A ROVING COMMISSION
-Second American Edition (Second Printing) in Dust Jacket-
1940
Second American Edition (Second Printing)
Charles Scribners Sons [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.5.b) (Woods A37c)
8vo
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Midnight-blue cloth]
Item Number: 200739
$165.00
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 Second Printing copy of the wartime Second American Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket that is very lightly rubbed along the spine but is otherwise bright and crisp with excellent color. The cloth is roughed and shelfworn. The contents are fine.
Produced from the First American edition plates, with a new Introduction by the legendary American journalist Dorothy Thompson.