THE WORLD CRISIS
Wartime Odhams Press Reprint Edition in Original Shipping Boxes-
1939
First English Odhams Standard Edition
Odhams Press [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A69.11.c) (Woods A31fa)
8vo
Hardcover without Dust Jackets [Blue Grain cloth]
Item Number: 212306
$500.00
Collector's Guide
The World Crisis is Churchill’s highly subjective history of the First World War. Comprising five volumes (in six books) written over eight years, the initial titles were first published in the U.S. (by a matter of days), making the American edition the true first edition. Volume I (1911-1914) and Volume II (1915) were published in 1923. Volume III (1916-1918 ) was published in two parts in 1927 (hence the five/in six volumes ultimate format). Volume IV (The Aftermath 1918-1928) was published in 1929; and Volume V (The Unknown War/The Eastern Front) in 1931. A one-volume abridgment by the author was soon issued. Most subsequent re-issues have been incomplete, abridged, or otherwise condensed versions of the original text.
Description
This is an as-new Standard binding set of the handsome two-volume reprint edition that Odhams Press issued, without dust jackets, in January 1939. Not an abridgment, the edition contains the complete text of the WORLD CRISIS, Volumes I through III, plus emendations and a new Foreword by the author. THE AFTERMATH [Volume IV] and THE UNKNOWN WAR [Volume V] are not included.
Extraordinarily, these books are each preserved in their original wartime shipping cartons with labels. Needless to say, rare thus.