Winston S. Churchill, 2 titles: 'Marlborough. His Life and T...

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£75

Winston S. Churchill, 2 titles: 'Marlborough. His Life and Times.', London, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1934-1938, 4 volumes, volume 1 November 1934, new edition, revised, volumes 2-4 1934-1938, 1st editions, 1st impressions, portrait frontispiece to each volume, 99 additional plates, 14 facsimiles of letters, and 182 maps and plans, several folding, collated complete/as called for, uniform original purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Marlborough crest gilt to front covers, top edges gilt, in the "Limited Presentation Edition" dust wrappers (worn, some small part losses/tape repairs). Churchill's biography of the first Duke of Marlborough, his ancestor who led British forces to victory against Louis XIV, "took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor's leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the domination of the continent by a single power, it was also a source of inspiration to Churchill in his campaign against appeasement" (ODNB). Cohen A97.2(I-IV).a; Langworth pp. 166-8; Woods A40(a); together with 'Lord Randolph Churchill', London & New York, Macmillan, 1906, 1st edition, 2 volumes, frontispiece portraits to each volume + 16 plates, collated complete/as called for, ex Wolverhampton Girls' School Library, inkstamps verso of title pages and to half title of volume 2, else no other lib markings to leaves/leaves clean/VGC, original red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, lib markings removed from spines, ruling continued to boards in blind, front covers lettered in gilt with the Churchill family crest stamped in gilt, edges untrimmed. Churchill's great biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill (6)