My Early Life. A Roving Commission
by CHURCHILL, Winston S
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About This Item
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930.. First edition, second state. 8vo. 392 pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, contemporary ownership inscription of an A[?] Wentworth-Day of 61 Pall Mall SW1 to the front pastedown. Frontispiece, 16 plates, including a folding map, and 11 illustrations in the text Sunning to the spine, occasional marking to the covers, some mild foxing, else a decent set. Woods, A37(a). Langworth, pp. 132-133. There are 12 other works by Churchill listed on the half title verso and is bound in smooth cloth with five lines of gilt lettering to the upper board.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
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- Title
- My Early Life. A Roving Commission
- Author
- CHURCHILL, Winston S
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Thornton Butterworth Limited
- Date Published
- 1930.
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