Step By Step, finely bound
$1,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1939. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is a finely bound British first edition, first printing of an important Churchill title - his last book published before the outbreak of the Second World War. The half-leather green Morocco goatskin binding (deferential to the original green cloth) features a hubbed spine with blind-rule framed raised bands, twin, gilt-ruled, dark red title and author spine labels, and a gilt lion rampant in each unprinted spine compartment. The sides are green buckram with double blind ruled transitions. The contents are bound with green and red silk head and tail bands. The cloth of the original cover and spine is bound in at the rear. Condition is near fine overall. The binding is square, clean, tight, and unfaded, with no discernible wear. Incidental blemishes seem inherent to the goatskin. The first printing contents are clean, with no previous ownership marks, no spotting, and modest age-toning. Only the page edges show any appreciable toning and soiling. Both maps are present and fully intact, the folding map following the text properly folded. Step By Step includes 82 newspaper articles focused on foreign affairs written by Churchill between March 1936 and May 1939 at the end of his "wilderness years". Many of them, of course, contain his warnings and predictions about Nazi Germany. Step By Step was published in June 1939. Only a few short months later, on the first day of September 1939, Germa
- Publisher: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd.
- Year: 1939
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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