The Last Lion Trilogy: Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory, 1874-1932; Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940; Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965.

MANCHESTER, William; Paul Reid.

Item Number: 3415

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983-2012..

First editions of the author’s acclaimed trilogy on Winston Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. All 3 volumes are signed by the authors: Volumes 1 & 2 are signed by William Manchester; volume 3 is signed by Paul Reid, whom the author chose to finish the volume following his death in 2004. Each are near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets with light wear. A very nice set, uncommon signed.

"Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time" (The New Yorker).