GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “Atlantic Meeting,” subtitled “An Account of Mr. Churchill’s Voyage in H.M.S. Prince of Wales, in August, 1941, and the Conference with President Roosevelt which Resulted in the Atlantic Charter,” by H. V. [Henry Vollam] Morton (1892-1979), with SEVENTEEN vintage photographic  illustrations, and route maps of the North Atlantic Ocean to the endpapers.

It was published by Methuen & Co., Ltd., of The Strand, London, in 1943, and is the FIRST EDITION (stated).

When Mr. Wendell Willkie arrived in London in January 1941, he handed to Mr. Churchill a verse (“Sale on, O Ship of State…etc”) from Longfellow written in the President’s handwriting together with Mr. Roosevelt’s comment that “it applies to your people as it does to us.” 

In August, 1941, Mr. Churchill took with him from England cards on which this verse was illuminated, and after the Atlantic Charter had been approved on August 12^th, both statesmen signed the cards and each kept a copy as a souvenir of the Atlantic Meeting.  The reproduction in colour as the frontispiece of this book is from the card then in possession of Churchill.

The contents include:

·       Introduction

·       I am Warned

·       The Prime Minister’s Train

·       H.M.S. “Prince of Wales”

·       “Pimpernel Smith”

·       We Lose Our Escort

·       The Map Room

·       A Battleship in War-Time

·       A Rehearsal

·       The Council of Placentia

·       Church Parage

·       We Go Ashore

·       The Atlantic Charter

·       Convoy

·       Iceland

·       Home Again

·       Appendix

□      The Atlantic Charter

□      Mr. Churchill’s Description of the Atlantic Meeting – august 24^th, 1941

□      List of Officers, H.M.S. “Prince of Wales” – August, 1941

·       Index

The illustrations include:

·       H.M.S. Prince of Wales

·       Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Sir John Dill, Mr. Churchill, Sir Wilfrid Freeman

·       President Roosevelt, His Son, Captain Elliott Roosevelt

·       Mr. Churchill and Some American Sailors

·       Mr. Churchill Restraining the Ship’s Cat from Boarding the President’s Destroyer

·       The Anglo-American Church Parade

·       Sir Alexander Cadogan, Sir Wilfrid Freeman, Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Sir John Dill, Lord Cherwell

·       Mr. Churchill in Iceland Saluting the American Colours

·       Mr. Churchill and Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt

·       Mr. and Mrs. Churchill at King’s Cross Station on the Prime Minister’s Return from the Atlantic Meeting

…and much more…

The book measures 7.5 inches x 5.2 inches and has 160 pages.

The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with wear and tears/loss/tatty to the spine of the original dust-jacket (virtually split in two save some old repair; not price-clipped).  The binding is used but good with no loose or missing pages.  There is a previous owner’s book-plate at the front (blank, so contains no owner names), and no other ink or pencil markings in the book.  The original cloth hardback cover is in good condition for its age, save a bumped bottom rear corner.  The gold on the spine is dull.

A wonderfully illustrated vintage FIRST EDITION.

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