CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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A Segunda Guerra Mundial. (The Second World War.) First Brazilian editions, eight of the ten volumes signed or inscribed by Winston Churchill. Present here are: Volumes I to IV in 6 parts, Volumes III and IV are in two parts each, and volume VI which is in two parts, a total of eight parts. The set lacks Volume V, presumed to be in two parts. There are also unsigned duplicates of Volumes I and II. Cohen states in his bibliography that despite slow sales "all twelve volumes were in fact issued", but it seems unlikely that the fifth volume would have required four volumes to complete, so we are presuming that the set in fact completed in ten parts. We have tried to clarify this with reference to institutional listings for the edition, but as WorldCat locates just a single copy of Volume I - at the University of Toronto - this has proved impossible. A very scarce edition.The inscriptions in the eight volumes are "Inscribed by Winston Churchill 1948" in the first volume; "Winston S. Churchill, 1950" in the second; the third and fourth, both in two volumes, are signed in each part with the abbreviated signature "WSChurchill" he sometimes used when signing large numbers at a sitting; volume VI is signed, "Winston S. Churchill, 1956" in the first part and "WSChurchill 1956" in the second.From the library of Emery Reves, Churchill's literary agent. Reves had been instrumental in promoting Churchill's pre-war international profile by the worldwide syndication of many of his prophetic

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