A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Signed Presentaton First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
First English Edition Set
Cassell and Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)
8vo (440 pages, 350 pages, 352 pages & 346 pages. Illustrated with maps and tables.)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Red cloth]
Item Number: 214185
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Collector's Guide
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples was Winston Churchill’s last great work; a sweeping, four-volume history of England, her colonies, and the language that Churchill so venerated and ennobled in his own writings. Published nearly twenty years after Churchill composed his first draft in the late-1930s, the books were released after the war simultaneously in Britain, the U.S., and Canada over a period of three years. The original English edition was handsomely printed, the American and Canadian editions less so. Subsequent re-issues and abridgments abound.
Description
This is an exceptional First English edition set in unclipped dust jackets, inscribed and signed in ink on the half-title of Volume I: “To Herbert Morrison, from Winston S. Churchill, June 1956.”
HERBERT STANLEY MORRISON (1888-1965) was Home Secretary in Churchill’s wartime coalition government as a Labour Party MP. He also organized Labour’s victorious 1945 election campaign that ended Churchill’s Prime Ministership. He was then appointed Leader of the House of Commons, acting as Clement Attlee’s deputy prime minister from 1945–1951.
The books are all in marvelous condition. The jackets are bright and fresh. The contents are fine and unfoxed, save for a few spots of foxing to the fore-edge of Volume I only. The topstains have faded variably but not inordinately.
A first-class signed set and a very significant association.