Item #161349 WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Winston S. Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert, Larry P. Arnn.

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL.

31 volumes, comprising: 8 volumes of biography, 13 Companion Volumes, 3 volumes of The Churchill War Papers, and 7 volumes of The Churchill Documents (edited by Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn). Totalling over 42,500 pages, with 240 plates (all in the biography volumes, the frontispiece to Volume VIII coloured), numerous text illustrations, facsimiles and maps (several full and a couple double page), 3 folding tables at end of Volume I, title pages of Volumes I-VIII printed in red & black, appendices, bibliographies, indices; thick med. 8vo; mostly red cloth (the 6 Documents volumes navy cloth), spines lettered in gilt, a couple of small edge bruises, cloth sometimes lightly faded or marked, edges occasionally lightly rubbed; top edges of earlier volumes red; dust wrappers, some price-clipped, a few slightly scuffed or creased, light bleeding of cloth colour on reverse of first three volumes, edges of earlier volumes chipped or split, with a couple of repairs on reverse, UK price sticker on front flap Volume VI; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns or free endpapers of all but two volumes, bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown Volumes III & VIII, occasional light offsetting, a few leaves lightly creased, some light foxing, mainly in early volumes; Heinemann, London, 1966-2000; Hillsdale College Press, Hillsdale, Michigan, 2014-2019 [Documents]. First editions. Woods D(b)117/11 (Volumes I & II) and Appendix V (Volumes I-VI). *Churchill's son, Randolph, wrote the first two volumes of the biography; the other volumes were completed by Martin Gilbert after Randolph's sudden death in 1968. The Documents were edited by Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn, and published by Hillsdale College Press, Hillsdale, Michigan.. Item #161349

Price: $7,500.00