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— Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill As I Knew Him.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode and Collins, 1965. [Churchill and Politics] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.496. With 20 black and white photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece. Recent black half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and marbled paper-covered boards. Top edge black. Contents clean, exterior as new. An excellent copy in a handsome recent leather binding. Easily one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, Carter was at the heart of liberal politics and the government during one of its most turbulent periods. Daughter of Prime Minister Asquith, President of the Liberal Party from 1945-47, and grandmother of the actress Helena Bonham Carter, Violet was also Churchill's closest female friend after his wife Clementine. Published in the year of his death, this is an intimate and entirely positive portrait of Britain's Demosthenes. Item #76131
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