Winston Spencer Churchill
by A. MacCallum Scott
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Workington , Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1905. Now rare. So far as I have been able to establish this is the earliest biography of Churchill, written when he was in his early thirties, at the end of his first period as an M.P. (for Oldham). Hardcover. Used - Fair/Good: Methuen, 1905. First Edition. Externally: Somewhat grubby appearance but the front and back boards are undamaged apart from slight shelf wearand two or three what look like ink marks. The spine is darlened with age and rubbed top and bottom. Please refer to photographs. Internally; The binding is firm and the text clean and unmarked though showing signs of age on the edges. No marks of previous ownership. 16 Illustrations: All present in good condition, though two of them are slightly loose, but not detached.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Murray Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000150
- Title
- Winston Spencer Churchill
- Author
- A. MacCallum Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 269
- Size
- 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Political, Historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; History; Churchill;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
David Murray Books
Biblio member since 2021
Workington , Cumbria
About David Murray Books
I am now a one-person business, having previously sold online jointly with my late wife. After several years break I am starting again and the inventory will build slowly. Initial emphases will be history, Northern England, theology and Africa, with a mixture of others from time to time.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....