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Small illustration inset on the front cover - rubbing and wear to the edges of the covers, a few scattered spots of foxing. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and five internal glossy plates. 2 pages of advertisement in the back.

leather bound, gold leaf, red ribbon bookmark, 136 illustrations.slight discoloration spots on edge of pages

Hardback without dust cover. Clean copy with a few pencil markings on inside of front cover and some discoloring of pages due to age. Still very useable. Slight binding looseness in front, but still in one piece.This is the Palmistry book for the serious collector to own.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."

From Britain's darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the most pivotal event of the twentieth century. Winston Churchill was not only the war's greatest leader, he was the free world's singularly eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny, and it's that voice that animates this six-volume history. Remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it begins with The Gathering Storm; moves on to Their Finest… Read More

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The Daily Telegraph. Spanning four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesar's invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston S. Churchill's most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchill's wilderness years' when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history. The first volume - The Birth of Britain - tells the story of the formation of the British state. The second volume - The… Read More

In French.half the book is of Du Claire's time in Egypt.Half are illustrations of the tomb walls.See photos.

Volume 1, No. 2 of the Brownie Series. Illustrated throughout with engravings plus advertising for Frank Millers Crown Shoe Dressing on the rear inner and outer cover. Pages clean, no names or other markings. A rare vintage London copy.