A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set Without Dust Jackets-
First English Edition Set (Volume II a Third Printing)
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 without Dust Jacket [Red cloth]
Item Number: 212310
$150.00
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
A very good First English edition set, without dust jackets. Volume II is the 1963 Third Printing. The books are all crisply bound, clean, bright, and virtually unfaded on the spines. Volumes I-III are all variably foxed on the prelims and fore-edges; Volume IV is unfoxed. Volumes II and III have the same tiny vintage bookseller plate on the front pastedown. Volume IV has an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The red topstains of all volumes have faded. The contents are fine.
An exceedingly nice reading set.