WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT
-First American Edition in a Third Impression Dust Jacket-
1938
First American Edition
G.P. Putnam’s Sons [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A107.2.a) (Woods A44b)
8vo (466 pages)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 210567
$1,000.00
Collector's Guide
Arms and the Covenant captures Churchill’s initial alarms against Hitler and the Nazis in forty-one prophetic pre-war speeches delivered from 1928-1938, edited by his son Randolph. Published in the U.S. under the title While England Slept, the book, according to FDR, sat on his White House nightstand in 1938.
Description
This is a very good copy of the First American edition, wrapped in an unclipped dust jacket that was produced for the Third Impression of this book in 1940, with excerpts from American reviews added to the front flap. Interestingly, front and rear flaps from the correct First Edition dust jacket are also laid-into the book.
The dust jacket is bright on the front face with a hint of scuffing and edge-chipping. It has faded just a bit along the spine, with some faint chipping at the head and tail. The book is faded along the spine as well. The contents are fine.