THE LAST LION: “Visions of Glory,” “Alone” & “Defender of the Realm”

-Signed First American Edition Set-

1983, 1988 & 2012

First American Edition Set

By: William Manchester & Paul Reid

Little Brown & Co. [Boston]

Biblio: (Za464a, b & c) (R375)

8vo (974 & 756 pages, illustrated)

Hardcover (with Dust Jackets) [Black cloth]

Item Number: 203488

$1,500.00

Description

A complete signed set of hardcover American editions of this monumental work, in unclipped dust jackets.

Volume 1 is a Fifth Printing of the First American edition. It is inscribed, dated and signed in ink on the title page: “For —- With warm regards, William Manchester, Boston, 27 X ‘95.”

Volume 2 is a First American edition. It is inscribed, dated and signed in ink on the title page: “For —- With best wishes, William Manchester, Boston, 27 X ‘95.”

Volume 3 is a First American edition. It is signed in ink on the title page: “Paul Reid.”

The dust jackets, the books and the contents are all virtually mint.