Churchill His Paintings - SIGNED by Lady Spencer-Churchill [Winston Churchill]

by COOMBS, David; Clementine Spencer-Churchill (Foreword)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to. Pp. 272. Frontis. c. 1920 self-portrait. Illustrated with 73 color and 429 b&w reproductions. Introduction and paintings catalogued by David Coombs. Front free endpaper signed with a fountain pen by Clementine Spencer-Churchill. Bound in dark green cloth covered boards, spine titles in gilt in black panel: leaf edges minimally toned. In the laminated dust jacket with original price 84s; intact: spine head chipped. "Illustrating virtually all of [Churchill's] paintings known to have survived, this book forms a kind of pictorial diary of Sir Winston's private life." Lady Spencer-Churchill's signature is also reproduced in facsimile beneath her foreword. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival protector.

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Year: 1967
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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