CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life, A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930

CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life, A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, second issue (220 x 139mm.) 16 plates, including photographic frontispiece, 1 folding map to rear. (Toning, occasional browning, a 3-inch closed tear to p.163.) Original pink cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and blind-stamped (fading to spine and wear to spine ends, extremities rubbed, minor stain to lower cover). Note: 12 lines of Churchill titles verso the half-title. An entertaining account of the author’s early life and his most widely read book. Provenance: D.I.C. Ashton-Cross (bookplate to front pastedown); from the estate of Trevor Hives, thence by descent.