BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
The First Volume of Winston Churchill's War Speeches
1941
Second Canadian Edition
McClelland & Stewart Ltd. [Toronto]
Biblio: Cohen A 142.2) (Woods A66b)
16mo (528 pages, photo frontis, 55 speeches)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Maroon cloth]
Item Number: 213565
$385.00
Collector's Guide
Into Battle is the first volume of Winston Churchill’s collected World War II speeches (covering May 1938-November 9, 1940). Here are many of Churchill’s most notable oratorical flourishes of the war, including “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” “their finest hour,” and “never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill’s speeches were collected and published yearly throughout the war beginning with this one in 1941. Into Battle was published in the U.S. and Canada under the title: Blood, Sweat and Tears. The U.S. (and Book-of-the-Month-Club) editions added four speeches that do not appear in the English edition, those of December 19 and 23, 1940 and January 9 and February 9, 1941.
Description
A virtually mint copy of the Second Canadian edition in an unclipped dust jacket that has darkened a touch with age but retains excellent, bright color. There is faint edge-chipping along the upper edges, else fine. The contents are fine and unfoxed. This Second Edition added three speeches not included in the First Printing, those delivered December 19 and 23, 1940 and February 9, 1941.