Item #130695 Winston S. Churchill [the complete Official Biography with matching Companion Volumes]. Winston CHURCHILL, Randolph S. CHURCHILL, Martin GILBERT, first two volumes.

Winston S. Churchill [the complete Official Biography with matching Companion Volumes]

London, Heinemann, 1966 to 1988 (all first editions).

Large octavo, 21 volumes (eight volumes of biography, and 13 companion volumes), complete as issued, with all plates as called for.

Variously cloth and papered boards; trifling signs of use and age (including some light flecking and rubbing); an excellent set with the excellent dustwrappers occasionally a little sunned and rubbed, with a few short tears). Volumes 4 and 8 of the Biography are not from the Uniform Edition.

The biography proper comprises eight volumes, as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1966). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916 (1971). Volume 4: 1917-1922 (1975). Volume 5: 1922-1939 (1976). Volume 6: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (1983). Volume 7: Road to Victory, 1941-1945 (1986). Volume 8: Never Despair, 1945-1965 (1988). The companion series comprises thirteen volumes, as follows. Companion Volume I, Part 1: 1874-1896; and Part 2: 1896-1900 (1967). Companion Volume II, Part 1: 1901-1907; Part 2: 1907-1911; and Part 3: 1911-1914 (1969). Companion Volume III, Part 1: August 1914 - April 1915; and Part 2: May 1915 - December 1916 (1972). Companion Volume IV, Part 1: January 1917 - June 1919; Part 2: July 1919 - March 1921; and Part 3: April 1921 - November 1922 (1977). Companion Volume 5, Part 1: The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929 (1979); Part 2: The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935 (1981); and Part 3: The Coming of War, 1936-1939 (1982). These companion volumes are an extensive source of previously unpublished primary and secondary Churchillian material. [21 items].

Item #130695

Price (AUD): $2,500.00