A ROVING COMMISION: The Story of My Early Life
-Third American Edition (First Printing)-
1945
Third American Edition (First Printing)
Charles Scribner’s Sons [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.7.a)(Woods A37c)
8vo (370 pages)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 212217
$175.00
Collector's Guide
My Early Life is the only volume of personal memoirs that Churchill ever wrote. It is, arguably, his most entertaining book and an excellent entry point into his writing; a vivacious memoir of youth and wayward school boyhood. Published in the U.S. under the title A Roving Commission, the book has been endlessly re-issued in a variety of editions. True first editions, however, remain quite rare.
Description
A very good copy of the First Printing of the wartime Third American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket with shelfwear, particularly along the spine, including fractional loss at the spine head. The book itself is virtually mint, save for two miniscule pinholes to the spine, and the usual toning to the endpapers. The contents are fine.