CHURCHILL, Winston S.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Savrola. First British edition in book form, first impression, first state. Savrola was Churchill's only novel, the first book he undertook to write, and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39).Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900, possibly as US law required a books with foreign authors to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. The British edition appeared on 13 February, with 1,500 copies printed, including 650 sets of sheets transferred from the Colonial Library issue, which were consequently given a cancel title with the verso blank. This copy is in the first state, retaining the copyright notice on the title verso.

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