CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Marlborough, His Life and Times. London: George Harrap, 1947. 2 volumes, 8° (215 x 145mm). Frontispiece in each volume, folding maps, facsimile letters. Original plum cloth, arms of Marlborough stamped in gilt on front covers, gilt spine, top edge plum, later half morocco boxes lettered in gilt on spines (a few light stains, light spotting to fore-edges).

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Marlborough, His Life and Times. London: George Harrap, 1947. 2 volumes, 8° (215 x 145mm). Frontispiece in each volume, folding maps, facsimile letters. Original plum cloth, arms of Marlborough stamped in gilt on front covers, gilt spine, top edge plum, later half morocco boxes lettered in gilt on spines (a few light stains, light spotting to fore-edges).

INSCRIBED COPY, front free endpaper of vol. I 'Inscribed for Ian Mathieson by Winston Churchill 1948'; vol. II with Churchill's initials on the free endpaper. The work was first published in 1933-38 and appeared for the first time in two volumes in this 1947 edition. (2)