My Early Life, a publisher's pre-publication proof copy

by Winston S. Churchill

$2,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing, first state, pre-publication proof copy. Wraps. This improbable rarity is a proof copy of Winston Churchill's autobiography of his early life. This is the only proof copy we have ever offered and one of only two of which we are aware.This proof copy and the only other known to us are bound in plain, unprinted gray card wraps. While entirely

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