MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times
-Mixed First American Edition Set-
1933-38
Mixed 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 (with Dust Jacket) [Green cloth]
Item Number: 204235
$300.00
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 good mixed First American edition set, without dust jackets. Volumes I and II are later impressions, lacking Scribners’ title page “A” signifier for first editions. The cloth and prelims of Volumes III-VI are damp-stained. The contents are otherwise fine.
Scribners published the English Volume I divided into two books (designated Volumes I & II) and slipcased as a set. They did the same with the English Volume II (designated Volumes III & IV). All four were issued in plain white dust jackets, printed in green. The British Volumes III and IV were then published in the U.S. as Volumes V and VI, respectively, in a red and white, and then blue and gold dust jacket. Upon issuing the final volume (VI), Scribners rewrapped the set uniformly in the blue and gold jackets and boxed them together in a simple green card slipcase with a printed top label.