The World Crisis 1916-1918

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of The World Crisis, Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. True first editions of the first two volumes of Churchill's The World Crisis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets with light wear. His American biographer William Manchester wrote that: His masterpiece is The World Crisis, published over a period… Read more about this item

Thornton Butterworth,, [1927]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 folding facsimiles, 16 maps and charts (11 folding and a number coloured in outline), 2 folding tables and 18 maps and charts in the text, free endpapers moderately browned as usual, some light and scattered spotting; original navy blue cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, an… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 326 pp. Original burgundy cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned. Light foxing to edges of text block. "P. H. Glatfelter Company bookplate on front blank endpaper. Tiny hole to out margin of page 23/24, not affecting any text.… Read more about this item

St. John's Press, 2019. Paperback. New. 630 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.42 inches.