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A ROVING COMMISSION: The Story of My Early Life
-Second American Edition (Third Printing Variant) in Dust Jacket-
1941
Second American Edition (Third Printing)
Charles Scribners Sons [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.5.c) (Woods A37c)
8vo (370 pages, illustrated)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Blue-Grey cloth]
Item Number: 206468
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
This is a very good copy of the Third Printing of the wartime Second American Edition in a price-clipped dust jacket that is in very good condition, just a bit rubbed along the spine. The cloth is an apparent variant, conforming to the Cohen description of the Second Printing with purplish-blue unembossed calico textured cloth and no topstain but with the Third Printing pub date on the title page: 1941. The cloth is clean and bright; virtually mint. The endpapers are lightly toned, as per usual with this book. The contents are otherwise fine.
Produced from the First American edition plates, with a new Introduction by the legendary American journalist Dorothy Thompson.