MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times
-First American Edition Set-
First American Edition Set
Charles Scribners Sons [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A97.4[I-VI].a (Woods A40b)
8vo (2,500+ pages, illustrated with portraits,maps, plans.)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Green cloth]
Item Number: 204235
$600.00
Collector's Guide
Marlborough is Winston Churchill’s majestic biography of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough; soldier, statesmen, hard-headed Churchillian ancestor. Initially published in England as a lush four-volume set and then as a somewhat less deluxe six-volume set in America, it was subsequently issued in an unabridged two-volume edition and a single-volume abridgment.
Description
This is a very good First American edition set, without dust jackets. Volumes I and II have ink gift inscriptions, dated “Christmas 1933” on the front free endpapers; Volumes III and IV have the same former-owner name in ink on the front free endpapers. The cloth of Volume VI is very faintly damp-stained; the spine type on Volume V has more significantly faded. The contents are otherwise fine.