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WINSTON CHURCHILL: The struggle for survival 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran
by Churchill, Winston S.; Moran, Lord
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1966. Pp. xviii+830(last blank), frontispiece plus 21 plates, appendices, index; thick med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, the cloth flecked, with spots of fading on spine; top edges maroon; dust wrapper, browned and soiled, edges worn with several small splits and chips, the laminate lifting slightly along backstrip folds; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, name stamp on upper free endpaper, the edges of leaves lightly browned and foxed, top fore-corner of several leaves creased; Constable, London, 1966. First edition. Woods p. 347 *Charles McMoran Wilson, first Baron Moran of Manton, became Churchill's doctor in 1940. From 1941 to 1950 he was President of the Royal College of Physicians.
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- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161259
- Title
- WINSTON CHURCHILL: The struggle for survival 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran
- Author
- Churchill, Winston S.; Moran, Lord
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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