THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES
-Rare Variant Binding of the First English Edition-
1933
First English Edition
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen 95.1.a) (Wooods A39ab)
8vo (320 pages, illustrated with cartoon reproductions and a photo frontis)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Pale Green cloth]
Item Number: 211635
$4,500.00
Collector's Guide
Thoughts and Adventures is a terrific anthology of Churchill essays and magazine articles from the 1920s and early 1930s on a wide variety of subjects, including, especially, his much-loved essay “Painting as a Pastime.” It was issued in the U.S. under the title Amid These Storms.
Description
This is a gorgeous copy of the variant pale green cloth binding of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The cloth and gilt lettering are fresh and bright and the contents are fine, virtually mint.
Quite rare thus.