History & Politics

First edition, 4to., iii, 52 pp., publisher's quarter morocco gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at extremities, rear board with partial fading but internally fine.

Second edition of vols. 1-2; first edition of vols. 3-4, 4 vols., 4to, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked preserving original red and green morocco lettering-pieces, an excellent set.

Vols III-IV first editions, vols I-II reprinted; 4 vols, large 8vo; plates, maps and illustrations; full dark blue crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (signed on turn-ins), spines tooled in gilt with raised bands, top edge gilt, a few small, minor and marks to covers, preserved in original card slipcases (one split).

Three individual leaflets. Single leaves printed on one side. A little dusty but in excellent condition.

First edition, vol I signed on the front prelim: 'From Winston Churchill/ July 24 1924'; 2 vols, 8vo; frontispieces, 16 plates, one folding, occasional spotting to vol. I but in the main, clean and bright; lavish twentieth century full black morocco for Asprey, gilt-panelled and bordered with Churchillian devices to front and rear boards as well as the ribbed spins, silk doublures within twin-panelled dentelles, all edges gilt, a fine set.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; frontispieces, 16 plates, one folding; publisher's rich red cloth, blocked in gilt & blind, spines very very slightly sunned, minor bumping to lower fore-corners but overall a near fine set.

First edition; 8vo; map endpapers; publisher's blue cloth, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket a little chipped and spotted, but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece, facsimiles of letters; publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dust-jacket, mild dust-soiling, old conservational repairs to reverse.