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Lot 112
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
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CHURCHILL, Winston (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. Publisher's stapled pale blue matt card wrappers printed in maroon (a few pale stains or creases, small separation to fold at foot, otherwise fine); quarter blue morocco folding case.
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).