CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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The First Collected Works [together with: The Collected Essays]. Centenary Limited Edition. First collected edition of Churchill's work, reproducing all of his 50 books in 34 volumes, with 4 further volumes of essays. "The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19,000 pages, weighing 90 lbs, taking up 4.5 ft of shelf space. To achieve publication, 11 publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights" (Langworth, p. 362).A former owner has discarded the publisher's slipcases, which are often a bugbear due to their tightness and propensity for fusing together.

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