The Grand Alliance: The Second World War.
First Edition of Winston Churchill’s The Grand Alliance; Finely Bound
The Grand Alliance: The Second World War.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Item Number: 4103
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
First edition. Octavo, finely bound in three quarters blue morocco over marbled boards. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. Note laid in stating that this was a gift of the binder. Fine in a fine slipcase.
The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "drew upon thousands of his own memoranda and documents in British archives, but in the end, this epic is structured on his personal experiences and expresses his courage and astonishing self-confidence."
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