1983 · Boston
by Churchill, Winston S.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. Chartwell Edition. All six volumes are in fine condition in recent 1/2 blue leather and light tan cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a recessed paper label on the front boards. The end papers are decorated with maps of Europe and the Pacific theater. All volumes are octavos measuring 9 by 6 inches with a light yellow stain to the top edges of the text blocks. This stain and the absence of the blind embossed dot at the lower corner of the rear boards distinguishes this set as not being one of the more frequently seen Book-of-The-Month Club printings. The set includes: Vol. I is The Gathering Storm, with 784 pages; Vol. II is Their Finest Hour, with 751 pages, The Grand Alliance, with 903 pages is volume III; Vol. IV is The Hinge of Fate, with 1000 pages; Volume V is Closing the Ring, with 749 pages; and, Volume VI is Triumph and Tragedy, with 800 pages. An extremely clean and handsome set with no prior owner's names, dates or notations. (Inventory #: TB28849)