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CHURCHILL, Sir Winston S. (1874-1965). AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF 28 FIRST EDITIONS, FINELY BOUND. All London. Comprising: The Story of the Malakand Field Force . 1898. Woods A1a. -- The River War . 1899. Two volumes. Woods A2a. -- Savrola . 1900. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Woods A3b.-- London to Ladysmith . 1900. Woods A4. -- Ian Hamilton's March . 1900. Woods A5. -- Lord Randolph Churchill . 1906. Two volumes. Woods A8a. -- My African Journey . 1908. Woods A12. -- Liberalism and the Social Problem. 1909. Woods A15. -- The World Crisis . 1923-1931. Six volumes. Volume III, part 2 with errata slip. Woods A31a. -- My Early Life . 1930. First issue. Woods A37a. -- Thoughts and Adventures . 1932. Woods A39a. [ Bound with :] Painting as a Pastime . 1948. Woods A125. -- Marlborough . 1933-38. Four volumes. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Woods A40a. -- Great Contemporaries . 1937. Woods A43a. -- Arms and the Covenant 1938. Woods A44a. -- Step by Step . 1939. Woods A45. -- Into Battle . 1941. Woods A66a. -- The Unrelenting Struggle . 1942. A89. -- The End of the Beginning . 1945. Woods A94. -- Onwards to Victory . 1944. Woods A101. -- Dawn of Liberation . 1945. Woods A107. -- Victory . 1946. Woods A112. -- The Second World War . 1948-54. Six volumes. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Woods A123b. -- The Sinews of Peace . 1948. Woods A124. -- Europe Unite . 1950. Woods A128. -- In the Balance . 1951. Woods A130. -- Stemming the Tide . 1953. A137. -- A History of the English Speaking Peoples . 1956-1958. Four volumes. Woods A138a. Together 45 volumes, various 8 o (175/222 x 108/151 mm). Illustrations throughout, including portraits, maps, charts, plans, views, some folding, some in color. (Occasional scattered pale spotting, but generally a very clean set.) Uniformly bound in modern dark blue half morocco, pale blue cloth boards, t.e.g., by Bayntun. A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF CHURCHILL'S BOOKS, INCLUDING ALL OF HIS MAJOR WORKS. The set begins with Churchill's first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force , made up of dispatches he wrote in India for the Daily Telegraph and Allahabad Pioneer while serving under General Sir Bindon Blood. The set continues through to his final work, A History of the English Speaking Peoples . The consummate statesman, Churchill was also a fine writer, as evidenced by the quantity of important works here represented: the haunting account of the reconquest of the Sudan in The River War , his biographies of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill , and Marlborough , and his memoirs of the World Wars, The Great Crisis and The Second World War . (45)