MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-First Keystone Library Edition (Second Printing)-
1937
First Keystone Library Edition (Second
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.3.b) (Woods A37a)
8vo (392 pages, with photo frontispiece, maps, plans, one folding map, 16 tipped-in illustrations)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Rough Pink cloth]
Item Number: 213610
$750.00
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 copy of the Second Printing of the First Edition in publisher Thornton Butterworth’s Keystone Library reprint series. The Keystone Library was Butterworth’s budget imprint; it reproduced First Edition-replica volumes at affordable prices.
The original, striking dust jacket, is here unclipped and just moderately age-darkened. The binding, which is virtually a duplicate of the First English Edition, is in beautiful condition, perhaps a touch faded, else fine. The contents are fine as well, with just some jacket toning to the front and rear free endpapers.
A lovely copy.