THE POST-WAR SPEECHES
-First American Edition Set with Dust Jackets Complete in Four Volumes-
1948-1953
First American Edition Set
Houghton Mifflin Company [Boston]
Biblio: (Cohen A241.2-A264.2) (Woods A124-A137)
8vo
Hardcover in Dust Jackets [Cloth]
Item Number: 212445
$1,000.00
Collector's Guide
The Postwar Speeches of Winston Churchill were published beginning in 1948 with The Sinews of Peace, which collected late-1945-1946 speeches, including Churchill’s historic Fulton, Missouri “Iron Curtain” speech. This was followed by Europe Unite in 1950 (1947-1948 speeches), In the Balance in 1951 (1949-1950 speeches), Stemming the Tide in 1953 (1951-1952 speeches), and The Unwritten Alliance in 1961 (1953-1959 speeches). The Unwritten Alliance appeared in England only and is thus the rarest of the postwar speech volumes.
Description
A virtually mint First American edition set of the four postwar speech volumes, as published in the U.S., in the rare original dust jackets, which are are unclipped, bright and unfaded, with the exception of the spine for IN THE BALANCE, which is sun-faded, as per usual. There is also minute, fractional loss at the spine head and edge-creases to the front face.
The cloth and contents of all volumes are fine, virtually mint, with a tiny vintage price sticker on the front pastedown of SINEWS OF PEACE, and a tiny vintage bookshop plate on the front pastedown of STEMMING THE TIDE.
A truly beautiful set.