A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

$9,500.00

Item Number: 147917

London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958.

First British editions of each volumes of this classic set, which many consider his masterpiece. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Winston Churchill in volume two. Each volume is fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional set, rare and desirable signed.

"Churchill’s last great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously in Britain, the USA and Canada— a first for Churchill’s works" (Langworth, 312).