Marlborough. His Life and Times
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[Two-Volume Edition].
FIRST TWO-VOLUME EDITION IN MOROCCO
Published: Harrap, [1947]
Stock code: 46335
Price: £440.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, 14 facsimiles and 196 maps and plans (a number double-page) in the text; strongly bound in sand boards, blue crushed morocco backs, backs with raised bands, second and third compartments framed in blind and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt and blind, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, boards mildly age-marked, backstrips unevenly sunned to green else a very good, bright, clean copy.
This first two-volume edition is an entirely new setting (not merely a rearrangement) of the original four-volume edition of 1933-34. It is unabridged and retains all the maps and plans of the first edition, but the illustrations are reduced to the two frontispieces. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Woods A40(d); ICS A40(d).