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My Early Life. A Roving Commission. by Churchill, Winston S - 1965

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My Early Life. A Roving Commission. by Churchill, Winston S - 1965

My Early Life. A Roving Commission.

by Churchill, Winston S

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London: Odhams Press Limited, 1965. Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with maps and portraits. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Packed with adventure and incidents, Winston Churchill's first 25 years were spent working as a soldier and a war correspondent in India, South Africa and Cuba. Churchill evokes the golden age before 1914 in his autobiography.
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  • Publisher Odhams Press Limited
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1965
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New York: Doubleday , 1986 Clean and tight, appears unread. Very mild wear to the jacket.
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by CHURCHILL Winston S

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Macmillan [&] Reprint Society, 1944. Book club edn. 8vo. Original tan cloth with gilt lettered label (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 392, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions).
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My Early Life A Roving Commission

by Winston S. Churchill

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Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. Third Impression. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright tanned with visible foxing. Heavy tanning to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean.
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My Early Life A Roving Commission

by Winston S. Churchill

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Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. New Impression. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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My Early Life A Roving Commission

by Winston S. Churchill

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Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. New Impression. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Orange marking to both board edges.
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My Early Life a Roving commission.

by Winston S. Churchill

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London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1930. 392 pages including author's preface, maps and illustrations and index. Coarse plum cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine (5 gilt title/author lines to front). 12 titles listed to verso of fly title.Spine is faded and has some damp spots. Lower page edges are uncut. Some foxing to prelims and considerable foxing to page edges and to some margins but not affecting contents. Front gutter cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.. First Edition Second State. Cloth. Good Minus. 8vo.
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My Early Life. A Roving Commission

My Early Life. A Roving Commission

by CHURCHILL, Winston S

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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930.. First edition, second state. 8vo. 392 pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, contemporary ownership inscription of an A[?] Wentworth-Day of 61 Pall Mall SW1 to the front pastedown. Frontispiece, 16 plates, including a folding map, and 11 illustrations in the text Sunning to the spine, occasional marking to the covers, some mild foxing, else a decent set. Woods, A37(a). Langworth, pp. 132-133. There are 12 other works by Churchill listed on the half title verso and is bound in smooth cloth with five lines of gilt lettering to the upper board.
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MY EARLY LIFE a Roving Commission

by Churchill, Winston S

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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. Hardcover; 392 pages. FIRST EDITION. Pink clothbound hardcovers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Heavily sunned spine. Little wear around edges. Bumped corners. The head of the spine is fraying. Bookplate on ffep, otherwise clean. The pages are yellowing but still quite bright, clear, and clean. Includes many black & white photo plates, and a fold-out map of South Africa inbetween p. 366 and p. 367. Small rip to the dedication page. No jacket. VG-. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket.
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