Churchill, Winston S.. THE GREAT WAR. George Newnes Limited, London, 1933.

Price: US$3346.04 + shipping

Description: Fully illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. Complete in 26 fortnightly parts, totalling over 1,650 pages, numerous illustrations, maps, appendices, index; cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers (each featuring a different illustration), with some minor splits and creases; housed within two solander boxes of qr. blue morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, blue silk boards, faintly soiled, with a couple of tiny edge bruises; the parts with a few minor paper faults in margins; George Newnes, London, n.d. [1933-4]. First illustrated edition. See Cohen A69.9.b; Woods A31a, footnote. *Together with an additional copy of Part 21, which is signed by Churchill on the first page of text (wrappers lightly worn, backstrip slightly chipped), contained within a dark blue cloth portfolio. Issued fortnightly by Newnes from September 1933 to October 1934, this illustrated edition of Churchill's history of the First World War contains a new Foreword by the author, dated August 1933. First published in book form as The World Crisis (five volumes in six, 1923-1931).

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