My Early Life / My African Journey Tapa dura - 1973

London: Library of Imperial History. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0903988011 . University library withdrawal, still stiff to open; unmarked but for small blindstamp, small inkstamp to copyright page, and small nameplate to front pastedown; with numbered card laid-in; bound in full vellum with all edges bright gilt; small patch of faint sticker residue to spine; housed in tidy forest green gilt-decorated slipcase with a bump to one edge. ; The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill; Vol. 1; 521 pages .

London: Library of Imperial History / Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1973. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Octavo, printed on Archive Long Life Text paper, bound in full vellum, all edges gilt, with 24-carat gold lettering, in bumped publisher's slipcase with gilt-stamped heraldic crest. This volume contains Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill's "Preface to The Collected Works". Promoted as an edition limited to 3000 sets for the world, in fact only 1700 were sold. This volume is a "Subscriber's Proof Copy": it was sent to R. Hunt as a sample volume, and it may lack some textual corrections, and may have redrawn maps. It was directed to be returned to the publisher after examination. Its binding matches the published volumes. Only complete sets of 34 + 4 volumes were to be sold by the publisher. The General Editor for this set was Frederick Woods, the bibliographer of Churchill [ See the Woods bibliography p. 391].

London : Library of Imperial History, 1973. First centenary edition. Hardcover. Fine copy bound in full, gilt-blocked vellum over boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The collected works of Sir Winston Churchill ; vol.1. Physical description: 1 v.(various pagings), plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. 'My early life' originally published, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. 'My African journey' originally published, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Subjects: History - Collected works. Churchill, Winston - 1874-1965.