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CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). A Speech by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940. [London: Bayard Press for the Ministry of Information, 1940].
8vo. Original stapled pale-blue card wrappers, printed in maroon (faded, some soiling and spotting, nearly separated at fold).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with publisher's code and date ("8/40") on last leaf. “If the Gettysburg Address is one of the most moving statements of democracy confronted by tragedy, Churchill's historic exhortations are its equal in their ringing assertion of democracy confronting the seemingly irresistible forces of tyranny" (PMM 424). Woods A60(a).
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto