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PAINTING AS A PASTIME
-First English Edition-
1949
First English Edition
Odhams Press [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A 242.1.c) (Woods A125a)
4to (32 pages of text, plus 18 color plates of paintings.)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Taupe cloth]
Item Number: 208978
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 very good copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn, particularly along the moderately faded spine, but is intact and quite bright on both faces. The book is in handsome condition; the cloth and gilt lettering are quite fresh, with some fading to the cloth of the spine. The contents are fine, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front pastedown.