London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947
The first two-volume edition of Churchill's Marlborough, His Life and Times, Sir Winston's attempt to rehabilitate the image of his ancestor John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, a soldier and politician at the court of Queen Anne. It followed 'A long succession of the most famous writers of the English language [who] have exhausted their resources of reproach and insult upon his name' (p.17).
With bookplate and ownership inscription for John Basil Goulandris (1930-2016) of the famous Greek shipping family.
First two-volume edition; 8vo (22 x 15.5 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ownership inscription to front free endpaper recto of each vol., half titles, frontispiece portraits, richly illustrated with folding maps and facsimile letters; publisher's purple cloth, gilt arms to upper covers, gilt spine, top-edge stained purple; 1050, 1078pp.
With bookplate and ownership inscription for John Basil Goulandris (1930-2016) of the famous Greek shipping family.
First two-volume edition; 8vo (22 x 15.5 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ownership inscription to front free endpaper recto of each vol., half titles, frontispiece portraits, richly illustrated with folding maps and facsimile letters; publisher's purple cloth, gilt arms to upper covers, gilt spine, top-edge stained purple; 1050, 1078pp.
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