CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan, 1906. 2 volumes, 8° (219 x 140mm). Frontispiece in each volume, 16 plates. (A few light spots.) Original cloth gilt (spines lightly sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped). Provenance: Edwina and Piers Dixon (Churchill's granddaughter and son-in-law, presentation inscriptions and bookplate in each volume) -- sold at Sotheby's, 15 July 1998, lot 123. First English edition, PRESENTATION COPY TO CHURCHILL'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW. The books are signed three times, on the pastedown and half-title in vol. I and title of vol. II (signatures on half-title and title smeared). Churchill signed the books shortly before his 90th birthday in 1964. Woods A8(a).
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan, 1906. 2 volumes, 8° (219 x 140mm). Frontispiece in each volume, 16 plates. (A few light spots.) Original cloth gilt (spines lightly sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped). Provenance: Edwina and Piers Dixon (Churchill's granddaughter and son-in-law, presentation inscriptions and bookplate in each volume) -- sold at Sotheby's, 15 July 1998, lot 123. First English edition, PRESENTATION COPY TO CHURCHILL'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW. The books are signed three times, on the pastedown and half-title in vol. I and title of vol. II (signatures on half-title and title smeared). Churchill signed the books shortly before his 90th birthday in 1964. Woods A8(a).

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan, 1906. 2 volumes, 8° (219 x 140mm). Frontispiece in each volume, 16 plates. (A few light spots.) Original cloth gilt (spines lightly sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped). Provenance: Edwina and Piers Dixon (Churchill's granddaughter and son-in-law, presentation inscriptions and bookplate in each volume) -- sold at Sotheby's, 15 July 1998, lot 123. First English edition, PRESENTATION COPY TO CHURCHILL'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW. The books are signed three times, on the pastedown and half-title in vol. I and title of vol. II (signatures on half-title and title smeared). Churchill signed the books shortly before his 90th birthday in 1964. Woods A8(a).

The World Crisis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Volume I only, 6 maps and 2 facsimile letters. Original cloth gilt (spine sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY 'inscribed for H. W. O'Melveny by Winston S. Churchill 27 Sept. 1929' -- Lowell Roy Smith (exlibris). (3)