Designed and produced by Edito-Service S.A. Geneva, for Diners Club in Association with Fine Art International Limited.
This edition published by arrangement with the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1974
The set includes: My Early Life (1 volume) Lord Randolph Churchill (2 volumes) Marlborough, His Life and Times (4 volumes) The World Crisis (5 volumes) The War Speeches (3 volumes) A History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 volumes) The Second World War (6 volumes).With the original publisher’s prospectus (from which the detailed photographs below have been taken.)
No limitation is mentioned.
Bound in maroon leather with a simulated morocco grain, decorated gilt, titled gilt on black labels on the spines, maroon silk endpapers and silk place markers, all edges gilt. Light wear at the tops and bottoms of the spines and at the corners of some volumes, tipped-in photographic portrait of Churchill by Karsh of Ottowa in each volume.
With the original
A good set.
Cohen (Ronald) Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, volume I, pages 1100-1104, A.A.2., 'This set consists of 25 volumes, each of which is photo-reproduced from one of the earlier editions of the seven major works reissued on a subscription basis in 1974 by the Diners Club in London.'
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
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