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AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHURCHILL

Winston Churchull: Signed first editions of The Second World WarCHURCHILL, WINSTON S.  The Second World War

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS of Churchill's greatest work, inscribed  by Churchill on the half-title of volume one to a major figure in contemporary British politics: "Inscribed for John Dugdale by Winston S. Churchill, 1949, 'Across the Party Lines.'" Dugdale was Attlee's private secretary from 1931-1939 and a Labour M.P.

London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1948-54. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jackets. Six volumes. Occasional foxing to text (and on page with Churchill inscription), dust jackets near-fine with only minimal spine fading. $12,500.

 

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