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Item Details
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| Author: |
Churchill, Winston S. |
| Title: |
The Second World War |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Cassell & Co., Ltd. |
| Date: |
[1948-1954] |
| Item # : |
126181 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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13 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 5175 |
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| Description: |
| 6 vols. Some illustrated with plates of facsimiles and maps (most of which are folding); charts and tables. 8vo. Black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, jackets, all housed in two custom light blue linen slipcases. First Trade Editions. |
| Signed by Winston S. Churchill on Volume I title page. Churchill's complete six volume classic history on WWII, including: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grant Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; and Triumph and Tragedy. Volume I with author's paper slip note tipped-in after his preface. Woods A123.b. |
| Condition: |
| Jacket spines a bit sunned, each with a few short tears (chiefly at spine ends), light soiling; volumes with some shelf wear and soiling; front hinge cracking and faint foxing to Vol. I page edges and contents, tiny dampstain to top page edge; Vol. II hinge towards rear cracking; else a very good to near fine set in like jackets with fine slipcases. |
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