Churchill, Sir Winston

first edition of the author’s first book, second state with errata leaf, frontispiece, six maps of which two are folding, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at the end (with later date "3/98"), black endpapers, map facing p.242 loose, slight foxing, minor staining and wear to binding

The sportsman and politician William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough (1855–1945), armorial bookplate and library ticket with shelf-mark of the family home Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire. Grenfell was the father of the war poet Julian Henry Francis Grenfell and his younger brother, Gerald William (b. 1890), known as Billy, who were both killed in action in 1915.

Cohen A1.1.a; Woods A1(a)

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