Churchill, Winston | My Early Life, inscribed to David Lloyd George

Churchill, Winston

My Early Life: A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930

8vo. Original wine-colored cloth, gilt-lettered and blind stamped; spine sunned. Collector's clamshell box.

First edition, second state. A presentation copy inscribed by the author to David Lloyd George.

From a future Prime Minister to the ex-Prime Minister, this extraordinary presentation copy was given by Churchill to a man he revered and referred to constantly. In his obituary tribute in the House of Commons in 1945, Churchill called Lloyd George “the greatest Welshman which that unconquerable race has produced since the age of the Tudors.” Churchill had worked under Lloyd George during World War One and asked Lloyd George to work for him in his War Cabinet during World War Two. Violet Bonham Carter wrote that Lloyd George's “was the only personal leadership I have ever known Winston to accept unquestioningly in his whole political career.” 

A fine, bright copy.

REFERENCE:

Woods A37(a)

PROVENANCE:

David Lloyd George (presentation inscription)