Into Battle

Winston S. Churchill

Verlag: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1941

Beschreibung

This is a jacketed British first edition, ninth printing, of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches. Into Battle contains Churchill s speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes. The British first editions are visually striking, but were printed on cheap "War Economy Standard" paper, bound in coarse cloth, and wrapped in bright, fragile dust jackets. They proved highly susceptible to spotting, soiling, and fading, so the passage of time has been hard on most surviving first editions. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life begins.There were twelve printings of this edition. This ninth printing was issued in January 1942, less than a year after the first printing, and is quite similar in appearance, the binding the same as the first printing, as are both faces and the spine of the dust jacket. Condition is very good in a good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is unfaded, square, and tight, with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and only minor wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are bright with modest spotting primarily confined to the first and final leaves and the otherwise bright page edges. The sole previous ownership mark is contemporary a book plate affixed to the front pastedown and hand-dated "21.8.42". The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. Minor loss is confined to the spine ends, which were reinforced from the verso by a previous owner with what appears to be strips from a donor dust jacket. The spine is a bit toned and the jacket shows moderate overall wear, but is nonetheless respectably clean. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, Nobel Prize winner, painter. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world. Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly "…for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." Reference: Cohen A142.1.j, Woods/ICS A66(a.9), Langworth p.204. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007381

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Into Battle

Verlag: Cassell and Company Ltd., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1941

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: First edition, ninth printing.