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SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
My Early Life. A Roving Commission, London: Thornton Butterworth, October 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY, front blank inscribed: "To Geoffrey Hyde from Winston Churchill, Dec. 23. 1930," plates and maps (some spotting, mainly affecting first few leaves), original purple cloth (spine faded). [Woods A37a]
With an accompanying typed letter signed from the editor of the News Chronicle to Geoffrey Hyde, 4°, stating that he encloses the copy of Churchill's autographed work My Early Life as a consolation prize for reaching the final in the Winston Churchill Essay Competition, London, 29 December 1930.
My Early Life. A Roving Commission, London: Thornton Butterworth, October 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY, front blank inscribed: "To Geoffrey Hyde from Winston Churchill, Dec. 23. 1930," plates and maps (some spotting, mainly affecting first few leaves), original purple cloth (spine faded). [Woods A37a]
With an accompanying typed letter signed from the editor of the News Chronicle to Geoffrey Hyde, 4°, stating that he encloses the copy of Churchill's autographed work My Early Life as a consolation prize for reaching the final in the Winston Churchill Essay Competition, London, 29 December 1930.