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Title
Portrait
Of
Churchill
By
Guy Eden
With a
Foreword by
The Right
Hon. Brendan Bracken M.P.
First
Lord of the Admiralty
With 15
Illustrations
[FIRST Edition
– Publisher’s Original Binding – With Torn Dust Jacket – Facsimile Signed
Letter from Churchill with the Original Envelope]
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Author
Guy Eden
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Year of Publication
[1945]
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Publisher
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For
full description see below - after all photographs
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Description:
London: Hutchinson &
Co., FIRST Edition, 1940s [1945].
Publisher’s original
cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine, gently worn and rubbed, the
original dustjacket, worn, rubbed and torn. Illustrated with 14 photographic
plates.
A facsimile letter from
Churchill’s office on House of Commons headed paper in the original Post Office
stamped envelope (dated 28 – IX – 45) addressed to a Mrs Midgeley.
The message reads:
“I thank you sincerely
for your very kind message to me which I have received and read with great
pleasure.
Winston S. Churchill
1945”
Pagination: 144pp.
Provenance – envelope
letter addressed to a Mrs Midgeley.
Approximately 7 ½ inches
tall (19cm).
Externally
- Spine – good condition
– gilt titles, worn and rubbed.
- Joints – good
condition – sound, rubbed.
- Corners – good
condition – bumped and worn.
- Boards – good
condition – full cloth, marked and worn.
- Page edges – good condition
– top edges darkened, all tanned.
- Dust Jacket – poor
condition – torn, and rubbed with loss – see photos.
- See above and
photos.
Internally
- Hinges – good
condition – sound.
- Paste downs – good
condition – tanned.
- End papers – good
condition – tanned.
- Title – good
condition – tanned.
- Pages – good
condition – tanned, some foxing.
- Binding – good
condition – worn.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1940s
Binding: Hardback
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