CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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Liberalism and the Social Problem. First edition, the finest of the three known copies in dust jacket.In his 1998 guide to collecting Churchill, Richard Langworth wrote, "only one fully jacketed copy of Liberalism and the Social Problem is known in the world" (p. 91). That copy, in considerably worse condition, was in the collection of Churchillian dealer Mark Weber; we sold it in 2017 following his death, and it remains with the private buyer. When he wrote the guide, this copy was unknown to Langworth, though he was aware of the only other copy in jacket - that held by Ronald I. Cohen, which Cohen described in his bibliography of Churchill as only a "partial" jacket (p. 174).Liberalism and the Social Problem collected the speeches of Churchill, then a Liberal MP, on pressing issues such as the conciliation of South Africa, imperial preference, labour exchanges, and unemployment insurance. The jacket is notable for its use of Churchill's portrait on the front panel, at a time when most jackets were purely typographical or reproduced the design on the binding.

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