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London: Thornton Butterworth, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A neat and attractive early printing set of the six volumes in this series. Original matching dark blue cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to spines, and in blind to fronts. Covers are very clean and bright, with moderate handling and shelf-wear, and a little bubbling to cloth at edges, more so on Vol. V. There is some toning to edges and endpapers, with some moderate scattered foxing to text, and an old owner's blind-stamp to bottom of each title-page except in the last volume. Otherwise all clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really sound and handsome set. Illustrated -- all maps, folding and otherwise, and plates present as listed. [printing rundown: Vol. I - 3rd ed. 4th imp.; Vol. II - 2nd ed. 3rd imp.; Vol. III - 4th imp.; Vol. IV - 4th imp.; Vol. V - 1st imp.; Vol. VI - 1st imp.].

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923 - 1931. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a full, first edition, first printing, jacketed set of Winston Churchill’s history of the First World War. Notably, this set includes the extravagantly rare first printing 1911-1914 dust jacket. This is unequivocally the best full set in first printing dust jackets of which we are aware. Consider it a virtual certainty that no better set exists. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931, the first four volumes spanning the war years 1911-1918 and the final two volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). This U.S. edition preceded its British counterpart, rendering it the true first… Read More