[MILITARY] CHURCHILL, Winston.
The War Speeches of The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, P.C.
The War Speeches of The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, P.C.
Into Battle, 1941; The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942; The End of the Beginning, 1943; Onwards to Victory, 1944; The Dawn of Liberation, 1945; Victory, 1946; Secret Session Speeches, 1946.
Stock Code 120168
London, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941-46.
First editions; 7 vols, large 8vo (215 x 145 mm); the first six titles with photographic frontispiece of Churchill and all but the first with additional photographic illustrations, some light spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves of vol. III, small Ex Libris stamp to title-page & p. 101 & 201 of vol. IV, not affecting text, otherwise save for the odd very minor spot, internally near-fine; publisher's blue cloth, mildly rubbed and bumped at extremities, all with original printed dust-jackets, a little rubbed, some with minor chips and creases to extremities, some dust-soiling, more evident to some rear panels, ink ownership to either of the upper blank endpapers of vols II, III, IV & V, ink date of acquisition to same in vol. vi, closed tears to jacket spine of vol. ii., two short closed to tears to upper edge of jackets to vol. VI & VII, spotting and dust-soiling to closed edges of text blocks but not encroaching onto the leaves, otherwise good to mostly very good.
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