Winston Churchill by Henry Pelling - 1991

VERY GOOD+ condition --- Firm binding. Crisp exteriors. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Bookmarker slightly frayed tail on Volume I. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


This two volume set was featured in the Easton Press series "The Library of Great Lives". Published in 1991, and bound in handsome Burgundy leather, the set is 1st Edition thus.


Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.

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"In this biography of Churchill from birth to death the author considers the soldier and foreign corresponent in India, the Sudan and South Africa, the brilliant young politician of the pre-1914 era who acted as a daring initiator of the Gallipoli and Antwerp campaigns at the start of World War I, his chequered career in the 1920s and his wilderness years in the 1930s and his years as Prime Minister. His subsequent career, in opposition and as Prime Minister for the second time, is surveyed. The author examines the private man, the journalist, historian, painter and family man. The author has written many books including 'The Origins of the Labour Party', 'The Challenge of Socialism', 'Labour and Politics', 'Modern Britain', 'Britain and the Second World War' and The Labour Governments' ".


The above text derives from Dutton Publishers (via Google Books)
[Pelling, Henry. Winston Churchill. United Kingdom: Dutton, 1974.]