Description
This is a very good copy of the First English edition, debossed with the publisher’s “PRESENTATION COPY” blindstamp on the title page. Most significantly, young Churchill’s author photograph from the extravagantly rare original dust jacket is tipped-onto the rear pastedown. Few copies of the dust jacket are known to exist.
The spine has faded significantly but the covers remain bright, with some uneven fading along the upper front face. The front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns are toned and there is an elaborate vintage armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents are fine with light, scattered foxing to the prelims and fore-edges.
A charismatic and utterly singular copy.
LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
-First English Edition Presentation Copy-
1909
First English Edition [1 of 3,537 copies]
By: Winston S. Churchill
Hodder & Stoughton [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a)
8vo (438 pages)
Hardcover [Deep red cloth]
Item Number: 206434
$2,000.00
Collector's Guide
Liberalism and the Social Problem was Winston Churchill’s first widely-published hardcover collection of political speeches, an expression of “radical” liberal views that were quite advanced for his time, prefiguring the modern social safety net that Churchill and David Lloyd George would soon set in motion. Though the burgundy clothbound English edition was handsomely produced, with Churchill’s signature in gilt across the front board, the American edition, similarly bound but without the gilt signature, is rarer. However, it is increasingly scarce in either edition.
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Description
This is a very good copy of the First English edition, debossed with the publisher’s “PRESENTATION COPY” blindstamp on the title page. Most significantly, young Churchill’s author photograph from the extravagantly rare original dust jacket is tipped-onto the rear pastedown. Few copies of the dust jacket are known to exist.
The spine has faded significantly but the covers remain bright, with some uneven fading along the upper front face. The front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns are toned and there is an elaborate vintage armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents are fine with light, scattered foxing to the prelims and fore-edges.
A charismatic and utterly singular copy.
