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Lot 133

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 - 5,000
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$8,320
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[Churchill, Winston] The Legion Book


London: Privately Printed (at the Curwen Press), 1929. First and limited deluxe edition, #84 of only 100 printed copies for private distribution by the Prince of Wales, and with five pages signed by all of the work's contributors, including Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse, Eric Gill, Stanley Spencer, Charles Ricketts, W. Heath Robinson, Laura Knight, William Nicholson, Paul Nash, David Low, Rebecca West, John Lavery, Max Beerbohm, Vita Sackville-West, Hillaire Belloc, Mark Gertler, Edith Sitwell, Jacob Epstein, W.H. Davies, Aldous Huxley, and others; additional signatures facing colotypes No. 3 and 20. Large 4to. Edited by Captain H. Cotton Minchin. Illustrated with color frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, 16 plates in various printed techniques (some signed by the artist), 32 collotypes, and with initials printed in red. Publisher's full deluxe pigskin over boards, decorated in blind and in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; by Charles Ricketts; in brown cloth fall-down-back box.

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