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Sphere Books, 1967. Paperback. Good. 1967. First Edition Thus. 512 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Contains maps. Volume II. Clean pages and maps with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Moderate tanning and wear marks to spine and covers. Price sticker to front cover.
Marlborough: His Life and Times, Volume II by Winston S. Churchill - 1934
by Winston S. Churchill
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, Volume II
by Winston S. Churchill
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1934. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing of the second volume of Churchill's Marlborough: His Life and Times. During the four years covered by Volume II (1702-1705), Marlborough led England as Captain-General. The volume is a substantial 651 pages with 31 illustrations, 76 maps and plans, and 3 document facsimiles. This British first trade edition is a physically impressive production. Each volume measures 9.25 x 6.25 inches (23.5 x 15.9 cm) and is roughly 2 inches thick (5 cm). Each is bound in plum cloth with beveled edges, the Marlborough coat of arms in gilt on the front cover, and a gilt top edge. Moreover, each volume is profusely illustrated. Unfortunately, the plum cloth bindings of Volumes I-III proved highly susceptible to sunning.
This copy is notably clean and bright for the edition very good plus in a poor dust jacket. The plum cloth binding, which proved remarkably susceptible to sunning, is not only square and tight, but also features beautifully bright shelf presentation. The spine retains unfaded color save for small hints of sunning to the spine ends. We note only trivial shelf wear and a tiny split at the spine head. The contents are crisp and bright with no previous ownership marks and an unread feel. Spotting, endemic to the edition, is trivial, confined to a small portion of the fore edges. The fore and bottom edges are otherwise clean apart from mild age-toning. The gilt top edge remains bright. The dust jacket is first printing, but that is its sole virtue. Though price-clipped, the portion where 2nd Impression would be printed bears no such print, confirming first printing. There are significant losses all along the perimeter and a series of scuffs, scars, and holes to the rear face. We have fitted this poor jacket with a removable, clear, archival cover.
Winston Churchill's monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, was initially conceived a full 40 years before publication of the final volume. Churchill originally considered the idea of the biography in 1898, returning to it in earnest in 1928. Marlborough ultimately took 10 years of research and writing and is the most substantial published work of Churchill's "wilderness years" in the 1930s, which he spent politically isolated, often at odds with both his own party and prevailing public sentiment. This decade saw Churchill pass into his sixties with his own future as uncertain as that of his nation. It is perhaps not incidental that Churchills great work of the 1930s was about a great ancestor. Churchill may have wondered more than once if the life history he was writing might ultimately eclipse his own.
Richard Langworth says "To understand the Churchill of the Second World War, the majestic blending of his commanding English with historical precedent, one has to read Marlborough." The work was well received. Two months after Volume I was published, on 12 December 1933, T.E. Lawrence wrote to Churchill: I finished it only yesterday. I wish I had not The skeleton of the book is so good. Its parts balance and the main stream flows Marlborough has the big scene-painting, the informed pictures of men, the sober comment on political method, the humour, irony and understanding of your normal writing: but beyond that it shows more discipline and strength: and great dignity. It is history, solemn and decorative." The fourth and final volume was published almost exactly one year before the outbreak of the Second World War and Churchills return to the Cabinet to reprise his First World War role as First Lord of the Admiralty. Twenty months after the final volume was published Churchill became wartime prime minister.
Reference: Cohen A97.2(II).a, Woods/ICS A40(aa), Langworth p.166.
This copy is notably clean and bright for the edition very good plus in a poor dust jacket. The plum cloth binding, which proved remarkably susceptible to sunning, is not only square and tight, but also features beautifully bright shelf presentation. The spine retains unfaded color save for small hints of sunning to the spine ends. We note only trivial shelf wear and a tiny split at the spine head. The contents are crisp and bright with no previous ownership marks and an unread feel. Spotting, endemic to the edition, is trivial, confined to a small portion of the fore edges. The fore and bottom edges are otherwise clean apart from mild age-toning. The gilt top edge remains bright. The dust jacket is first printing, but that is its sole virtue. Though price-clipped, the portion where 2nd Impression would be printed bears no such print, confirming first printing. There are significant losses all along the perimeter and a series of scuffs, scars, and holes to the rear face. We have fitted this poor jacket with a removable, clear, archival cover.
Winston Churchill's monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, was initially conceived a full 40 years before publication of the final volume. Churchill originally considered the idea of the biography in 1898, returning to it in earnest in 1928. Marlborough ultimately took 10 years of research and writing and is the most substantial published work of Churchill's "wilderness years" in the 1930s, which he spent politically isolated, often at odds with both his own party and prevailing public sentiment. This decade saw Churchill pass into his sixties with his own future as uncertain as that of his nation. It is perhaps not incidental that Churchills great work of the 1930s was about a great ancestor. Churchill may have wondered more than once if the life history he was writing might ultimately eclipse his own.
Richard Langworth says "To understand the Churchill of the Second World War, the majestic blending of his commanding English with historical precedent, one has to read Marlborough." The work was well received. Two months after Volume I was published, on 12 December 1933, T.E. Lawrence wrote to Churchill: I finished it only yesterday. I wish I had not The skeleton of the book is so good. Its parts balance and the main stream flows Marlborough has the big scene-painting, the informed pictures of men, the sober comment on political method, the humour, irony and understanding of your normal writing: but beyond that it shows more discipline and strength: and great dignity. It is history, solemn and decorative." The fourth and final volume was published almost exactly one year before the outbreak of the Second World War and Churchills return to the Cabinet to reprise his First World War role as First Lord of the Admiralty. Twenty months after the final volume was published Churchill became wartime prime minister.
Reference: Cohen A97.2(II).a, Woods/ICS A40(aa), Langworth p.166.
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Marlborough: His Life and Times [Volume 3]
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MARLBOROUGH: HIS LIFE AND TIMES - BOOK CLUB EDITION
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Marlborough His Life and Times: Book Two
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George G.Harrap, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Reprinted. 1078 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Fold-out maps. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One
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George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Reprinted. 1049 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Fold-out maps and documents. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.
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Marlborough His Life And Times: Book One
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MARLBOROUGH, HIS LIFE AND TIMES
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VOLUME 3 ONLY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935. First American Edition with the Scribner's "A". Bound in the original green fine textured cloth with gilt spine lettering and rules. The book is fine with no wear to the cloth, text bright and unmarked. The dust wrapper is heavily chipped with loss of text on spine, heavily worn but complete.
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George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1963. Reprinted. 1078 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Many folded maps. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Water stain to textblock edge. Tape marks from jacket to endpapers. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily sunned and tanned, particularly spine.
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Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One
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University of Chicago Press, 2002-09-01. Softcover. Near Fine. Second printing from this publisher. The volume has gently tipped corners and one leaf with creased corner.
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