Winston S. Churchill | The War Speeches. London: Cassell and Co., 1951-1952

Winston S. Churchill

The War Speeches. London: Cassell and Co., 1951-1952

3 volumes, 8vo. Original navy cloth, original jacket pictorially printed in gray and fuchsia, a hint of toning to jackets, minor creasing to lower jacket cover of Volume III near tail.

FIRST ENGLISH “DEFINITIVE EDITION” First English Edition

This edition collected the original seven individually published wartime volumes of Churchill’s war speeches. While "Definitive," the set is not entirely complete; a handful of speeches deemed to be of "reduced significance" were omitted. Churchill favored greatly the beautiful design of these books.

A HANDSOME SET

REFERENCE:

Cohen A263.1[I-III].a; Woods A136a