THE STORY OF MY EARLY LIFE: A ROVING COMMISSION
-Third American Edition-
1949
Third American Edition (Fifth Printing)
Charles Scribners Sons [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A91.7.e)(Woods A37c)
8vo (370 pages)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Grey cloth]
Item Number: 212210
$50.00
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, without dust jacket of this postwar reprint. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown and a slight chip in the page edges of the front free endpaper and half-title. Else fine.