A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-First English Edition Set in Dust Jackets-
1956-1958
First English Edition Set
Cassell and Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a)
8vo (440 pages, 350 pages, 352 pages & 346 pages. Illustrated with maps and tables.)
Hardcover in Dust Jackets [Red cloth]
Item Number: 212940
$850.00
Collector's Guide
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples was Winston Churchill’s last great work; a sweeping, four-volume history of England, her colonies, and the language that Churchill so venerated and ennobled in his own writings. Published nearly twenty years after Churchill composed his first draft in the late-1930s, the books were released after the war simultaneously in Britain, the U.S., and Canada over a period of three years. The original English edition was handsomely printed, the American and Canadian editions less so. Subsequent re-issues and abridgments abound.
Description
This is a very good First English edition set, in unclipped dust jackets that have uniformly darkened ever so slightly with age but are otherwise fresh. Volume I dust jacket has an infinitesimal chip at the center of the front face and some light edgewear to the spine head only. Volume II jacket has modest and very faint dampstaining along the spine. There is very scattered, almost negligible foxing to the fore-edges of the first three volumes, most pronounced to Volume I, and variably faded topstains. The contents of all volumes are otherwise fine.