Details
CHURCHILL (SIR WINSTON SPENCER): My Early Life, a roving commission, plates, maps, original cloth, 8vo, London 1958 [cf Woods A37 (a)]
SIGNED BY CHURCHILL and dated 1960. Sold with a letter signed by C.Snelling, Churchill's private secretary, dated 27 April 1960, conveying Churchill's gift of the book in gratitude for the recipient's letter and photographs taken by her father of Churchill during the Boer War. John Middlebrook, photographer for Black and White and the Pall Mall, was in Pretoria soon after Churchill's escape from the Boers
SIGNED BY CHURCHILL and dated 1960. Sold with a letter signed by C.Snelling, Churchill's private secretary, dated 27 April 1960, conveying Churchill's gift of the book in gratitude for the recipient's letter and photographs taken by her father of Churchill during the Boer War. John Middlebrook, photographer for Black and White and the Pall Mall, was in Pretoria soon after Churchill's escape from the Boers
Provenance
By descent to Maj-Gen. W.B.'Sandy' Thomas, CB, DSO, MC* ED Silver Star USA
Special notice
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