London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930. 392 pages including author's preface, maps and illustrations and index. Coarse plum cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine (5 gilt title/author lines to front). 12 titles listed to verso of fly title.Spine is faded and has some damp spots. Lower page edges are uncut. Some foxing to prelims and considerable foxing to page edges and to some margins but not affecting contents. Front gutter cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.. First Edition Second State. Cloth. Good Minus. 8vo.

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Bookseller: Bookcase (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33537
Title: My Early Life a Roving commission.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good Minus
Edition: First Edition Second State
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1930
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography & Biography;

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