6 volumes, 8vo (210 x 140 mm). Numerous maps, charts, and facsimiles. Original cloth; unclipped dust jackets (rubbing, closed tear on front flap Vol. III); original wooden box. 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS IN PUBLISHER’S WOODEN BOX IN THE FIRST STATE DUST JACKETS displaying $6.00 price, preceding first British edition by six months. Publication of Churchill’s monumental history of the Second World War was delayed in Britain due to last-minute changes Churchill wished to make to the British edition, as he considered that to be the definitive history. Woods A123(a).