CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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Lord Randolph Churchill. First edition of Churchill's biography of his father, the Conservative statesman Lord Randolph Churchill.This copy is in a binding variant that is not in Cohen. The standard issue was uncut with the Marlborough arms on the front in gilt, and there was an issue for the Times Book Club which was trimmed and in a plainer binding, with their logo on the spine. This is possibly a remainder binding - Cohen confirmed to us it was unknown to him.Lord Randolph was one of the leading political figures of the 1880s, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, and Secretary of State for India. Winston's relationship with his father was respectful rather than warm; however, "when Winston later reread his father's letters, he realized how much he had thought and cared for him... [and] was determined to vindicate his memory. In 1906 he published a two-volume biography of his father, which remains the most detailed written up to the end of the twentieth century. Winston believed that he owed everything to his father" (ODNB).

• Printing: later

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