THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Comprising: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

First UK edition, first printing. Six volumes. Signed by the author in volume I. With a typed letter signed from Clementine Churchill. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrappers. Top edge purple. Illustrated with maps and diagrams throughout, some folding. Each volume is in very good or better condition, the bindings clean and square, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Topstains a little faded. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked spine-faded dustwrappers that have the occasional repaired closed tear and are otherwise without loss. None of the dustwrappers are price-clipped.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half title of volume one "Inscribed by / Winston S. Churchill [underlined] / 1955". Loosely laid in is a typed letter on 10 Downing Street letterhead from Clementine Churchill, dated 14th January 1955, "I read your letter with much interested. Indeed I do remember "Parkie" very well. If you send me the volume which you would like my husband to inscribed, I will ask him to do it. I wonder if your son remembers my Grandmother?" signed in blue ink by Clementine Churchill underneath which she inscribes "I'm so glad you wrote to me". Also present is a 10 Downing Street card inscribed in blue ink "With Lady Churchill's Compliments / January 24th" and the original mailing envelope. A very attractive first edition set of Churchill's masterpiece, with an impeccable documented provenance, signed by the two time British Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winning author in volume one. (Woods A123(b); Cohen A240.4).

Stock code: 26752

£10,000

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