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This virtually mint First American edition set is in astonishing condition, as fresh as the day it was published, crisp and bright, particularly the fade-prone spines, which are here entirely unfaded. Each pristine volume is preserved intact in individual red half-leather cloth solanders lettered in gilt on the spines.
Volume I has a hint of jacket flap toning to the endpapers, else fine. Volume II dust jacket has very faint rubs from case-wear. Volume IV dust jacket is price-clipped and exhibits case-wear that has rubbed the front jacket hinge just a bit. Volume V dust jacket is also price-clipped and exhibits faint rubs from case-wear.
The books and solanders are otherwise mint in every respect.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
-Leather-Slipcased First American Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
1948-1953
First American Edition Set
By: Winston S. Churchill
Houghton Mifflin Company [Boston]
Biblio: (Cohen A240.3[I-VI]) (Woods A123aa)
8vo (Maps, diagrams and tables throughout.)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Red cloth]
Item Number: 210780
Collector's Guide
The Second World War, also known as Winston Churchill’s War Memoirs, won Churchill the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. Published in six volumes that appeared over six years, the books each came out first in the U.S. under the following titles: THE GATHERING STORM (Volume I/1948), THEIR FINEST HOUR (Volume II/1949), THE GRAND ALLIANCE (Volume III/1950), THE HINGE OF FATE (Volume IV/1950), CLOSING THE RING (Volume V/1951) and TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY (Volume VI/1953).
The ensuing English editions, issued within months of the American, contained numerous corrections and even a few additional maps. The English edition is therefore considered more definitive, though today the American edition may be rarer. The set was simultaneously published by the Book-of-the-Month-Club in America, printed on the same presses as the first editions, and thus can easily be confused with them. An excellent one-volume abridgment was published in 1959; largely the work of Churchill’s research assistant, Denis Kelly, though Churchill did contribute an interesting epilogue covering the years 1945-1957.
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Description
This virtually mint First American edition set is in astonishing condition, as fresh as the day it was published, crisp and bright, particularly the fade-prone spines, which are here entirely unfaded. Each pristine volume is preserved intact in individual red half-leather cloth solanders lettered in gilt on the spines.
Volume I has a hint of jacket flap toning to the endpapers, else fine. Volume II dust jacket has very faint rubs from case-wear. Volume IV dust jacket is price-clipped and exhibits case-wear that has rubbed the front jacket hinge just a bit. Volume V dust jacket is also price-clipped and exhibits faint rubs from case-wear.
The books and solanders are otherwise mint in every respect.
