Winston S. Churchill | The War Speeches. London: Cassell and Co., 1941-1946

Winston S. Churchill

The War Speeches. New York: G.P. Putnam Sons; Little, Brown and Co.; Simon and Schuster, 1941-1946

7 volumes, 8vo. Into Battle: Original blue cloth, original dust jacket; vintage booklabel to front pastedown, fore-edges lightly foxed, some chipping to edges of jacket, including the head and tail of spine, closed tear along the lower spine fold with minor loss extending to the rear jacket face, jacket price clipped. Second state of the first edition (as per Cohen), with numerals present on page 78. — The Unrelenting Struggle: Original blue cloth, original third-printing dust jacket; fore-edges lightly foxed, minor chips and loss to lower right corner of upper panel and head of spine panel, loss of approximately one-inch to rear jacket panel, some creasing. Second state, with the correctly printed numerals on page 281. — The End of the Beginning: Minor dampstaining. Original blue cloth, original dust jacket; edges of jacket chipped with loss at head and tail of spine, several short closed tears. — Onwards to Victory: Original blue cloth, original dues jacket; minor loss to front jacket panel near spine head. — The Dawn of Liberation: Original blue cloth, original dust jacket; spine panel of jacket darkened, chips to head of spine, some chipping with loss along edged. — Victory: Original blue cloth, original dust jacket; jacket with minor loss to head and tail of spine panel, some chipping to edges, scuffing to lower jacket panel. Second state, with the numeral 1 present on page 177. — Secret Session Speeches: Original blue cloth, original dust jacket, with extra-illustrated vintage newspaper cuttings relating to Churchill, including vintage reviews of this book, tipped-onto the front and rear endpapers; minor fading to jacket, spin panel of which sunned, price-clipped.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, IN SCARCE ORIGINAL JACKETS

Seven individual speech compilation volumes were published yearly in both the U.K. and the U.S., collecting Churchill's speech output, beginning in 1941.

REFERENCE:

Cohen A142.1.b, A172.1.b, A183.1.a, A194.1.a, A214.1.a, A223.1.b, A227.1.a; Woods A66- A114