My Early Life / My African Journey: Vol. 1 of The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition.
by CHURCHILL, Winston S
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- 0903988011
- ISBN 13
- 9780903988018
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About This Item
London: Library of Imperial History / Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1973. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Octavo, printed on Archive Long Life Text paper, bound in full vellum, all edges gilt, with 24-carat gold lettering, in bumped publisher's slipcase with gilt-stamped heraldic crest.
This volume contains Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill's "Preface to The Collected Works". Promoted as an edition limited to 3000 sets for the world, in fact only 1700 were sold. This volume is a "Subscriber's Proof Copy": it was sent to R. Hunt as a sample volume, and it may lack some textual corrections, and may have redrawn maps. It was directed to be returned to the publisher after examination. Its binding matches the published volumes. Only complete sets of 34 + 4 volumes were to be sold by the publisher. The General Editor for this set was Frederick Woods, the bibliographer of Churchill [ See the Woods bibliography p. 391].
This volume contains Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill's "Preface to The Collected Works". Promoted as an edition limited to 3000 sets for the world, in fact only 1700 were sold. This volume is a "Subscriber's Proof Copy": it was sent to R. Hunt as a sample volume, and it may lack some textual corrections, and may have redrawn maps. It was directed to be returned to the publisher after examination. Its binding matches the published volumes. Only complete sets of 34 + 4 volumes were to be sold by the publisher. The General Editor for this set was Frederick Woods, the bibliographer of Churchill [ See the Woods bibliography p. 391].
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- My Early Life / My African Journey
- Author
- CHURCHILL, Winston S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- issued without
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- ISBN 10
- 0903988011
- ISBN 13
- 9780903988018
- Publisher
- Library of Imperial History / Hamlyn Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- churchill, winston churchill, , Nobel Prize for Literature, Uganda,
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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