The World Crisis: 1916-1918, Part I
$250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, third printing, of the third volume of Winston Churchill's monumental history of The First World War, elusive thus in the original dust jacket. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the War to end all wars. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931, with the first four volumes spanning the war years 1911-1918 and the final two volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). The events of the 1916-1918 volumes, of which this is the first, include Churchill's time at the Front, his return to the Cabinet, and Armistice Day, marking the formal end of hostilities. This third printing was issued March 1927, the same month as the first and second printings. The dust jacket is nearly identical to that of the first printing, differing only in replacement of the six-line blurb at the center of each front face with five lines of review quotes from Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. The volume is bound in navy cloth identical to that of the first printing, though the volumes use thinner sheets than the first printing, making the volume narrower. Content is virtually identical, differing from the first printing onl
- Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Limited
- Year: 1927
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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