Arms and the Covenant. Speeches ... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 (first edition).
Octavo, 466 pages plus a frontispiece portrait.
Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a thin double-line border in blind on the front panel; cloth slightly marked, a little sunned (confined mainly to the spine), and lightly bumped at the extremities; top edge dyed blue, with all edges now a little tanned; half-title and last page (a blank) tanned, presumably as ever; a very good copy (internally excellent).
'Churchill has, during the six years 1932-38, achieved an extraordinary ascendancy in the House of Commons.... This book ... comprises more than forty of the speeches which he has delivered during this time on the paramount topics of foreign affairs and national defence. These speeches reveal two main consistent themes. Since as far back as 1932 Mr Churchill has been warning the House of Commons and the country of the rapidity and scale of German rearmament and of the need for Britain to rearm in the face of that menace ... as the last few speeches show, he is still an optimist and believes that a way is still open whereby the peace of Europe may be saved'. Woods/ICS A44(a); Langworth, pages 190-193 ('A single impression of 5,000 was issued, but not all were sold ... According to Woods, 3,381 were sold at the original price').
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$650.00