{"product_id":"winston-churchill-island-race-signed-123309","title":"The Island Race.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003esigned by Churchill on tipped-in note\u003c\/h4\u003eWinston Churchill's signature is on a tipped-in thank you card to the upper, secondary endpaper, sent from Downing Street, thanking the recipient for his or her 80th Birthday 'greetings', which was on 30 November, 1954. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe abridged single volume edition of the earlier four-volume work published in the 1950s under the title; History of the English-Speaking Peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition thus with a tipped-in Downing Street letter-head card printed; 'I thank you for your kind greetings on my eightieth birthday', then signed in ink by Churchill; 4to, (100 x 240 cm); colour plates and further black \u0026amp; white illustrations within the text, slight age-toning to text leaves, otherwise near-fine; original full crimson morocco for Asprey \u0026amp; Co. Ltd., gilt panelled with gilt botanical devices to spine panels representing Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, all edges gilt, a fine, very handsomely-bound copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"CHURCHILL, Winston.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57160998125943,"sku":"123309","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123309.jpg?v=1781298063","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/winston-churchill-island-race-signed-123309","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}