"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

Wellington, NZ: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1955. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 400 [4]. With many maps, including six folding, as well as two suites of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Heavy spotting to edges. Light rubbing and bumping to cloth. Very good. Item #56706
From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.
Price: £120.00