MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times
-First American Edition Set in Uniform Dust Jackets-
1933-38
First American Edition Set
Charles Scribners Sons [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A97.4[I-VI].a (Woods A40b)
8vo (2,500+ pages, illustrated with portraits,maps, plans.)
Hardcover in Dust Jackets [Green cloth]
Item Number: 212440
$1,500.00
Collector's Guide
Marlborough is Winston Churchill’s majestic biography of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough; soldier, statesmen, hard-headed Churchillian ancestor. Initially published in England as a lush four-volume set and then as a somewhat less deluxe six-volume set in America, it was subsequently issued in an unabridged two-volume edition and a single-volume abridgment.
Description
This is a very good First American edition set wrapped in the final-state, uniform blue and gold dust jackets The jackets here are all unclipped and exhibit moderate shelf wear with some darkening to the spines. Due to the jackets’ protection, the cloth and gilt lettering on all volumes is mint and the contents are fine, with a previous owner name inked on the front free endpaper of Volume I and a gift inscription dated “Xmas 1939” discreetly inked on the front free endpaper of Volume V. Else fine.
With apologies for the complicated lineage: Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I divided into two books (designated Volumes I & II) and slipcased as a set. Scribners did the same with the English Volume II (designated Volumes III & IV as a set). All four books were issued in plain white dust jackets, printed in green. Scribners then published in the U.S. the English Volumes III and IV as Volumes V and VI, respectively, Volume V in a red and white dust jacket, Volume VI in a blue and gold dust jacket. Upon issuing the final volume (VI), Scribners then rewrapped the set uniformly in the final-blue and gold jacket and boxed the six together in a simple green card slipcase with a printed top-label.