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THE WAR SPEECHES: “Definitive Edition”

-Signed First English Edition Presentation Set Inscribed to Churchill’s Private Secretary-

1951-1952

First English Edition Set

By: Winston S. Churchill

Cassell and Co. [London]

Biblio: (Cohen A263.1[I-III].a) (Woods A136a)

8vo (500 pages, 578 pages and 596 pages)

Hardcover (with Dust Jackets) [Navy blue cloth]

Item Number: 207426

Collector's Guide

The War Speeches (“Definitive Edition”) repackaged the texts of the original seven, individually-published, wartime volumes of Churchill’s war speeches as a very handsomely produced three-volume set.  While “Definitive,” this set was not entirely complete; a handful of speeches deemed to be of “reduced significance” were omitted. Churchill favored greatly the beautiful design of this edition.