A ROVING COMMISSION: The Story of My Early Life
-Second American Edition (Third Printing Variant) in Dust Jacket-
1941
Second American Edition (Third Printing)
Charles Scribners Sons [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.5.c) (Woods A37c)
8vo (370 pages, illustrated)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Blue-Grey cloth]
Item Number: 206468
$225.00
Collector's Guide
My Early Life is the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. It is, arguably, his most entertaining book and an excellent entry point into his writing; a vivacious memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood. Published in the U.S. under the title A Roving Commission, the book has been endlessly re-issued in a variety of editions. True first editions, however, remain quite rare.
Description
This is a very good copy of the Third Printing of the wartime Second American Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket that is in very good condition, just a bit rubbed along the spine. The cloth is an apparent variant, conforming to the Cohen description of the Second Printing with purplish-blue unembossed calico textured cloth and no topstain but with the Third Printing pub date on the title page: 1941. The cloth is clean and bright; virtually mint. The endpapers are lightly toned, as per usual with this book. The contents are otherwise fine.
Produced from the First American edition plates, with a new Introduction by the legendary American journalist Dorothy Thompson.