The End of the Beginning, a scarce and interesting wartime publisher's fine binding variant

by Winston S. Churchill

$250 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1943. First edition, second printing. Half leather. Here is a scarce and interesting half-leather fine binding of the third of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill’s seven war speech volumes.“In December 1943, some second impressions were bound in navy half Morocco and blue cloth, top edges gilt for corporate presentation. Many bear a gift bookplate from the

• Binding: Leather

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