England, inscribed

by the author's wife, Lady Diana Cooper, to an Austrian refugee who fled Hitler's Anschluss by Duff Cooper

$350 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Westminster, London: Printed by Metchim & Son, Ltd., 1940. First edition, first printing. Wraps. This fragile and scarce wraps-bound early Second World War booklet publishes Duff Cooper’s 23 April 1940 speech at the St. George’s Day Celebration Luncheon held by The Royal Society of St. George at Grosvenor House, London. This copy is inscribed by Cooper’s wife in four lines on the upper front cover:

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