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An intensely important and intimate Churchillian presentation volume, a First English edition copy of the penultimate volume of his war speeches inscribed and signed in ink on the half-title: “To Jock, from Winston S. Churchill 1946,” (the year of publication).

Sir John Rupert Colville (1915-1987) was Churchill’s Principal Private Secretary during the war and after, right through Churchill’s second stint as Prime Minister. No one was closer to Churchill at work than John Colville, familiarly known as “Jock.”

The ornate bookplate of John Rupert Colville is affixed to the front pastedown. The virtually mint dust jacket has been added.

The resonance of Winston Churchill inscribing this book of speeches from the final year of the war and his final year as PM to the man who had worked beside him every step of the way is quite exceptional. “Victory” indeed.

VICTORY

Signed First English Edition Presented to John “Jock” Colville

1946

First English Edition

By: Winston S. Churchill

Cassell and Co. [London]

Biblio: (Cohen A223.1.a) (Woods A112aa)

8vo (338 pages, with frontispiece and five internal photographs)

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Light blue cloth]

Item Number: 211252

Collector's Guide

Victory was the sixth volume of Churchill’s collected World War II speeches (covering 18 January-16 August 1945). The last eight months of the war are here: Yalta, the United Nations, the death of Roosevelt, the German surrender, VE-Day, the Atomic bomb, the surrender of Japan and, finally, the General Election that throws Churchill out of office. Churchill’s speeches were collected and published yearly throughout the war in both the U.K. and the U.S.

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The ornate bookplate of John Rupert Colville is affixed to the front pastedown. The virtually mint dust jacket has been added.