LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
-Signed Single-Volume First Edition in Fine Leather Binding-
1907
First English One-Volume Edition
Macmillan & Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A17.4) (Woods A8b)
8vo (907 pages, five illustrations, two in color)
Hardcover (without Dust Jacket) [Deep Red leather]
Item Number: 214174
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Collector's Guide
Lord Randolph Churchill was Winston Churchill’s first work of biography and an impassioned two-volume defense of his maligned father’s posthumous reputation. It was subsequently issued in an unabridged one-volume edition and is a bulwark of any Churchill collection.
Description
This leatherbound single-volume unabridged First English edition is signed in ink on the half-title: “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill – 26.June 1928.”
The book is in immaculate condition, bound in full deep-red morocco by Bayntun Riviere of Bath with Churchill’s full signature in gilt on the front cover, the spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands and ornamented with Churchill rampant lion crests. The fore-edges are all gilded. The contents are fine, with marbled endpapers edged in gilt-ornamented leather.
Laid-in is an original Randolph Churchill 20-page speech pamphlet, titled: “Speeches of Lord Randolph CHurchill, M.P. at Hull on October 31 and November 1, 1881, Upon The Policy of Mr. Gladstone and Free Trade.”