Set of first-edition volumes of Churchill's The Second World War.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Winston Churchill (British).</li><li>London: Cassell &amp; Co., 1948–54.</li><li>Bound in half green morocco over cloth boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and heraldic lion motif on spine.</li></ul>

The Second World War

Finely bound <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Winston%2520Churchill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Churchill's</a>The Second World War.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Winston Churchill (English).</li><li>The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring, Triumph and Tragedy.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassell &amp; Co. Ltd,&nbsp;1948–1954.</li><li>pp. xv; 640; pp. xvii; 684; pp. x; 818; pp. xviii; 917; pp. xviii; 673; pp. xviii; 716.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes numerous maps and plans, some folding.</li><li>Elegantly bound in green half morocco, with gilt titles and lion-rampant tooling to spines, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt.</li></ul> This is not history; this is my case, the author’s most famous work continuing on from his earlier history of the First World War, The World Crisis. The two together form, in Churchill's opinion, a comprehensive history of a second Thirty Years War.

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> set of The Second World War by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Winston+Churchill&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winston Churchill</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6 volumes.</li><li>Winston Churchill (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassel and Co. Ltd,&nbsp;1953.</li><li>Signed by Winston Churchill. </li><li>Inscribed with blue ink to Howard Bayne by Alfred Charles Bossom, English Conservative Party Politican, his brother-in-law. </li><li>Bound by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe, London, full blue Morocco leather covers, gilt borders on covers, gilt emblem on front board, ornate gilt decoration on spine panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, raised bands.</li></ul>

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