CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The Great War. (4 VOLUMES - FIRST EDITION THUS - 1934-5)

AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston S. 

TITLE: The Great War. Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps.

PUBLISHER: London: Home Library Book Company, n.d., (1934-5).

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION THUS. 4 vols., profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps, bound in the publisher's original gilt and blind stamped red leatherette, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, top edges gilt.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, mild rubbing to corners, bookplate to the endleaf of each volume, otherwise no previous ownership markings, overall a VERY GOOD set.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This is the third issue of the first illustrated (albeit abridged) edition of The World Crisis, first published in 6 volumes between 1923-31. Langworth calls this edition, which was an installment mail offer by the Home Library Book Company in conjunction with Newnes, announced late 1934 and running into 1935, "the most elaborate and final variation of The Great War". "All variants of The Great War contain the same pages, profusely illustrated and captioned.[They] certainly offer wonderful graphics to support the author's towering prose, and, since they constitute the first illustrated World Crisis, the serious collector really ought to own one" (Langworth, pp.119-120). (Langworth, pp.118-120).