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WINSTON CHURCHILL CENTENARY.
by Briggs, Victor
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/GD++/ND
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: New English Library. (Severn Valley Press).* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a picture of Winston. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear, some slight reading creases to spine, none to hinge. A few very small chips. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Very small inscription to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour and b/w photos & some press facsimiles within text throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. including advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Winston's life and career, born 1874 and first elected to parliament in 1900. He was a less than successful First Lord of The Admiralty in the first world war but survived his failures to lead his party to Victory in the second. This collection of articles and memoirs takes one through his life and legacy.* This is a near FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minimal cover faults reducing it to GD++.*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8855
- Title
- WINSTON CHURCHILL CENTENARY.
- Author
- Briggs, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/GD++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- N E L.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 160
- Date Published
- 1974-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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