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Lot 179
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$945
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Lot Description
CHURCHILL, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir. Marlborough: His Life and Times. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933-1938.
6 volumes, 8vo. Numerous plates, illustrations, and maps. Original cloth; dust jackets (minor rubbing, very light staining to some spines, circular stain to front panel of Vol. VI).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, FIRST STATES with Scribner’s “A” on copyright pages of each. In writing this biography of his ancestor, Churchill hoped to “recall this great shade from the past…[and] make him living and intimate to modern eyes.” Woods A40(b).