Winston S. Churchill | The Gathering Storm. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1948

Winston S. Churchill

The Gathering Storm. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1948

8vo. Light toning to text. In original pictorially printed wrappers; some chipping and wear to wraps, some internal reinforcements. In burgundy cloth-faced solander box, leather spine gilt-lettered.

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF VOLUME I OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, SIGNED BY AND DATED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: “Winston S. Churchill, 1955.”

The first volume of Churchill’s Memoirs of the Second World War in the very fragile first French edition, representing the first of twelve small, jacketed, softcover volumes that comprised the complete French issue. It contains Churchill’s amended Foreword exonerating the French “poilu” for their wartime failures.

REFERENCE:

Cohen A240a; Woods 123