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INDIA
-Rare First English Hardcover Edition in Dust Jacket-
1931
First English Edition (First Printing)
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A92.1.a) (Woods A38)
8vo (144 pages)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Orange cloth]
Item Number: 10333
Collector's Guide
India is a slender compendium of Churchill’s speeches about Gandhi and “Our Duty in India.” It was simultaneously published in especially handsome hardcover and softcover editions, both much prized today by collectors.
Description
This is an extraordinarily fine copy of the exceedingly rare hardcover first edition, in the even scarcer dust jacket. The jacket is lightly edge-chipped, with a short closed tear at the spine head and loss of less than one-half-inch at the tail, but it is otherwise remarkably bright and fresh on both front and rear panels, and only moderately faded along the spine. The book itself is pristine and appears unopened; the cloth a brilliant orange, the contents fine. As precious and rarely seen as any volume in the Churchill canon.