6 volumes, 8vo, FIRST BRITISH EDITIONS, volume one the Baylis printing (signed with numbers throughout), the rest first printings, CHARLES CARLYLE WOOD'S COPIES, manuscript revisions, deletions and corrections in blue, green, red and black ink and pencil in several hands to c.100 pages (mostly in volume one), VOLUME 3 A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL ("For | C.C. Wood | from | Winston S. Churchill | (Not to be read by you) | 1950) on half-title, with a typed copy of letter from Wood to Churchill dated 3.10.50 loosely inserted ("Thank you very much indeed for the inscribed copy of Volume III. I shall treasure it..."), half-titles, author's note and errata slips in volume one, charts, tables and maps (some folding), original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, top edges red, patterned endpapers, dust-jackets, jackets of volumes 1, 2 and 4 inscribed along top edge of upper panel (with date of receipt [?] or "marked copy"), some light spotting throughout, vol 5 split at hinge between preliminary blank and half-title, some minor soiling to boards, top edges of vols 1-4 faded, dust-jackets worn at extremities, dust-jacket to vol 1 with tear at lower corner of upper panel
6 volumes, 8vo, FIRST BRITISH EDITIONS, volume one the Baylis printing (signed with numbers throughout), the rest first printings, CHARLES CARLYLE WOOD'S COPIES, manuscript revisions, deletions and corrections in blue, green, red and black ink and pencil in several hands to c.100 pages (mostly in volume one), VOLUME 3 A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL ("For | C.C. Wood | from | Winston S. Churchill | (Not to be read by you) | 1950) on half-title, with a typed copy of letter from Wood to Churchill dated 3.10.50 loosely inserted ("Thank you very much indeed for the inscribed copy of Volume III. I shall treasure it..."), half-titles, author's note and errata slips in volume one, charts, tables and maps (some folding), original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, top edges red, patterned endpapers, dust-jackets, jackets of volumes 1, 2 and 4 inscribed along top edge of upper panel (with date of receipt [?] or "marked copy"), some light spotting throughout, vol 5 split at hinge between preliminary blank and half-title, some minor soiling to boards, top edges of vols 1-4 faded, dust-jackets worn at extremities, dust-jacket to vol 1 with tear at lower corner of upper panel
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