Into Battle [with] The Unrelenting Struggle [with] The End of the Beginning [with] Onwards to Victory [with] The Dawn of Liberation [with] Victory [with] Secret Session Speeches. [The War Speeches complete.]
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[First Editions, save first volume.]
THE WAR SPEECHES COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Cassell, [1942-46]
Stock code: 49813
Price: £920.00
7 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save first volume), with portrait frontispieces and numerous plates, tops and fore-edges mildly spotted, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of two volumes; blue cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, two or three wrappers chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
The set comprises: Into Battle (eleventh impression, 1945); The Unrelenting Struggle (first edition); The End of the Beginning (first edition); Onwards to Victory (first edition); The Dawn of Liberation (first edition); Victory (first edition); Secret Session Speeches (first edition). Randolph Churchill edited the first volume, Charles Eade the subsequent six volumes. Although published as a series and uniform in size, complete sets are seldom offered for sale (especially in dustwrappers as here). Woods A66a, A89, A94, A101, A107, A111, A114 respectively (recording the first editions).