A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-English Abridged Edition-
1998
"New" English Abridged Edition (Second Printing)
Cassell and Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A267.28b) (Woods A138a)
8vo (630 pages)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Aqua blue cloth]
Item Number: 200889
$45.00
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
A contemporary abridgment that reduces Churchill’s text by 40%, largely by excising his writing about the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A very good copy, in dust jacket.