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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill . London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. 8 o . Half-title, frontispiece photograph of Lord Randolph Churchill, tipped-in facsimiles. Red cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. (some offsetting from facsimiles, slight fading to spine).
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill . London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. 8 o . Half-title, frontispiece photograph of Lord Randolph Churchill, tipped-in facsimiles. Red cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. (some offsetting from facsimiles, slight fading to spine). SECOND EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER TO HIS AMERICAN STOCKBROKER: "To William C. Van Antwerp from Winston S. Churchill Sept. 28, 1929. Yosemite Valley." The day after he inscribed this book, Churchill wrote home to his wife Clementine about his new American friend: "I have also made friends with Mr. Van Antwerp & his wife. He is a little old man--one of the heads of a far reaching stock-broking firm--a great friend of England and a reader of all my books--quite an old fashioned figure. He is going to look after some of my money for me. His firm has the best information about the American Market & I have opened an account with them in which I have placed £3,000. He will manipulate it with the best possible chance of success...I am sure it will prove wise." It didn't. An inveterate gambler, Churchill could not resist plunging into the speculative craze that gripped America in the fall of 1929. Just a month later, of course, it all came crashing down and Churchill lost heavily. He was even in New York City on Black Tuesday and saw a man jump to his death "under my very window" at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel. Woods A8(b).