Item #75921 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Winston Spencer CHURCHILL, Sir.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xxii; 416; pp.[2]; xii; 344; [2]; pp.[2]; xii; 332; [6]; pp.[2]; xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, top edges red, pictorial dust-jackets priced at 30s. Light to moderate spotting to edges, and a little spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Bright jackets show some toning to spine, and minor wear and chipping to edges. Very good. This is the author's last great work, only available some twenty years after he wrote the first draft, which then lay dormant whilst he attended to National and Parliamentary matters. In his preface he remarks that the book 'slumbered peacefully', until 1956, 'when things had quietened down'. Reading reports of the last decade of his life, one is struck by the central interest this history represented in his final years, and how rapidly he sank into decline and depression after the final volume was published. Item #75921

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