"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

London: George G. Harrap, 1938. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.466. With frontispiece photograph of Winston Churchill. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. One of just 5000 copies from the original print-run. Half-title toned, spine sunned, a few drip marks to upper. Good overall. A volume of Churchill's speeches on National Defence and Foreign Affairs. The US version, entitled 'While England Slept' was published later in September 1938. Item #61392
Langworth p.192.
Price: £225.00