MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-First English Edition (Fourth Printing) -
1930
First English Edition (Fourth Printing)
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.1.f) (Woods A37a)
8vo (392 pages, with photo frontispiece, maps, plans, one folding map, 16 tipped-in illustrations)
Hardcover (without Dust Jacket) [Rough pink cloth]
Item Number: 211428
$500.00
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 gorgeous copy of the Fourth Printing of the First English edition, which was issued in the year of publication and is identical to the first edition.
Bound in smooth pink cloth this copy retains all of its original vivid pink luster on the front and rear faces, with the notoriously fade-prone spine only modestly faded and not worn or frayed. The binding is crisp and the contents fine. There is a light splattering of pink on the front free endpapers, else fine.
An excellent example of a non-first First.