Into Battle: Speeches by the Right Hon Winston S Churchill
by CHURCHILL, The Rt Hon WINSTON S & CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S (Compiled by)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Cassell & Company 1941. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION (lacks Sept 1939 House of Commons speech & lacks pagination to pgs 214 & 294, pagination present to pg 78, Book Society Choice to jacket), octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 313pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, v sl fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, varying degrees of foxing throughout- mostly quite light) in d/w, G+ (price clipped, v heavy chipping & loss to edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to rear cover & flaps, light fading to spine)
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- Title
- Into Battle: Speeches by the Right Hon Winston S Churchill
- Author
- CHURCHILL, The Rt Hon WINSTON S & CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S (Compiled by)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company 1941
- Keywords
- first editions Winston Churchill speeches collection inspiration politics political government parliament
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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