s, serving as Chancellor, Leader of the Commons, and Secretary for India, until his resignation from the Cabinet in 1886 on a point of principle stalled his political career. Winston's relationship with his father was respectful rather than warm; however, "when Winston later reread his father's letters, he realized how much he had thought and cared for him... [and] was determined to vindicate his memory. In 1906 he published a two-volume biography of his father, which remains the most detailed written up to the end of the twentieth century. Winston believed that he owed everything to his father" (ODNB). This copy is an example of the first… Read More

New York: Macmillan & Co., 1906. First American Edition Set (Cohen A17.2) (Woods A8aa). Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (586 pages and 546 pages, illustrated, with tissue protected photo frontispieces.). This is a very good First American edition set. Generally regarded as aesthetically superior to the English edition, the red cloth here retains strong color, though the spines have very faintly darkened, with the Volume I spine just a bit concave and lightly fraying at the head and tail. The gilt titles and gilded top edges are bright. There is a neatly repaired front hinge break in Volume II. Both volumes have a date inked on their front free endpapers, the contents of both are otherwise fine, clean and unfoxed.