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May 20, 02:42 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Winston S. Churchill
Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1932
8vo. Photographic frontispiece, illustrated with cartoon reproductions; half-title toned, other pages faintly browned, final four leaves roughly separated. Original khaki cloth, gilt-lettered, original unclipped dust jacket; minor rubbing to lower extremities, jacket toned and professionally reinforced on verso. The dust jacket is unclipped and a bit darkened with age, intact, but archivally reinforced internally.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUST JACKET
An anthology of Churchill’s essays and magazine articles from the 1920s and early 1930s on a wide variety of subjects, including "Painting as a Pastime."
A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, RARELY FOUND IN JACKET
REFERENCE:
Cohen A95.1.a; Woods A39a