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Churchill. History of English Speaking Peoples

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Churchill. History of English Speaking Peoples
<B>Winston S. Churchill. </B></I><B><I>A History of the English-Speaking Peoples</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> London: Cassell and Company, [1956-1958]. <BR>First editions, first impressions. Four large octavo volumes (9.5 x 6.0625 inches). Comprising, Volume I: <I>The Birth of Britain</B></I>; Volume II: <I>The New World</B></I>; Volume III: <I>The Age of Revolution</B></I>; and Volume IV: <I>The Great Democracies</B></I>. xxi, 416; xi, 344; xi, 332; xi, 322 pages. Maps and genealogical tables in the text.<BR><BR>Publisher's red buckram lettered in gilt on spine. Light rubbing to extremities, a few corners and spine ends bumped. Volume I with light foxing to endpapers, edges, and first and last few leaves. A very good set. In the original color pictorial dust jackets. Jackets lightly rubbed, with a few small edge chips and tears, and some slight browning and foxing. Jacket of Volume I price-clipped.<BR><BR>"If a potential buyer of these volumes were to ask one question: Why must they beyond any doubt find a place on my shelves?-it can be answered shortly. There has never been a history like this written by a man who has himself made history; never have the political and diplomatic decisions of the past been considered by a writer who, all his life, has had to make decisions of the same character and of the same magnitude. That alone must make this history unique" (rear flap of Volume I dust jacket).<BR><BR>Woods A138(a).<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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