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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953.
8o. Half-title. Original red cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Provenance: Pamela Harriman (1920-1997) (inscription, bookplate for her sale, Sotheby's New York, May 19, 1997, lot 109).
FIRST U.S. EDITION, signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Pamela from Winston by Winston." The final volume of Churchill's Second World War memoirs, inscribed to his former daughter-in-law Pamela Digby, who was married to Randolph Churchill from 1939-1946. Later she became the wife of one of Churchill's great contemporaries, W. Averill Harriman, the wartime ambassador to the Soviet Union. Woods A123(a).
8o. Half-title. Original red cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Provenance: Pamela Harriman (1920-1997) (inscription, bookplate for her sale, Sotheby's New York, May 19, 1997, lot 109).
FIRST U.S. EDITION, signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Pamela from Winston by Winston." The final volume of Churchill's Second World War memoirs, inscribed to his former daughter-in-law Pamela Digby, who was married to Randolph Churchill from 1939-1946. Later she became the wife of one of Churchill's great contemporaries, W. Averill Harriman, the wartime ambassador to the Soviet Union. Woods A123(a).