THE REMINISCENCES OF LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL by Cornwallis-West, Mrs. George - 1909

Edward Arnold, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. Second Impression. 372 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound with original cloth for library. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

New York: The Century Co, 1909. Early Printing. Hardbound. Good/No Jacket. Rare hardbound octavo in navy blue cloth with gold gild lettering; b/w plates passim, clean unmarked text , 470 pp w/appendix. Good cover w/considerable scuffing and shelf wear, some bending and loss at spine and corners, gold gild pages yellowing and acidic but clean and untorn, hinges loose but intact; no d/j. Rare book. 8vo (6.25" x 9").

EDWARD ARNO9LD, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Century Company. Good+. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding shaken. Board corners and edges bumped and worn. Previous owner's address sticker partly removed from first free endpaper, leaving a small tear. ; Text body is clean and unmarked. ; 470 pages .

New York: Century, 1909. Good. Later. Illustrated by Cornwallis-West, Mrs. George. Good. Hinges starting, spine worn, frays at spine ends, covers soiled, three 1" tears at top of spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Good.

New York: The Century Company, 1908. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear to boards/spine, crease on spine, bumps to corners, writing on pastedowns and FFEP, gift inscription on FFEP, mild toning and foxing to endpapers. text clean, binding intact./no DJ. 8vo 470pp. autobiography of American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill.. #01401.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: The Century Co., 1908. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (470 pages, illustrated, with frontis portrait photo). This is a good copy of the First American edition, with significant fading and shelfwear to the spine and covers, else fine. Winston Churchill’s mother, JEANETTE ("Jennie") JEROME (1854-1921) was born in Brooklyn and married Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill in April 1874. Her relationship to her son Winston was famously "affectionate but distant." Lord Randolph died in 1896. In July 1900 Lady Randolph married George Frederick Myddelton Cornwallis-West (twenty years her junior). They were divorced in 1918. In June 1918 she married Montagu Phippen Porch (twenty-five years her junior), a colonial official serving in Nigeria. The difference in their ages prompted her famous remark, "He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right." Winston Churchill’s close friend and personal secretary Edward Marsh described Jennie Churchill as "an incredible… Read More

New York: The Century co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Plate illustrations. Publisher's blue gilt embossed cloth with gilt coat-of-arms, top foreedge and spine title; with tissue interleavings to the plates and 1908 date on title page. Important memoir of the mother of Winston Churchill, with many vignettes of the young Churchill not found elsewhere. A clean, bright, unmarked copy with mild rubbing to bottom corners.