A SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WINSTON CHURCHILL IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 20th, 1940 by Churchill, Winston S - 1940

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1940. Pp. 16; med. 8vo; printed grey[?] paper wrappers, stapled, foxed and lightly soiled, edges faded and slightly rubbed, with short closed tear to bottom edge of lower wrapper, book label of British politician and diplomat Malcolm MacDonald (son of former Prime Minster Ramsay MacDonald) on verso of upper wrapper; staples rusted, a little faint creasing, scattered foxing; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1940. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a); Printing and the Mind of Man No. 424. [together with] SPEECH Broadcast by The Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill, April 27, 1941. Pp. 8; tall demy 8vo; self-wrappers, stapled; pages browned and a trifle foxed; The British Library of Information, New York, 1941. Cohen A145; Woods A70 *Both from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his book label on verso of upper wrappers. Housed together within a plain cardboard portfolio with printed paper title labels, lightly foxed and worn. According to Cohen [p. 526] the HMSO edition of Churchill's famous 1940 speech (Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few) is in various forms. 'Owing to paper shortages, these were printed on different paper stocks and bound in different wrappers'. Because of the fading of the wrappers of this copy, it is hard to be sure, but it is probably Cohen's A131.1.a (unwatermarked paper, light bluish grey wrappers).