THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1918
-First English Abridged One-Volume Edition Variant Binding in Dust Jacket-
1937
First English Abridged Edition (Third Impression)
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A69.6.c) (Woods A31ba.2)
8vo (832 pages, illustrated with maps and plans.)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Green cloth]
Item Number: 214201
$2,000.00
Collector's Guide
The World Crisis is Churchill’s highly subjective history of the First World War. Comprising five volumes (in six books) written over eight years, the initial titles were first published in the U.S. (by a matter of days), making the American edition the true first edition. Volume I (1911-1914) and Volume II (1915) were published in 1923. Volume III (1916-1918 ) was published in two parts in 1927 (hence the five/in six volumes ultimate format). Volume IV (The Aftermath 1918-1928) was published in 1929; and Volume V (The Unknown War/The Eastern Front) in 1931. A one-volume abridgment by the author was soon issued. Most subsequent re-issues have been incomplete, abridged, or otherwise condensed versions of the original text.
Description
This is a very singular copy of the Third Impression of the First English Abridged edition, in a physically pristine but, as usual, unevenly faded dust jacket, that retains some of it’s pale lime-green cast on the front and rear faces, but is a brighter green on the jacket flaps.
The book is bound in a variant rich deep-green cloth of a very silken texture that is not documented in any bibliography. It is virtually mint, inside and out.
Rare and possibly unique thus.