ARMS AND THE COVENANT
-First English Edition without Dust Jacket-
1938
First English Edition
George G. Harrap & Co. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A107.1) (Woods A44a)
8vo (466 pages)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Dark blue cloth]
Item Number: 212671
$950.00
Collector's Guide
Arms and the Covenant captures Churchill’s initial alarms against Hitler and the Nazis in forty-one prophetic pre-war speeches delivered from 1928-1938, edited by his son Randolph. Published in the U.S. under the title While England Slept, the book, according to FDR, sat on his White House nightstand in 1938.
Description
This is a virtually mint copy of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth is a rich and unfaded dark blue, including the notoriously fade-prone spine. The binding is tight, the corners square. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the front pastedown and the usual light toning to the half-title from the frontis photo. Else fine.