Lot 300
BINDING W.S. CHURCHILL Second World War 6 vol 1st eds

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

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W.S. CHURCHILL [LEATHERBOUND] The Second World War [1st editions]

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com 

Sir Winston Spencer CHURCHILL (1874-1965). The Second World War. London, Toronto, [etc.]: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. 6 volumes, octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/8 in; 206 x 137mm). Maps and occasional plates, most folding. Recent red half morocco over cloth-covered boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, top edges of book-blocks gilded.

First editions - a beautiful set and inexpensive: similar sets are priced at between $2500 and $4000.

Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948); Volume II: Their Finest Hour. (1949); Volume III: The Grand Alliance (1950); Volume IV: The Hinge of Fate (1951); Volume V: Closing the Ring (1952); Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy (1954).