![]() The Churchill Documents, Volume 18 : One Continent Redeemed, January August 1943 by Martin Gilbert. ![]() His impressive body of work includes Churchill: A. Document Volumes: Volumes 6 through 17 (12 volumes). At bottom is a black square bookplate, with white text: "From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill." Above, is a second black and white bookplate. Sir Martin Gilbert, the distinguished official biographer of Churchill, is a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Two personal bookplates are pasted on the front paste down. Churchill with kind regards from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, November 25, 1909, for Nov 30." In his distinctive hand, Churchill has added on the front pastedown: "This was the first copy printed WSC." The front flyleaf reads, in Blunt’s hand, "Winston S. A first edition, first printing, published in 1909, this book was gifted by the author, Blunt, to Winston Churchill. Presented is Winston Churchill’s copy of India Under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Blue boards with cream cloth spines, black embossed titles on spine and front cover, and ¼ leather slipcase. Churchill’s private copy, with respective bookplates. ![]() With dated inscription from author to Winston Churchill. First edition, first printing, first copy printed. ![]()
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