Lot 11
  • 11

Churchill, Sir Winston S.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • The World Crisis. Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931
  • PAPER
8vo (233 x 152mm.), 5 volumes in 6, first English edition, third state of volume 1 (with errata slip and missing quotation mark in footnote on p.472), second state of volume 4 (with errata slip tipped onto p.9), errata slip in volume 3, part 2, folding maps, original dark purplish blue cloth, dust-jackets, some minor offsetting, jacket of volume 3, part 1 torn at upper joint, a few other short tears and some slight wear and darkening to the jackets

Literature

Cohen A69.2(I).c, A69.2(II).a, A69.2(III-1).a, A69.2(III-2).a, A69.2(IV).b, A69.2(V).a; Woods A31(a)  

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A rare set in dust-jackets of Churchill's stupendous narrative of the First World War in Europe. Churchill had been prompted to write the book after having been constantly confronted, after the war, by critics questioning his role in the Gallipoli campaign. Thus he "set to work with astonishing speed and energy on a mammoth history... Dictated to secretaries as he strode up and down the room, it exhibited his passionate interest in war and his romantic conception of the 'true glory' of the troops who perished on the Somme. But he could not write of the bloodbaths on the western front without sombre reflections on the growing destructive power of modern warfare..." (Paul Addison, Oxford DNB).    

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