Description
This is a very good First American edition set of the four postwar speech volumes, as published in the U.S., here in the rare original dust jackets.
THE SINEWS OF PEACE and STEMMING THE TIDE jackets are price-clipped; EUROPE UNITE and IN THE BALANCE jackets are unclipped. All four jackets are very modestly edge-chipped, with fractional losses at the spine heads. While bright and unfaded on the front and rear jacket faces, the spine of IN THE BALANCE is significantly sun-faded. The cloth on EUROPE UNITE has very faintly faded along the spine as well. The contents are fine, with a handsome former-owner’s bookplate on each front pastedown.
A lovely set overall.
THE POSTWAR SPEECHES
-First American Edition Set with Dust Jackets Complete in Four Volumes-
1948-1953
First American Edition Set
By: Winston S. Churchill
Houghton Mifflin Company [Boston]
Biblio: (Cohen A241.2-A264.2) (Woods A124-A137)
8vo
Hardcover (with Dust Jackets) [cloth]
Item Number: 15385
$850.00
Collector's Guide
The Postwar Speeches of Winston Churchill were published beginning in 1948 with The Sinews of Peace, which collected late-1945-1946 speeches, including Churchill’s historic Fulton, Missouri “Iron Curtain” speech. This was followed by Europe Unite in 1950 (1947-1948 speeches), In the Balance in 1951 (1949-1950 speeches), Stemming the Tide in 1953 (1951-1952 speeches), and The Unwritten Alliance in 1961 (1953-1959 speeches). The Unwritten Alliance appeared in England only and is thus the rarest of the postwar speech volumes.
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Description
This is a very good First American edition set of the four postwar speech volumes, as published in the U.S., here in the rare original dust jackets.
THE SINEWS OF PEACE and STEMMING THE TIDE jackets are price-clipped; EUROPE UNITE and IN THE BALANCE jackets are unclipped. All four jackets are very modestly edge-chipped, with fractional losses at the spine heads. While bright and unfaded on the front and rear jacket faces, the spine of IN THE BALANCE is significantly sun-faded. The cloth on EUROPE UNITE has very faintly faded along the spine as well. The contents are fine, with a handsome former-owner’s bookplate on each front pastedown.
A lovely set overall.
