Author: CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
Title: WORKS. A collection of First editions of his major book-length works,uniformly bound and including one volume SIGNED BY CHURCHILL.
Description: Various publishers.London. 1898-1961. ALL FIRST EDITIONS.31 individual titles issued in 49 volumes,bound in 47 volumes,8vo (various sizes).Uniformly bound by Bayntun of Bath,circa 1960 in dark blue-green half morocco,spines with five raised bands,lettered gilt in two or three compartments and individually dated at foot,compartments with single line rules around in gilt,blue cloth sides,marbled endpapers,top edges gilt;the last single-volume work finely bound to match by another bindery (Aquarius,U.K).Illustrations and maps where called for;separately-printed adverts discarded.Spines fairly evenly and lightly sunned but still overall an excellent set.-----------First Editions,SIGNED AND DATED by Winston Churchill in the first volume of Lord Randolph Churchill ("Winston S. Churchill / 28 Jan. 1907") a year after publication.The collection comprises all the principal book-length works of Winston Churchill (Woods A),beginning with his first book,Malakand Field Force,and ending with his last collection of speeches,The Unwritten Alliance.All works are in home editions.On occasion,such as with Savrola the American edition was published first,but (as famously with The Second World War) Churchill treated the home edition as definitive and made his corrections with that in mind,so that the British edition is preferred.--------Woods lists in his A section 142 Churchill titles;this collection reduces that total substantially by omitting the minor booklets and single published speeches which Woods included in his exhaustive bibliography.Painting as a Pastime is bound in at the back of Thoughts and Adventures.Maxims and Reflections, isted by Woods as a D item,is also included.----------The collection comprises:The Story of the Malakand Field Force,1898;The River War, 2v.,1899; Savrola,1900;London to Ladysmith via Pretoria,1900;Ian Hamilton's March,1900;Lord Randolph Churchill, 2v.,1906;My African journey,1908 Liberalism and the social problem,1909;The World Crisis, 6v.,1923–31;My Early Life,1930;Thoughts and Adventures & Painting as a pastime,1932;Marlborough,his life and times, 4v.,1933–38;Great Contemporaries,1937;Arms and the Covenant,1938;Step by Step,1939;The War Speeches,7v.in 6,1941–46;Maxims and Reflections,1947;The Second World War,6v.,1948–54;The complete post war speeches, 5v.,1948–61;and History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4v.,1956–58.A more detailed listing is available on request.

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