THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
In six volumes, complete. Totalling over 4,500 pages, with numerous maps (several folding, some printed in red & black or red, blue & black), diagrams, tipped-in errata and author's note slips in Volume I, appendices, indices; demy 8vo; later half red morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, marbled papered boards; top edges red (faded) Volumes III-VI; later endpapers with the original 'WSC' patterned endpapers laid on (upper endpapers only), all volumes bound without the preliminary blank leaves; bottom fore-corner of a few leaves faintly creased, occasional light foxing; Cassell, London, 1948-1954. First U.K. trade editions. Cohen A240.4b (Baylis printing, although the signatures are signed with letters, not numbers); Woods A123b and Appendix I. *Churchill's bibliographers both note the complicated publishing history of this work, Cohen describing it as a 'nightmare'. Item #183754
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