CHURCHILL (W.S).: The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete Set] , Odhams, [1939]2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, and 6 facsimiles (2 double-page and 4 full-page), 39 maps, charts and diagrams (19 double-page and 20 full-page) and 12 smaller maps, charts and diagrams all in the text; original blue pebbled cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, blue tops, backstrips lightly sunned, covers lightly age-worn else a very good, bright, clean set. First two-volume edition, containing the unabridged text of the original four volumes augmented with revisions from the 1931 re-issue. For this edition, Churchill prepared a new Foreword to Vol. I and an updated Appendix I in Vol. II. In order to achieve the compression, the publishers provided slightly fewer and smaller maps. See Woods, p.46; ICS A31f. (Book ref. 19820) £88.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Island Books , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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