4 volumes, 4to. Plates and illustrations. Original salmon morocco by Leighton-Straker, with Marlborough's arms stamped in gilt on front covers, spine compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine of Vol. I a little darkened with slight dampstaining in top panels, a little rubbing and wear to spine ends and extremities).

 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 155 copies signed by Churchill, of which 150 were for sale. The trade edition of 17,000 copies was issued in plum buckram. Both the limited and the trade edition of 1933 form the first English edition. According to Woods the limited edition was bound in orange morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, but others are recorded by Leighton-Straker as here. Woods A40(a).