JOAN OF ARC: Her Life as Told by Winston Churchill in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Pictures by Lauren Ford. Pp. 48(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 16 illustrations (13 full and 3 double page), one initial printed in blue; f'cap. 8vo; white cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, small chip at head of backstrip and faint signs of sticker removal near publisher's imprint on same; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1969. First edition. Cohen A279. *An unusual and scarce Churchill item, the text being the passages about Joan of Arc in Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 'Even though she was quintessentially French, and her death was one of England's most shameless crimes, it is evident that Churchill considered her one of the most influential figures in the moulding of the great English-speaking tradition that he so admired' [Editorial Note, p. 5]. Lauren Ford (1891-1973) was an American artist whose work hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among other galleries. Item #179520
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