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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Winston S. Churchill
1956-1958
The Educational Book Company Ltd : London
9.5" by 6.5"
xxviii, 458; xvi, 381; xix, 360; xvi, 352pp
SUMMARY
A smart complete Chartwell edition of Winston Churchills popular history of Britain, published the same year as the firsts.
Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs2 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
The first printings of the "Chartwell" Edition, being the first illustration edition published simultaneously with the more widely accessible Cassell first editions.
Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in the publishers original cloth, with red spine title labels.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples offers a broad history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world.
Churchill began this work during the early 1930s, but did not complete it until after his final retirement as prime minister in 1956-1958, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts.
Across the volumes he covers from Caesars invasions up to the end of the Second Boer War.
With twenty-four plates to volumes I-III, thirty-two plates to volume IV, and numerous in-text illustrations to each.
Collated, complete.
Volume I - The Birth of Britain
Volume II - The New World
Volume III - The Age of Revolution
Volume IV - The Great Democracies
CONDITION
Uniformly bound in the publishers original cloth. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and some marks and dusting to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with a few scattered spots to the endpapers.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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