Winston Churchill | A Speech... in the House of Commons. August 20th, 1940 (2 copies in variant bindings)

Winston Churchill

A Speech by the Prime Minister … in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940. London: Baynard Press for HMSO, 1940, 2 copies

FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo (243 x 153mm.), 16pp., one copy in light bluish grey wrappers, the other copy in yellowish grey wrappers, both copies on watermarked paper ("Basingwerk Parchment"), light spotting (both copies), wear to extremities and discolouration of wrapper (one copy)

CHURCHILL'S ENCOMIUM ON THE RAF AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Copies of the speech were printed on different paper stocks and bound in different wrappers as a result of paper shortages.

LITERATURE:

Cohen A131.1c and d