Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert - Winston S. Churchill with Companion Volumes

London, William Heinemann, 1967-1983. First edition. Cloth. A collection of first edition part of the companions to Winston S. Churchill's authorised biography, as well as three volumes of the biography itself. Twelve volumes. First edition. 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 1917 to 1941. With nine volumes of the companion texts issued, serving as a definitive biography based on documents reserved exclusively for these works. 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. This set includes: Winston S. Churchill Companion Volume I, Parts 1 and 2, 1967. Winston S. Churchill Companion Volume II, Parts 1, 2 and 3, 1969. Winston S. Churchill Companion Volume IV, Parts 1, 2 and 3, 1977. With thirteen in-text maps to each volume. Winston S. Churchill Companion Volume V, Part I, 1979. Winston S. Churchill Volume IV: 1917-1922, 1975. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifty-nine black-and-white photographs on plates, and thirteen maps. Winston S. Churchill Volume V: 192201939, 1976. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-seven black-and-white photographs on plates. Winston S. Churchill Volume VI: 1939-1941, 1983. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-three black-and-white photographs on plates, and twenty-two maps. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original dust wrappers are price-clipped other than Companion Volume IV, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Companion Volume V, Part I, Winston S. Churchill Volume V, and Winston S. Churchill Volume VI which remain unclipped. Wrappers are also smart with minor wear to the extremities and light sunning to the spines. The odd small mark or crease to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Newspaper clippings pasted to the rear pastedown of Companion Volume IV Part 1. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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