CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life: A Roving Commission . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life: A Roving Commission . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. 8 o . Half-title. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Churchill's mother Jennie Jerome. Illustrated, one folding map. Original purple cloth, spine and covers stamped in gilt (spine faded). In a half morocco slipcase. Provenance : Hugo Hirst, Lord Hirst of Witton (1863-1943) (inscription, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED on the flyleaf to: "Hugo Hirst Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill Dec. 9 1930." Properly regarded by many as Churchill's greatest book, it conveys both his literary genius and his remarkable personality better than any other work in his vast corpus. The account of his schoolboy ordeal learning Latin declensions is a comic masterpiece; his description of his relations with his parents is frank and emotionally revealing; the stories of his military adventures and escape from a Boer prison camp are irresistible page-turners. Harold Nicholson likened the pleasure of reading it to "a beaker of Champagne." Hugo Hirst was a German born industrialist (he changed his name from Hirsch upon obtaining British citizenship) and the proprietor of the General Electric Company. He produced a wide range of electrical products and became famous in England for the progressive and generous nature of labor relations in his firm. He had the grievous misfortune of losing a son in each of the two world wars. Woods A37(a).
CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life: A Roving Commission . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life: A Roving Commission . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. 8 o . Half-title. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Churchill's mother Jennie Jerome. Illustrated, one folding map. Original purple cloth, spine and covers stamped in gilt (spine faded). In a half morocco slipcase. Provenance : Hugo Hirst, Lord Hirst of Witton (1863-1943) (inscription, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED on the flyleaf to: "Hugo Hirst Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill Dec. 9 1930." Properly regarded by many as Churchill's greatest book, it conveys both his literary genius and his remarkable personality better than any other work in his vast corpus. The account of his schoolboy ordeal learning Latin declensions is a comic masterpiece; his description of his relations with his parents is frank and emotionally revealing; the stories of his military adventures and escape from a Boer prison camp are irresistible page-turners. Harold Nicholson likened the pleasure of reading it to "a beaker of Champagne." Hugo Hirst was a German born industrialist (he changed his name from Hirsch upon obtaining British citizenship) and the proprietor of the General Electric Company. He produced a wide range of electrical products and became famous in England for the progressive and generous nature of labor relations in his firm. He had the grievous misfortune of losing a son in each of the two world wars. Woods A37(a).
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