BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
-Second Printing of the First Canadian Edition-
1941
First Canadian Edition (Second Printing)
McClelland & Stewart Ltd. [Toronto]
Biblio: (Cohen A 142.6.a) (Woods A66b)
16mo (528 pages, photo frontis, 55 speeches)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Maroon cloth]
Item Number: 207297
$185.00
Collector's Guide
Into Battle is the first volume of Winston Churchill’s collected World War II speeches (covering May 1938-November 9, 1940). Here are many of Churchill’s most notable oratorical flourishes of the war, including “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” “their finest hour,” and “never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill’s speeches were collected and published yearly throughout the war beginning with this one in 1941. Into Battle was published in the U.S. and Canada under the title: Blood, Sweat and Tears. The U.S. (and Book-of-the-Month-Club) editions added four speeches that do not appear in the English edition, those of December 19 and 23, 1940 and January 9 and February 9, 1941.
Description
This is a virtually mint copy of the Second Printing of the First Canadian edition without dust jacket. The contents are fine and unfoxed. This Second Printing added three speeches not included in the First Printing, delivered by Churchill on December 19 and 23, 1940 and on February 9, 1941.