The World Crisis 1911-1918
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[First Two-Volume Edition].
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: Odhams, [1939]
Stock code: 50115
Price: £170.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 6 facsimiles (2 double-page and 4 full-page), 39 maps, charts and diagrams (19 double-page and 20 full-page) and 12 smaller maps, charts and diagrams all in the text; original red pebble-grain cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt backs, red tops, a near fine copy.
First two-volume edition, containing the unabridged text of the original four volumes augmented with revisions from the 1931 re-issue. For this edition, Churchill prepared a new Foreword to Vol. I and an updated Appendix I in Vol. II. In order to achieve the compression, the publishers provided slightly fewer and smaller maps. VERY SCARCE IN THJIS CONDITION. See Woods, p.46; ICS A31f.