CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932. 8 o . Half-title, frontispiece. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, spine gilt, spine and covers stamped in blind (small tear to cloth at top of spine, rubbed). Provenance : Alfred Duff-Cooper (1890-1954) (inscription, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHURCHILL: "To Alfred Duff-Cooper from Winston S. Churchill 1932." An engaging collection of essays on everything from the Sydney Street siege, negotiating the Irish Treaty with Michael Collins an evaluation of political cartoonists and his thoughts on "Painting as a Pastime." It also includes Churchill's famous "wilderness years" essay, "Shall We All Commit Suicide?" Duff Cooper was an important friend and political ally of Churchill. A fierce opponent of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, he resigned his Cabinet post as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1938. Churchill brought him into his war cabinet in 1941, and made him minister in charge of Far Eastern affairs, based in Singapore. Duff-Cooper's reputation dipped after the fall of Singapore, but revived with his work as ambassador to the Free French in Algeria and then as the immensely popular first British ambassador in Paris after the Liberation. A fine association. Woods A39(a).
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures . London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932. 8 o . Half-title, frontispiece. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, spine gilt, spine and covers stamped in blind (small tear to cloth at top of spine, rubbed). Provenance : Alfred Duff-Cooper (1890-1954) (inscription, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHURCHILL: "To Alfred Duff-Cooper from Winston S. Churchill 1932." An engaging collection of essays on everything from the Sydney Street siege, negotiating the Irish Treaty with Michael Collins an evaluation of political cartoonists and his thoughts on "Painting as a Pastime." It also includes Churchill's famous "wilderness years" essay, "Shall We All Commit Suicide?" Duff Cooper was an important friend and political ally of Churchill. A fierce opponent of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, he resigned his Cabinet post as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1938. Churchill brought him into his war cabinet in 1941, and made him minister in charge of Far Eastern affairs, based in Singapore. Duff-Cooper's reputation dipped after the fall of Singapore, but revived with his work as ambassador to the Free French in Algeria and then as the immensely popular first British ambassador in Paris after the Liberation. A fine association. Woods A39(a).
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