LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
-First English Edition Set-
1906
First English Edition Set
Macmillan & Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A17.1) (Woods A8a)
8vo (584 pages, and 544 pages, illustrated, with tissue protected photo frontispieces.)
Hardcover [Deep red cloth]
Item Number: 200602
$500.00
Collector's Guide
Lord Randolph Churchill was Winston Churchill’s first work of biography and an impassioned two-volume defense of his maligned father’s posthumous reputation. It was subsequently issued in an unabridged one-volume edition and is a bulwark of any Churchill collection.
Description
This is a good-very good First English edition set. The bindings are square but there are repaired hinge breaks front and rear in Volume I and at the rear in Volume II. The gilt lettering is quite bright and the cloth is still a strong unfaded red. There is a former-owner’s name in ink discreetly on the front free endpaper of both volumes. The contents are intact but lightly foxed throughout.