Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert - Winston S. Churchill

London, Heinemann, 1966-1976. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated set of the first five volume of Winston Churchill's authorized biography, detailing his life from birth to the start of the Second World War. The first five volumes of the official biography of Winston Churchill of the complete eight volume set. Three consecutive volumes of the authorised autobiography of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with volumes covering the years 1874 to 1916. Written by Randolph Spencer-Churchill, an English journalist, writer and politician who was the only son of Winston S. Churchill, and Martin Gilbert, a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. These are the only official biographies of the former Prime Minister and WWI veteran's life. In May 1960, five years before his death, he wrote to his son: 'I should be happy that you should write my official biography when the time comes. But I must ask you to defer this until after my death. I would not like to release my papers piecemeal, and I think that you should wait for the time being and then get all your material from my own Archives&apos. This set includes: Winston S. Churchill: Youth 1874-1900, 1966. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, eight maps, and three folding tables to the rear. Collated complete. Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman 1901-1914, 1968. Later printing. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and two maps. Collated complete. Winston S. Churchill: Volume III 1914-1916, 1977. Later printing. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and twenty maps. Collated complete. Winston S. Churchill: Volume IV, 1975. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and thirteen maps. Collated complete. Winston S. Churchill: Volume V, 1976. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-two plates. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrappers are also very smart with minor wear to the extremities and sunning to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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