Description
First edition of The Great War by Winston Churchill, three ex-library volumes. Quarto, [in three volumes], iv, 512pp; iv, 513-1024pp; iv, 1025-1668pp. Publishers dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative gilt and blind stamp on covers. Wear along bottom edge, some fraying of cloth. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Previous library catalogue label on spine, library stamp on text block and front endpaper. Bookplate affixed to front endpaper of each volume. Fully illustrated with black and white illustrations, maps and photographs. (Woods A31a) A nice set.
Comments: Originally published as The World Crises in six volumes, this three volume edition is the first fully illustrated compilation of the work by Winston Churchill. Biographer William Manchester references the book and notes that “…his masterpiece is The World Crises. Magnificently written, it is enhanced by the presence of the author at the highest councils of the war and in the trenches as a battalion commander.”
