Onwards to Victory, pre-publication review copy of the first edition with the publisher's review slip

by Winston S. Churchill

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a pre-publication publisher's review copy of the U.S. first edition, only printing in collector-worthy condition. Laid in, we were pleased to discover an original Little, Brown & Company review slip. Addressed “To the literary editor:” the slip specifies “This book will be published on:” with an ink-stamped date of “JUL 13 1944”. Three requests are printed: “Do not review before publication date. Send tear sheets or clippings of your review. Do not quote more than 500 words without special permission.” The volume is in near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is beautifully bright and clean with sharp corners. We note only trivial wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are likewise notably clean with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. The dust jacket is neatly price-clipped with light wear to extremities and tiny chip losses to the spine head and corners, but nonetheless notably clean. Quite unusually for the edition is a bright, unfaded red spine panel. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. Onwards to Victory is the fourth volume of Winston Churchill's war speeches, containing speeches from 1943. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Churchill cautioned, invoking, for his

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 1944
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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