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CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON. Arms and the Covenant. Speeches...Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London: George G. Harrap [1938]. 8vo, original blue cloth, spine a trifle faded, tiny abrasion on front cover, title-page very slightly foxed, dust jacket (nickle-size circular hole in spine). FIRST EDITION of this collection of Chruchill's speeches on foreign affairs and national defence, frontispiece portrait, PRESENTATION COPY TO SUMNER WELLES, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Sumner Welles from Winston S. Churchill, Admiralty, March 1940" (Chruchill was First Lord of the Admiralty; he became Prime MInister later in the yuear). At this time Sumner Welles, United States Under-Secretary of State, was in Europe on a fact-finding mission (and rumoured "peace-initiative") as President Roosevelt's special envoy, meeting with government leaders (Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, et al). It was at a meeting with Winston Churchill at the Admiralty on 12 March that Churchill presented him with this copy (actually in very good condition) of Arms and the Covenant - a particularly appropriate book. With typed notes by P.W. Townshend Somerville concerning Welles' mission and his meeting with Churchill, 3 pp., 8vo, in binder. (2)

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CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON. Arms and the Covenant. Speeches...Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London: George G. Harrap [1938]. 8vo, original blue cloth, spine a trifle faded, tiny abrasion on front cover, title-page very slightly foxed, dust jacket (nickle-size circular hole in spine). FIRST EDITION of this collection of Chruchill's speeches on foreign affairs and national defence, frontispiece portrait, PRESENTATION COPY TO SUMNER WELLES, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Sumner Welles from Winston S. Churchill, Admiralty, March 1940" (Chruchill was First Lord of the Admiralty; he became Prime MInister later in the yuear). At this time Sumner Welles, United States Under-Secretary of State, was in Europe on a fact-finding mission (and rumoured "peace-initiative") as President Roosevelt's special envoy, meeting with government leaders (Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, et al). It was at a meeting with Winston Churchill at the Admiralty on 12 March that Churchill presented him with this copy (actually in very good condition) of Arms and the Covenant - a particularly appropriate book. With typed notes by P.W. Townshend Somerville concerning Welles' mission and his meeting with Churchill, 3 pp., 8vo, in binder. (2)