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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough, His Life and Times.
First American editions, same years as the first British. Presentation set, inscribed in first volume on the binder's blank; "To Louis Sterling from Winston S. Churchill 1947," and signed in the same place in each of the subsequent five volumes. Sir Louis Sterling (1879-1958) was a New York-born industrialist, and a pioneer in the phonographic and music industry. He was one of the original directors of EMI, a leading philanthropist, and, especially during the 1930s, a tireless worker in the effort to provide asylum for Jewish refugees. In Sterling's obituary in The Gramophone, Compton Mackenzie remarked that: "Few men have been as well loved as Louis Sterling and one may speculate whether any businessman has ever been as much loved as that most remarkable little man … " Sterling was a noted book and art collector. A superb set in contemporary binding, and an appealing association.
6 volumes octavo (224 × 150 mm). Contemporary red morocco presentation binding by Bumpus, title gilt direct to the spine, flat bands with dotted rule with fleurons, single fillet panels to the compartments and to the boards, large gilt central tool of the Marlborough arms to the upper boards, single fillet edge-roll, all edges gilt, double rules to the turn-ins. Some corners slightly bumped, pale tan-burn from the turn-ins, but overall an extremely handsomely presented set.
