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INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL: THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES IN SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET

CHURCHILL, Winston. Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth, (1932). Octavo, original olive cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

First edition of this fine collection of essays, with photographic frontispiece portrait, illustrated with seven political cartoons, in original cloth and with scarce original dust jacket, with “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill” on the front free endpaper.

“The broadest range of Churchill’s thought between hard covers, Thoughts and Adventures comprises essays on a vast array of subjects, attesting not only to the breadth of the author’s comprehension but of his personal experience. Not yet 60 when it was published, Churchill had already seen enough of the world from high office to fill several political careers; he had read widely, his photographic memory recording it all for reference; he had lived through what was then thought to be the greatest convulsion in history, the ‘War to End Wars? Churchill seems always a happy young warrior enjoying himself and sure of his convictions” (Langworth, 156). Cohen A95.1.a. Woods A39(a). Ownership inscription.

Interior fine; light rubbing to cloth extremities. Only lightest wear to extremities of lovely, near-fine dust jacket. A near-fine copy, most scarce inscribed and in original dust jacket.