THE WORLD CRISIS. Five volumes in six (complete)

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. Volume One: 1911-1914. Pp. [viii]+536, 6 maps (5 folding), 2 facsimile plates, appendices, index, errata slip tipped onto p. 339; foxing to edges of leaves, light soiling to fore margins of two pages; 1923. Cohen A69.2(I).a First state; Volume Two: 1915. Pp. 558(last blank), 7 maps (5 folding), 2 page facsimile, appendices, index; name stamp on upper pastedown, margins of a few leaves lightly marked, light crease across one leaf, with small split at fore-edge; 1923. Cohen A69.2(II).a; Volume Three: 1916-1918. Parts I and II (in two volumes) Part I: Pp. 292, 10 maps and plans (4 folding), plus 10 text maps and diagrams, 2 folding tables, with errata slip, appendix; lower corners of boards slightly frayed; fore-edges of leaves lightly marked, a short closed tear fore-edge of one leaf, small piece torn from lower fore corner of one and crease across top fore-corner of three leaves; Part II: Pp. x+293-590(last blank), 7 folding maps, charts and facsimiles, 8 text maps and charts, appendices, index, errata slip tipped in at half-title page; scattered light foxing, top fore-corner of a couple of leaves creased; 1927. Cohen A69.2(III-1, II).a; Volume Four: The Aftermath. Pp. 474, 4 folding maps and charts, and 4 in text, appendix, index, errata slip at p. 9; spine cloth lightly blistered; some scattered foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges, bookseller's sticker at foot of lower pastedown, closed tear from bottom edge into margin of one leaf, and a creased closed tear into fore margin of another; 1929. Cohen A69.2(IV).b. Second state; Volume Five: The Eastern Front. Pp. 368, frontispiece and 7 plates, 10 folding plus numerous text maps, charts, etc., appendices, index; some scattered foxing, occasionally heavy; 1931. Cohen A69.2(V).a; all med. 8vo; navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt, the upper boards ruled and lettered in blind, all volumes lightly worn; Thornton Butterworth, London, 1923-31. First editions, first printings except for Volume four, second state. *Volume Three, Part I, has the author's pre-publication inscription on blank preliminary: 'Warren Fisher from Winston S. Churchill 1.3.27' (the volume was published on 3 March, 1927). Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher (1879-1948) was Head of the Home Civil Service 1919-1939, and was one of the most influential British civil servants of his generation.