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A near fine set of the first Swedish edition. The bindings of cream cloth spine over patterned paper boards are clean and unworn, with strong blue lettering to the spine and front face. Everything is square and tight, with sharp unbumped edges and corners. Inside the contents are immaculate, with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. Photographic illustration plates throughout. Overall a very handsome shelf appearance. The appearance of the Memoirs of the Second World War was, by any standards, a monumental publishing event. The total first edition print run for the individual English and American volumes was in excess of 1,900,000. The work was serialised extensively, going so far, in the case of The New York Times, as to reproduce more than a third of the text - which itself ran to over two million words. Of all Churchill's works the memoirs have also generated the most controversy, as one would expect. They were written with unprecedented access to government papers and while the events described were still fresh in the readers' mind. Selective as they are, they have generated enormous debate as to their quality as 'history'. Churchill, of course, was always careful to deny that they were intended to be history, but in that he was, perhaps, being a little disingenuous. However, perhaps the most important aspect of the memoirs is also the most obvious. They made Churchill rich. The American arrangement alone was worth in excess of two million dollars - probably the equivalent of well over twenty million dollars in today's money. To the best of my knowledge Cassell's arrangement for the English rights has yet to be revealed. Please note that this is a heavy set and may incur additional shipping costs. Text in Swedish. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers NT001714
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