Author: CHURCHILL Winston S.
Title: Marlborough. His Life and Times. [Two-Volume Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST TWO-VOLUME EDITION
Description: Harrap,, [1947]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, 14 facsimiles and 196 maps and plans (a number double-page) in the text; original maroon buckram, upper boards with Marlborough arms blocked in gilt, gilt backs, maroon tops, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. This first two-volume edition is an entirely new setting (not merely a rearrangement) of the original four-volume edition of 1933-34. It is unabridged and retains all the maps and plans of the first edition, but the illustrations are reduced to the two frontispieces. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Woods A40(d); ICS A40(d).

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