Description
This is a First American edition set in very good condition, without dust jackets. The cloth of Volumes I and II is lightly damp-stained, the gilt spine type on Volumes I, II and V has faded. The contents are fine.
With apologies for the complicated lineage: Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I divided into two books (designated Volumes I & II) and slipcased as a set. Scribners did the same with the English Volume II (designated Volumes III & IV as a set). All four books were issued in plain white dust jackets, printed in green. Scribners then published in the U.S. the English Volumes III and IV as Volumes V and VI, respectively, Volume V in a red and white dust jacket, Volume VI in a blue and gold dust jacket. Upon issuing the final volume (VI), Scribners then rewrapped the set uniformly in the final-blue and gold jacket and boxed the six together in a simple green card slipcase with a printed top-label.
MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times
-First American Edition Set without Dust Jackets-
1933-1938
First American Edition Set
By: Winston S. Churchill
Charles Scribners Sons [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A97.4[I-VI].a (Woods A40b)
8vo. (2,500+ pages, illustrated with portraits,maps, plans.)
Hardcover [Green cloth]
Item Number: 4038
$600.00
Collector's Guide
Marlborough is Winston Churchill’s majestic biography of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough; soldier, statesmen, hard-headed Churchillian ancestor. Initially published in England as a lush four-volume set and then as a somewhat less deluxe six-volume set in America, it was subsequently issued in an unabridged two-volume edition and a single-volume abridgment.
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Description
This is a First American edition set in very good condition, without dust jackets. The cloth of Volumes I and II is lightly damp-stained, the gilt spine type on Volumes I, II and V has faded. The contents are fine.
With apologies for the complicated lineage: Scribners published in the U.S. the English Volume I divided into two books (designated Volumes I & II) and slipcased as a set. Scribners did the same with the English Volume II (designated Volumes III & IV as a set). All four books were issued in plain white dust jackets, printed in green. Scribners then published in the U.S. the English Volumes III and IV as Volumes V and VI, respectively, Volume V in a red and white dust jacket, Volume VI in a blue and gold dust jacket. Upon issuing the final volume (VI), Scribners then rewrapped the set uniformly in the final-blue and gold jacket and boxed the six together in a simple green card slipcase with a printed top-label.
