WINSTON CHURCHILL IN PEACE AND WAR
by A. MacCallum Scott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: George Newnes Ltd., 1916. First English Updated Edition (Za6) (R6). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (162 pages). This is a very good First Edition copy of the updated World War I edition issued by the author, A. MacCallum Scott, of his 1905 biography, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL; the very first Churchill biography ever published. New material includes a defense of Churchill’s Dardanelles strategy. The cloth here is lightly spotted and mottled, the binding is square and tight. The contents are fine but the front free endpaper has been excised and the rear free endpaper has been overwritten with ink notations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chartwell Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141975
- Title
- WINSTON CHURCHILL IN PEACE AND WAR
- Author
- A. MacCallum Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (with Dust Jacket)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Updated Edition (Za6) (R6)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Size
- 8vo (162 pages)
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- First Edition
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