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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough.
His Life and Times.
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1933–8
Stock code: 46769
Price: £1,750 Currency Conversion
First editions, first impressions. "Marlborough is huge... heavily documented, comprehensive. No future historian can hope to avoid indebtedness, and no unprofessional reader can fail to be moved by the grandeur of the vision, the language and the myth. Sonority piles on sonority, vista succeeds vista, magnificence follows magnificence" (Woods - Artillery of Words).
4 volumes, octavo, contemporary scarlet full morocco, raised bands to spines, titles gilt to spines, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, plans and maps. A little mottled on the boards and some light shelf-wear, light toning, a handsome set.
