THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
-First English "Times Book Club" Edition-
1932
First English "Times Book Club" Edition
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A95.1.?) (Woods A39a)
8vo (320 pages, illustrated with cartoon reproductions and a photo frontis)
Hardcover [Green cloth]
Item Number: 207602
$850.00
Collector's Guide
Thoughts and Adventures is a terrific anthology of Churchill essays and magazine articles from the 1920s and early 1930s on a wide variety of subjects, including, especially, his much-loved essay “Painting as a Pastime.” It was issued in the U.S. under the title Amid These Storms.
Description
This is a very good copy of the rarely-seen [London] “Times Book Club” edition, which was bound from early edition sheets but in a plainer binding of smooth dark green cloth. Miraculously, the Cohen bibliography overlooks this edition.
The cloth here is unusually fresh and bright, with a tiny chip at the spine head. The gilt spine type is just a bit dulled. The contents are fine and unfoxed. There is a “Times Book Club” sticker on the rear pastedown.
Truly scarce, especially in this condition.