Bonham-Carter, Violet

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "My darling Clemmie - with love & gratitude from Violet 1965", 8vo, plain plates, red morocco gilt binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt edges

A good copy.
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Violet Bonham-Carter (née Asquith), daughter of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, had a friendship with Churchill that spanned fifty years, and her book is widely regarded as providing one of the most perceptive portraits of Churchill. The two first.mes t at a dinner party in 1906 when he was thirty-one and she nineteen. She was left awestruck by his eloquence as he burst forth with a diatribe on the immensity of possible human accomplishment, "a torrent of magnificent language which appeared to be both effortless and inexhaustible and ended with the words I shall always remember: 'We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.'" When she returned home she announced to her father that for the first t.mes in her life she had seen genius (see Jenkins, Churchill, p.137).