LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
-First American Edition Set-
1906
First American Edition Set
Macmillan & Co. [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A17.2) (Woods A8aa)
8vo (586 pages and 546 pages, illustrated, with tissue protected photo frontispieces.)
Hardcover [Deep red cloth]
Item Number: 209940
$450.00
Collector's Guide
Lord Randolph Churchill was Winston Churchill’s first work of biography and an impassioned two-volume defense of his maligned father’s posthumous reputation. It was subsequently issued in an unabridged one-volume edition and is a bulwark of any Churchill collection.
Description
This is a good-to-very good First American edition set. The red cloth retains strong color, though the spines have faded, with a crease running the length of the spine of Volume II. The gilt titles and gilded top fore-edges are bright. There is foxing to the prelims and crisply repaired hinges, front and rear, in both volumes. The contents are otherwise fine.