THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
-First Keystone Library Edition in Dust Jacket-
1933
First Keystone Library Edition (Second Binding State)
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen 95.3.b) (Woods A39ab)
8vo (320 pages, illustrated, including frontis photo )
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Greyish-Green cloth]
Item Number: 212259
$850.00
Collector's Guide
Thoughts and Adventures is a terrific anthology of Churchill essays and magazine articles from the 1920s and early 1930s on a wide variety of subjects, including, especially, his much-loved essay “Painting as a Pastime.” It was issued in the U.S. under the title Amid These Storms.
Description
A virtually mint copy of the second binding state of the First Keystone Library edition (per bilbliographer Ronald Cohen) in the rare dust jacket, which is nearly mint, dimmed ever so faintly along the spine and jacket edges only, else fine. The book is as-new, save for two very faint scratches across the front face. The contents are fine.
Truly rare thus.
The Keystone Library was publisher Thornton Butterworth’s budget imprint that reproduced First Edition-quality books at affordable prices shortly following publication. According to the Cohen bibliography, there were three binding states of the First Keystone Library edition. This second state is bound in dark yellowish-green cloth with the front cover lettering blind-stamped, rather than gilt-stamped.