My Early Life: A Roving Commission, a wartime reprint with interesting provenance

by Winston S. Churchill

$300 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1943. Hardcover. This Second World War reprint of Winston Churchill’s autobiography, issued while he was Britain's wartime prime minister, is worth noting for both condition and provenance. Per an elaborate printed grey plate affixed to the front pastedown, this copy was a gift from British industrialist Alexander Duckham to a customer in 1943. The presentation plate reads: “Written when he certainly had no

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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