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Manor Books, 1972. Paperback. Good. 372 p., clean and unmarked anywhere, somewhat age-toned but not brittle; binding tight; Photographic wrapper showing an actor resembling Churchill in his youth with caption "Now a Major Motion Picture Young Winston"; corner of front panel creased an d small closed tear at foot of spine.

Fontana Books, 1972. Paperback. Good. 1972. Eighth Impression. 382 pages. Pictorial paperback. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins - Fontana Books, 1972. Paperback. Good. 1972. Ninth Impression. 382 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Odhams Books Limited. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (churchill, history, biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Macmillan & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Reprint. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. The plate on the spine is a little shelf rubbed. Internally, The front and back hinge is cracked, and netting is a little exposed. There is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*02/23/2023 [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Odhams Press, 1957. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. shelf wear on the boards. mild foxing and markings. all pages are intact and presentable. may require extra postage outside South Africa. reprint. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Odhams Press 1947. LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

The Reprint Society 1944. LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Odhams Press 1948. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Odhams Press 1948. Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) boards stained, jacket scruffy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. Third Impression. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright tanned with visible foxing. Heavy tanning to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Winston Churchill, Prime Ministers, Autobiography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. New Impression. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

The Folio Society, 2008. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Cloth, F. xxvi+388pp, b/w frontis, 16pp b/w plates, 11 b/w maps, index, a fine copy in the slipcase as issued. Churchill's biography, from his earliest memories to his entering the House of Commons as MP for Oldham.

Folio Society, 2007T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Hardcover book bound in pictorial boards, printed on fine paper, sewn signature binding, and housed in the original publisher's slipcase. Former owner blind stamp on half-title page. Otherwise, Very good+ copy. VG-

London: Odhams Press, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. pp X, 373. AE Red. Believed an unread book.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. 372pp/maps. Churchill's early military experiences in school, India and Africa. Clean. Reprint Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Spine and top1/2" of rear cover sunned. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Title-page with light foxing at periphery. Frontispiece portraity of Jenny Jerome, Sir Winston's mother. This is the American edition of "Mt Early Life". Collated complete with 28 illustrations and maps. A very clean copy through the text. 377pp. Woods A37(b). . First American Edition. Red Cloth. Minor Wear and Soining/No Dust Jacket. Medium Crown Octavo.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1943. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, third printing. Hardcover. This is a Second World War reprint of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s autobiography of his early life, published in 1943, during Churchill’s wartime premiership. Churchill's extremely popular autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament, was first published in 1930 by Thornton Butterworth Limited. This was at the beginning of a decade the author spent out of power and out of favor, frequently at odds with both his Government and prevailing public sentiment. But in 1940, terribly vindicated by the outbreak of the Second World War and the failure of the leaders he had so long criticized, Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. And also in 1940, Thornton Butterworth went under and a different publisher, Macmillan, acquired the rights to several of Churchill’s books. Hence wartime reprints by Macmillan using the original first… Read More