PAINTING AS A PASTIME
-First English Edition-
1949
First English Edition
Odhams Press [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A 242.1.a) (Woods A125a)
4to (32 pages of text, plus 18 color plates of paintings.)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Taupe cloth]
Item Number: 211660
$500.00
Collector's Guide
Painting as a Pastime is Winston Churchill’s marvelous essay celebrating his favorite hobby. It first appeared in the Strand magazine over two issues in December 1921 and January 1922. It was then anthologized in Churchill’s 1932 book, Thoughts and Adventures, before being published on its own as this delightful little volume, which has since been endlessly re-issued in a variety of English and American editions.
Description
This is a virtually mint copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket that is flawless, save for a slight wrinkling at the spine head.
Very rare thus.